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Yesterday, we reported that the FBI has found “tens of thousands of emails<\/a>” belonging to Huma Adein on Anthony Weiner’s computer, raising questions how practical it is that any conclusive finding will be available or made by the FBI in the few days left before the elections<\/p>\n Now, according to the WSJ<\/a>, it appears that Federal agents are preparing to scour roughly 650,000 emails that, as we reported moments ago were discovered weeks ago on the laptop of Anthony Weiner<\/a><\/strong>, to see how many relate to a prior probe of Hillary Clinton\u2019s email use, as metadata on the device suggests there may be thousands sent to or from the private server that the Democratic nominee used while she was secretary of state, <\/strong>according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n As the WSJ adds, the review will take weeks at a minimum to determine whether those messages are work-related <\/strong>emails between Huma Abedin, a close Clinton aide and the estranged wife of Mr. Weiner, and State Department officials; how many are duplicates of emails already reviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and whether they include either classified information or important new evidence in the Clinton email probe, which FBI officials call \u201cMidyear<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n And, as we further reported earlier today<\/a>, the FBI has had to await a court order to begin reviewing the emails, because they were uncovered in an unrelated probe of Mr. Weiner, and that order was delayed for reasons that remain unclear.<\/p>\n More stunning is just how many emails were found on Weiner’s computer. And while one can only imagine the content of some of the more persona ones, the WSJ writes that the latest development began in early October when New York-based FBI officials notified Andrew McCabe, the bureau\u2019s second-in-command, that while investigating Mr. Weiner for possibly sending sexually charged messages to a minor, they had recovered a laptop with 650,000 emails. <\/strong>Many, they said, were from the accounts of Ms. Abedin, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n Those emails stretched back years, these people said, and were on a laptop that both Mr. Weiner and Ms. Abedin used and that hadn\u2019t previously come up in the Clinton email probe. Ms. Abedin said in late August that the couple were separating.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The FBI had searched the computer while looking for child pornography<\/strong>, people familiar with the matter said, but the warrant they used didn\u2019t give them authority to search for matters related to Mrs. Clinton\u2019s email arrangement at the State Department. Mr. Weiner has denied sending explicit or indecent messages to the teenager.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As reported yesterday, it appears that there are potentially tens of thousands of Abedin linked emails on Weiner’s computer:<\/p>\n In their initial review of the laptop, the metadata showed many messages, apparently in the thousands, that were either sent to or from the private email server at Mrs. Clinton\u2019s home that had been the focus of so much investigative effort for the FBI<\/strong>. Senior FBI officials decided to let the Weiner investigators proceed with a closer examination of the metadata on the computer, and report back to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The WSJ then connects the dots between how the Weiner emails were linked to the Clinton reopening of the Clinton probe, despite Loretta Lynch’s and the DOJ’s vocal urges not to do so<\/a>:<\/p>\n At a meeting early last week of senior Justice Department and FBI officials, a member of the department\u2019s senior national-security staff asked for an update on the Weiner laptop, the people familiar with the matter said. At that point, officials realized that no one had acted to obtain a warrant, these people said. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr. McCabe then instructed the email investigators to talk to the Weiner investigators and see whether the laptop\u2019s contents could be relevant to the Clinton email probe, these people said. After the investigators spoke, the agents agreed it was potentially relevant. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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