Senior Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin did not know that her emails ended up on her estranged husband Anthony Weiner’s computer, NBC reported Monday.
“She only learned for the first time on Friday, from press reports, of the possibility that a laptop belonging to Mr. Weiner could contain emails of hers,” Abedin’s lawyer, Karen Dunn, said in a statement to NBC.
In a surprise Friday afternoon announcement, FBI director James Comey informed members of Congress that emails found on Weiner’s laptop during an investigation into his exchanges with a 15-year-old girl could be related to their probe into Clinton’s private email server.
While the emails’ pertinence to the Clinton probe remains unclear, the Justice Department on Monday informed lawmakers that the agency was working “as expeditiously as possible” to investigate them.
Dunn said that Abedin has not yet been contacted by the FBI, but that she “complied fully and voluntarily” with prior investigations into the server and would continue to do so.
Read Dunn’s full statement below via NBC’s Bradd Jaffy:
Statement from Huma Abedin’s lawyer pic.twitter.com/bkFUX8Mxmp
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) November 1, 2016
OMG. Weiner was stalking Huma. What a strange, strange dude he must be.
So these partisan asshats at the FBI didn’t even bother to ask Huma for her permission, just went straight for a warrant – with the intent of making it appear she was in some way being uncooperative and had something to hide, which is 100% false. Seriously, way to go, FBI. Not playing politics, you say? I call Bull. Shit!
I’ve always believed that if you investigate anyone long enough, and closely enough, you can find some form of wrongdoing. That’s what police states do. In our democracy, you should conduct a particular investigation for a reasonable period of time and if nothing shows up, it’s time to move on to other matters. Like Trump being an agent for the Russians.
Exactly correct. The Republicans have been investigating two people for 25 years. In effect, they have created a de facto bill of attainder against the Clintons. This was one of the reasons we declared independence!
So one of the following is true:
A) Weiner on his own got remote access to her email account and copied over 650,000 (or whatever the number is) emails to his laptop;
B) Abedin is lying and for some reason herself transferred or sent many thousands of emails to Weiner’s laptop;
C) Somebody else got remote access to Abedin’s email account and sent/transferred thousands of emails to Weiner’s laptop.
None of these possible explanations address why this alleged transfer happened.
Of course, given the rumors that the FBI is full of agents who have an irrational hatred of Clinton and will do anything to sabotage her, maybe it’s:
D) The FBI is lying about the number of emails, and the actual number is far smaller and more reflective of what a spouse might send to her spouse in the course of a troubled marriage.