Apple was not only trapped in legal requests addressed to Democratic politicians, it seems. The sources of New York Times affirm Apple’s Subpoeno Department of Justice to obtain information about the former President Trump White House lawyer, Don McGahn, in February 2018. It is not clear what the FBI was looking for or if McGahn was The focus, but officials issued Apple to notify the Council for a while, only told him about the request in May of this year.

According to reports, the Company did not say what he shared with the Government, or describes the nature of the case. There was a series of possible problems at stake. Trump was angry with McGahn at that time about Russia’s research by Robert Mueller and the flight January 2018, but the times considered it unlikely. However, the request could also have caused the Mueller investigation itself (McGahn was the main lawyer of Trump Camp Camp Camp Camping in 2016). The former manager of the Trump campaign, Paul Manafart, also faced charges of fraud only one day before the citation.

We have asked for a comment to Apple. McGahn’s lawyer declined the comment.

The news occurred only days after the word Trump-Era Doj had requested the information from the Apple account for at least two Democratic politicians, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, around the same time. In both cases, the concerns have swirled, not only around who was directed, but how, what did the agents learn? The technology firm recently instituted a limit of 25 identifiers by request in an attempt to prevent governments from requesting excessive amounts of data.

The incident also reinforces concerns about the publication of applications. Technical companies have pressed for greater transparency for years, and cases like this can explain why. While it is unlikely that Apple could have shared specific details for the short-term McGahn case, the years of GAG orders certainly did not help attempts to be open about government surveillance demands.