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In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Joseph DiGenova gave a stark assessment of what led to FBI Director James Comey’s recent decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, after an investigation into Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal led to the discovery of thousands of emails on the computer of Weiner’s estranged wife, top Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin. The picture painted by DiGenova, based on what he says are discussions with current and former FBI agents, is one of “seething” rage inside the Bureau...

Former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner is cooperating with authorities in the FBI investigation of his laptop that contains emails that prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reopen its probe into Hillary Clinton's use of an unauthorized email server. The news that Weiner is cooperating, reported by Fox News' Bret Baier on Sunday, would help law enforcement with the investigation, since officials didn't yet have a warrant to read through the material found on the device. Though FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Friday his agency found emails related to Hillary Clinton's private email server, he didn't yet have a...

Whispers of "payback" are being directed at Hillary Clinton after she decried as "unprecedented" the surprise FBI revival of its probe of her email scandal. That's because 24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a "culture of corruption."

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Huma Abedin swore under oath that she had given up all the devices she believed contained State Department emails on them, it has been revealed. The information came to light just a day after it was revealed the FBI found government-related emails on a laptop Abedin shared with her disgraced husband, Anthony Weiner. Detectives seized the laptop, which contains 'tens of thousands of emails', in a separate investigation involving alleged sexts Weiner sent to a 15-year-old girl. In June 2016, Abedin said she had looked for all the devices she may have used to send and receive emails while working...

Campaign officials said Clinton took the news in stride — “like a champ,” one said. If she was bothered, she was determined not to show it when she stepped off the plane. Reporters standing under the wing shouted questions, but she just smiled and waved before stepping into an SUV and being whisked to her first rally of the day. Clinton didn’t say a word about the FBI investigation in Cedar Rapids, nor did she mention it at a second event at a Des Moines school. By now, new details had emerged. [Snip] As she often does, Abedin was traveling...

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told people she is unsure how her emails could have ended up on a device she viewed as her husband’s computer, the seizure of which has reignited the Clinton email investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation and civil litigation over the matter. The person, who would not discuss the case unless granted anonymity, said Abedin was not a regular user of the computer, and even when she agreed to turn over emails to the State Department for federal records purposes, her lawyers did not search it for materials, not believing...

We knew there could be a big October surprise before this bizarre and unpopular election finally came to an end. But who knew it would come from e-mails found on a device used by former Rep. Anthony Weiner that was confiscated by the FBI after he sexted an underage woman -- an act that cost him his job, his income, and his marriage? As I pondered this on Friday afternoon, I had a faint recollection of Winston Churchill describing a tough loss in an MP election. Hat tip to Susan Varga, who located this Churchill gem: “In a twinkling of...

The set of With All Due Respect was a sad place today due to the shocking revelation that the computer seized in the Anthony Weiner probe has caused FBI Director James Comey to announce that he is reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. In addition to being irked at  Comey, Halperin and Heilemann seemed to be searching for lifeline assurances that this probe might soon go away and have little or no affect on the upcoming election in eleven days. Of course, the problem with that hope is that any news story involving Anthony Weiner is almost guaranteed to...

The Republican presidential candidate shall henceforth be known as the “NostraDonaldmus” based on this prescient tweet from August 2015:  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump saw this coming from a mile away, fingering Weiner as a potential national security threat all the way back in August of 2015. “It came out that Huma Abedin knows all about Hillary’s private illegal emails,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Huma’s PR husband, Anthony Weiner, will tell the world.” Fox News And as the Instapundit pointed out, somewhere Andrew Breitbart is looking down and laughing. Andrew, who was indirectly responsible for giving the world the first...

The announcement on Friday that the FBI is investigating a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails suggests the bureau may have uncovered something criminal, a 35-year FBI veteran tells TheWrap. “This letter is a shocker,” said James Wedick, who headed the FBI’s corruption squad in Sacramento. “Obviously they stumbled upon something that suggests criminality.” In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI director James Comey explained that the bureau “has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” Comey did not explain where the new emails came from, only saying only that they...

Last month, while his wife was at work, and his 4-year-old son Jordan Zain slept beside him, Anthony Weiner, aka Carlos Danger, spent the evening sexting a picture of his engorged manhood to a shapely Trump supporter. Weiner got sloppy and got caught. Recently, the world’s most famous sexter was caught again. For months, while his wife Huma was busy administering CPR to Hillary Clinton, Weiner, with too much free time on his hands, was sending lewd messages to a school-aged girl. This time, the object of the sext addict’s on-line attention was a 15-year-old teenager from North Carolina.

(snip)Clinton preferred to read documents on paper rather than on a screen, emails and other files were often printed out and provided to her either at her office or home, where they were delivered in a diplomatic pouch (snip)Abedin, like many State Department officials, found the government network technology to be cumbersome, and she had great trouble printing documents there(snip). As a result, she sometimes transferred emails from her unclassified State Department account to either her Yahoo account or her account on Clinton’s server,(snip)aIt is not clear whether she ever transferred official emails to the account she used for her...

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Friday that he is troubled by the way the FBI has handled the discovery of new emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server investigation and called for more information to be released. "When you do this 11 days before a presidential election and you don’t provide many details, but details are apparently being given by the FBI to the press, this is very, very troubling, and we hope that the director— and we really think that he should give a clearer accounting of exactly whats going on right now," Kaine said in an...

Emails in Anthony Weiner Inquiry Jolt Hillary Clinton’s Campaign By ADAM GOLDMAN and ALAN RAPPEPORTOCT. 28, 2016 WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide. In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said the emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, which law enforcement officials said was an F.B.I. investigation into illicit text messages from Mr. Weiner to...

In the aftermath of the so-called Cocktober surprise unveiled this afternoon by the FBI when the bureau announced it was reopening a probe into Hillary Clinton's email server because "new evidence has come to light" after "materials" were found on equipment belonging to Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin, the question on everyone's lips - and certainly Hillary Clinton's and most democrats - is why did the FBI do this now, 11 days before the election, in a way that did not even coordinate with the White House? One opinion belongs to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, who just days after his...

Hillary Clinton sits on her Throne of Power in the Fortress of Glass, glancing at the ceiling and sharpening her hammer. She has been starting to hope. Earlier today she sent out one or two emails to old friends in Washington intimating they should “get drinks when I’m back.” She has started to say “when” more than “if.” She keeps seeing the number “45” everywhere she looks — records, temperatures — and when she does, she smiles a little to herself, as if it’s an omen. At the back of her closet there is a checklist of Things To Accomplish...

CARL BERNSTEIN: Well, there's no question that the e-mails have always been the greatest threat to her candidacy for president, that her conduct in regard to the e-mails is really indefensible and if there was going to be more information that came out, it was the one thing, as I said on the air last night, actually that could really perhaps affect this election. We don't know what this means yet except that it's a real bombshell. And it is unthinkable that the Director of the FBI would take this action lightly, that he would put this letter forth to...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Oh, wow. Look at this. The FBI is reopening the investigation into Clinton's email use! Holy smokes. Wait 'til they hear about that on CNN. Holy smokes! Whoa. Now my mind's going crazy here wondering what could be behind this. I don't have any more information than that. (interruption) They did, huh? They found some additional emails pertinent to the investigation. The FBI is reopening the investigation into Clinton's email use. They found some additional emails pertinent to the investigation. CNN still doesn't know yet. (laughing) Either that or they are going to suppress the news. They...

That man ran for NYC mayor in 2005, 2009, and 2013. He almost won the 2005 Democratic mayoral nomination, but had to drop out because he did not want to cause a racial discord with the New York Democratic Party against Fernando Ferrer. He ran again in 2009 only to drop out because he was a loser. He ran again in 2013, after his sex scandal and couldn't even get far. What a loser.