US Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has interviewed a cyber expert, who claims he was “recruited to collude with the Russians” to meddle in the US 2016 presidential election.
Mueller’s interview, conducted weeks ago and revealed on Tuesday, is part of an investigation into Moscow’s alleged role in the 2016 vote, which made Donald Trump the country’s president, Business Insider reported.
Matt Tait, a former information security specialist with the British Government Communications Headquarters, was recruited by a longtime GOP operative tied to the Trump campaign, Peter W. Smith, who later committed suicide.
“Smith implied that he was a well-connected Republican political operative,” Tait wrote in an article released on lawfareblog.com in June, adding that the GOPer believed “that Clinton’s private email server had been hacked—in his view almost certainly both by the Russian government and likely by multiple other…