Justice Department Obtains Warrant to Review Clinton Aide’s Emails

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By MATT APUZZO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ADAM GOLDMAN
OCT. 30, 2016

WASHINGTON — Federal investigators have obtained a warrant to begin searching a large cache of emails belonging to a top aide to Hillary Clinton, federal law enforcement officials said Sunday, as prosecutors and F.B.I. agents scrambled to review as much of the information as possible before Election Day ...

Late Friday and early Saturday, law enforcement officials said there was no chance the email review could be completed before Election Day ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/us/politics/justice-department-warrant-clinton-abedin-fbi.html

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1. FBI obtains search warrant to search newly discovered emails

By Matt Zapotosky, Ellen Nakashima and Rosalind S. Helderman
October 30 at 1:15 PM

... One official said the total number of emails recovered in the Weiner investigation is close to 650,000 — though that reflects many emails that are not in any way relevant to the Clinton investigation ...

Abedin has told people that she is unsure how her emails could have ended up on a device she viewed as belonging to her husband, according to a person familiar with the investigation and civil litigation over the matter ...

n announcement from the FBI in early October, when the emails were discovered, might have been less politically damaging for Clinton than one coming less than two weeks before the Nov. 8 election. It is also unclear what agents have been doing in the intervening time ...

A Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll found that more than 6 in 10 likely voters said the FBI’s announcement would make no difference in their vote. A little more than 3 in 10 said the news made them less likely to support Clinton, though about two-thirds of those were Republicans or Republican-leaning independents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agents-knew-of-clinton-related-emails-weeks-before-director-was-briefed/2016/10/30/657ed266-9eb1-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html

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2. FBI Obtains Warrant To Search Emails That Renewed Look Into Clinton Server

October 30, 20163:20 PM ET
Arnie Seipel
Carrie Johnson
MEG ANDERSON

... It is not clear whether any of the newly discovered emails were sent or received by Clinton.

Another key question is whether the documents are copies of material already reviewed by the FBI during its year-long investigation into Clinton's email server, or whether they are new — and whether they contain classified material ...

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told NPR's Michel Martin he was "mystified" with the development. Gonzales said the Justice Department typically has the last word as to whether or not to move forward with prosecution ... Gonzales said .. "The FBI director has been out on his own, quite frankly, with respect to this investigation" ...

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/30/499960392/5-things-we-know-about-the-fbi-clinton-email-inquiry-and-4-things-we-dont

[spanone]

3. this is disgraceful. in the heat of an election. coup dètat

wow, the doj working overtime on sunday....getting a judge to rule....ain't that big gubmint at it's finest....

[Peaches999]

8. Did you want Loretta Lynch to legalize pedophilia?

The subject of this investigation is Anthony Wiener and he needs to rot in jail

[Bear Creek]

4. Already read them

The emails according to another article I read earlier today said they were turned in back in April. So why the horse and pony show now? Seems like the only thing going on here is someone trying to influence this election. Why have they not released Trump's Russian ties. Trump denies that Russians hacked emails even though he had been told by our national security that it had been traced back to Russia.

[LisaL]

5. They had these emails for a while. They only now obtained the warrant.

Before they even obtained the warrant, Comey tells congress about the emails. He refused to tell anything about any potential investigation into Trump.
So, what is one supposed to think here?

[Bear Creek]

7. Server

The ones from Clinton's server have already been read by them. This is a misrepresentation and was done on purpose. Where's Trump's tax returns? Why hasn't the FBI told the truth about Trump's Russian envolement.

[Shrike47]

6. Since it took them only 2 days to get the warrant, they stalled this to cause trouble.

Comey timed it to be too close to the election to read all the e-mails. On purpose, it appears. Hatch Act.