{"id":86928,"date":"2017-10-18T20:14:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T00:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86928"},"modified":"2017-10-18T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T00:15:40","slug":"how-did-1000s-of-government-documents-end-up-on-anthony-weiners-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86928","title":{"rendered":"How did 1000s of government documents end up on Anthony Weiner&#8217;s laptop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Thousands of govt docs found on laptop of sex offender married to top Clinton adviser<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_86960\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59e763a0fc7e9318338b4569.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86960\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59e763a0fc7e9318338b4569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59e763a0fc7e9318338b4569.jpg 790w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59e763a0fc7e9318338b4569-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59e763a0fc7e9318338b4569-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huma Abedin (R) \u00a9 Justin Sullivan \/ Getty Images \/ AFP<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>The State Department admitted the FBI discovered nearly 3,000 government documents on a laptop belonging to the ex-husband of Hillary Clinton\u2019s top adviser, Huma Abedin, conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch said.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation was in response to a May 2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/document-archive\/jw-v-state-00687-all-clinton-emails\/\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0filed by Judicial Watch against the State Department after it failed to respond to a Freedom of Information request (FOIA) seeking all emails of official State Department business received or sent by Abedin between January 2009 and February 2013\u00a0<em>\u201cusing a non-state.gov email address.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Judicial Watch: Anthony Weiner\u2019s Laptop Had 2,800 Government Documents from Huma Abedin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tFoXvy3VC2\">https:\/\/t.co\/tFoXvy3VC2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchellvii\/status\/920676140242620416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is a disturbing development. Our experience with Abedin\u2019s emails suggest these Weiner laptop documents will include classified and other sensitive materials,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement, naming Abedin\u2019s ex-husband, Anthony Weiner.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen will the Justice Department do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton\u2019s and Huma Abedin\u2019s obvious violations of law?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The documents were discovered on Weiner\u2019s laptop after devices were seized as part of an FBI investigation into an allegation that he had engaged in \u2018sexting\u2019 with a 15-year-old girl. The discovery of the State Department emails led then-FBI Director James Comey to reopen an investigation late in the 2016 US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2016, Comey, exonerated Clinton following the probe into whether the former secretary of state\u2019s private servers had been used to transmit or store classified information. Comey said he referred the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began as a referral from the Intelligence Community Inspector General in connection with Clinton\u2019s use of a personal email service during her time as secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>Comey said from a group of 30,000 emails, 110 in 52 chains had been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. \u00a0Eight of those chains contained information that was\u00a0<em>\u2018top secret\u2019<\/em>\u00a0at the time they were sent, 36 contained\u00a0<em>\u2018secret\u2019<\/em>information, and eight contained\u00a0<em>\u2018confidential\u2019<\/em>\u00a0information.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAlthough we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,\u201d<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0Comey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\"><\/div>\n<p>After finding more documents on Weiner\u2019s laptop, Comey alerted Congress that the agency had reopened its investigation. However, three days before the presidential election the FBI announced that it had found no evidence of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>In August,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/press-room\/press-releases\/judicial-watch-huma-abedin-emails-reveal-transmission-classified-information-clinton-foundation-donors-receiving-special-treatment-clinton-state-department\/\">Judicial Watch<\/a>\u00a0released 1,600-plus pages of emails the State Department had turned over under the group\u2019s FOIA lawsuit. The documents included 91 email exchanges that were not previously handed over to the State Department, for a total of 530 emails that were not included in Clinton\u2019s initial 55,000-page disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch said the State Department is processing 100,000 emails Clinton failed to disclose when she served as secretary of state, some of which were sent by Abedin and found on Weiner\u2019s laptop. Clinton attempted to delete 33,000 emails from her non-government server. The State Department is currently checking about 500 pages per month, following a court order. Judicial Watch said at this rate the documents won\u2019t be fully available until at least 2020.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/407120-fbi-found-3k-docs-weiner\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/407120-fbi-found-3k-docs-weiner\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of govt docs found on laptop of sex offender married to top Clinton adviser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}