Posted on 10/30/2016 6:16:14 PM PDT by drewh
The FBI stumbled upon a trove of emails from one of Hillary Clinton's top aides weeks ago, law enforcement officials told CNN Sunday.
But FBI Director James Comey didn't disclose the discovery until Friday, raising questions about why the information was kept under wraps and then released only days before the election.
The timeline behind the discovery of the emails came into greater clarity Sunday. Investigators took possession of multiple computers related to the inquiry of Anthony Weiner in early October, U.S. law enforcement officials said. Weiner is Abedin's estranged husband and is being probed about alleged sexting with a purportedly underage girl.
Technical experts at the FBI began procedures to catalogue the emails found on one of the computers and soon found emails belonging to Abedin. The discovery surprised investigators, triggering legal issues because the search warrant was limited to the sexting case. That's why the Justice Department sought the new search warrant.
Senior officials at the FBI, including Andrew McCabe, the FBI deputy director, were briefed on the issue. By mid-October, Comey learned investigators in the Weiner case might have found something that could have an impact on the now-closed probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server, according to one law enforcement official. Comey was told investigators were still trying to figure out how many emails existed and their pertinence to the Clinton probe. Senior Justice Department officials were briefed on the situation about a week ago and Comey was given a full briefing Thursday, the officials said, triggering his decision to notify members of Congress Friday that the FBI was reviewing emails potentially related to Clinton's server.
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CNN trying to push that this is all political, and nevr once looking at the criminality.
CNN sucks.
McCabe is mentioned ONCE!
Still waiting to hear what Judge actually issued this new warrant.
I will be shocked if it was a DEM
everyone is covering their butts now...
McCabe booted it too! They’re gonna have to build a new jail to hold ‘em all!
Trump about to speak live in NM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjqAsbufsTI
31,000 watching stream now
The answer is simple. The agents working on the Weiner case, who were not even FBI, discovered the emails. It took them a long time to work their way up the chain of bureaucracy to Comey.
There is just no making these people happy...
CNN is pissed that they no longer Control the narrative.
Trump has ‘em ALL scrambling. Help us Obi-Wan. I love it.
rats fleeing a sinking ship.
GITMO has plenty of room...and is the right place for all of them!
Comey notified Congress one day after his briefing. Where is the delay?????
Information dissemination spillage (especially via email) is pretty hard to contain. The best chance of doing so is to catch it early and work to nip its continued dissemination in the bud. It’s a lot like the Ebola virus. If you let people with Ebola wander around aimlessly passing Ebola around aimlessly then it can get out of control. How Hillary could’ve solved this problem was from the first instance she had a classified email get loose to have the matter addressed immediately and completely. However she didn’t so the results are now part of the ongoing saga that is still in process of unfolding.
Key takeaways from this report:
- Agents “saw enough” of the emails to believe there is classified info
- Agents “saw enough” of the emails to thing these may NOT be emails previously reviewed
- Agents believe it is likely to included deleted emails from Hillary server
The discovery of new emails never seen before with classified info suggests some or all of the 33,000 deleted emails may be here and provides evidence of obstruction of justice.
I’m wondering about this too. The initial information we had was that Lynch was preventing the FBI from obtainina a search warrant. With that in mind, did she change her mind and give permission? Or, if she didn’t, did the FBI simply go around her?
make that 31,001 now. I just tuned in.
An earlier post insinuated that it was the rank and file who held back to paint him and Hillary in a corner where neither could could safely maneuver.
the resignations have been piling up on his desk and his wife has been putting pressure on him
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3886942/Resignation-letters-piling-disaffected-FBI-agents-wife-urging-admit-wrong-Director-Comey-jumped-chance-reopen-Hillary-investigation.html#ixzz4Oc92DXlw
‘everyone is covering their butts now...’
Indeed, If the emails were discovered a week or so ago, there would have been time and probable cause to get a bunch of wiretaps on all kinds of people, just waiting for them to panic and email themselves to jail.
What a time to be a criminal defense attorney in the DC area.
Callers will have to take a number and we will call you back.
TWB
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