Huma lawyers up: Exiled aide's attorneys are set to meet the FBI as she pleads ignorance over emails on her sexting husband's laptop and faces jail if

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[h=1]Huma lawyers up: Exiled aide's attorneys are set to meet the FBI as she pleads ignorance over emails on her sexting husband's laptop and faces jail if it's proved she lied[/h]

• PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Huma seen at Clinton campaign HQ in Brooklyn
• Questions are mounting over the long-time aide's future in the campaign
• It would allow the FBI to search through Antony Weiner's laptop
• The latest poll says the gap between Trump and Clinton is just one point
• A third of voters said the FBI's announcement has affected their support
• Clinton's friends and allies are urging her to distance herself from Abedin
• Would be a drastic move with just eight days before Election Day
• Abedin has pleaded ignorance and said she rarely uses husband's laptop
• She has reportedly told her colleagues she had no idea how the email's ended up on his laptop
• Clinton has been campaigning in Florida without Abedin for two days

By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:50, 30 October 2016 | UPDATED: 00:15, 31 October 2016

 

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Huma Abedin's lawyers are set to meet with the Justice Department and FBI to discuss the emails found on her sexting husband Anthony Weiner's laptop - two days after the FBI dramatically announced it had reopened the investigation into Hillary's handling of classified material.
Questions are mounting over right-hand woman Abedin's future on the Clinton campaign as she remains in New York today while her boss campaigns in Florida.
She has reportedly pleaded ignorance about how the emails ended up on her husband Weiner's laptop – and were subsequently found by FBI agents after DailyMail.com exposed him sexting a 15-year-old girl.
The scandal leaves the Clinton campaign facing disaster after FBI director James Comey announced their discovery had led him to reopen the investigation into Clinton with 11 days until the election.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll taken after Comey's announcement shows Trump is just one point behind Clinton, with 45 percent support to her 46 percent.
Last week, Clinton was up 12 points, meaning that she lost a double-digit lead in a week's time. A third of the likely voters polled said they were less likely to cast a vote for Clinton because of this additional email probe.
Even worse for her situation, Abedin swore under oath while testifying in a lawsuit brought against the State Department by Judicial Watch that she had handed over all of her devices that could hold emails relevant to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
If she’s found to have lied she could face up to five years in jail.
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Huma Abedin is seen leaving Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in Brooklyn

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Clinton's righthand woman is seen leaving the offices with a member of the campaign team, who has been spotted with Abedin's son Jordan

On Sunday, CNN initially reported that her attorneys met with representatives from the Justice Department and the FBI as they looked to get a search warrant that would allow them to examine all of the emails on Weiner's laptop - and not just those related to the sexting investigation.
But they later corrected the story, instead saying that the Justice Department were seeking approval for the new warrant.
On Sunday evening, NBC reported that the FBI now has a warrant to read the thousands of emails.
Government lawyers have not approached Abedin's camp, but could do so in the coming days.
Agents from the FBI New York field office stumbled on what they thought were pertinent emails when they were searching the laptop during their sexting investigation.

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Abedin stepped out of the offices and hopped into a SUV to head back to a Manhattan apartment where she has holed up on Saturday night

They stopped the search and immediately called in colleagues.
They have a subpoena for Weiner's laptop, but it only relates to his emails, not Abedin's. So they needed new approval to broaden their search.
There is a chance some of the emails could be duplicates of those they have already seen, but investigators could also find it is a trove of messages Clinton deleted from her server.

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Abedin is seen arriving at Clinton's campaign headquarters in Brooklyn on Sunday while Hillary continued on the campaign trail in Florida

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She emerged after spending Saturday night hiding in her Manhattan apartment as the scandal over her husband Anthony Weiner's laptop continue to unfold

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Abedin stepped out as latest poll results showed the gap between Trump and Hillary had closed to just one point - with a third of voters saying the FBI's revelations had impacted their support for the Democratic candidate

Clinton’s aides are reportedly urging her to distance herself from Abedin, who has been her aide for more than a decade and who she regards as almost a daughter, according to the New York Times.
Abedin told colleagues she has no idea how the emails ended up on her husband's computer, and insists she rarely used it.The Washington Post also reported that her lawyers didn't hand over the device because they didn't think it contained any of her emails.
On Sunday morning, Clinton arrived at Fado’s, an Irish pub in downtown Miami, to greet about 40 Democrats attending what the campaign said was an early voting brunch sponsored by two local Democratic groups, the Miami-Dade Young Democrats and the Miami Downtown Democrats.

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Clinton (right) talks with campaign advisor Darren Peters after greeting supporters at an early voting brunch at Fado Irish Pub in Miami, Florida

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She did not mention Abedin or the growing scandal as she addressed reporters gathered for a voter brunch

She briefly spoke to the crowd, but did not mention Abedin, or the latest scandal that has engulfed the campaign.
Also on Sunday, New York Times bestseller Ed Klein wrote in an article for DailyMail.com that Comey's decision to revive the investigation of Clinton's email server came after he could no longer resist mounting pressure by mutinous agents in the FBI, including some of his top deputies, according to a source close to the embattled FBI director.
'The atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since Jim announced last July that he wouldn't recommend an indictment against Hillary,' said the source, a close friend who has known Comey for nearly two decades, shares family outings with him, and accompanies him to Catholic mass every week.
'Some people, including department heads, stopped talking to Jim, and even ignored his greetings when they passed him in the hall,' said the source. 'They felt that he betrayed them and brought disgrace on the bureau by letting Hillary off with a slap on the wrist.'
According to the source, Comey fretted over the problem for months and discussed it at great length with his wife, Patrice.
He told his wife that he was depressed by the stack of resignation letters piling up on his desk from disaffected agents. The letters reminded him every day that morale in the FBI had hit rock bottom.

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Abedin remained home in New York on Saturday (picturd), after the online sexting habits of her husband, Anthony Weiner, upended her long-time boss's presidential campaign

On Saturday night, Clinton looked to crank up her celebrity appeal by appearing alongside Jennifer Lopez on stage in downtown Miami.
Abedin missed the star-studded concert, and instead remained holed up in her New York City apartment on Saturday night, a day after her husband's sexting of a 15-year-old girl, which was exposed by DailyMail.com, led the FBI to sensationally reopen its investigation into Clinton's emails.
She could be seen inside her Gramercy Park apartment in loungewear as she spent time with her mother and sister.
Clinton's aides have gone to war with Comey for his 'unprecedented and deeply troubling' decision.'
Weiner's sexting investigation is a serious blow to Clinton's campaign in the tightening presidential race.
Reports say agents found thousands of emails on the shared laptop which merit further investigation.
When Clinton was Secretary of State, Abedin had email accounts on the State Department server, Hillary's controversial private server and Yahoo.

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On Friday, the FBI revealed that it had found government-related emails on a laptop Abedin shared with her disgraced, former Congressman husband Weiner

 

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Abedin was pictured aboard the campaign plane with Clinton on Friday before the FBI announced they were reopening the investigation into the private email server

Conflicting reports suggest the emails could either have been sent from Abedin to Clinton, forwarded between Abedin's accounts so she could more easily print them off, or duplicates of emails already investigated by the FBI earlier this year.
As she stayed off the campaign trail in one of the campaign’s critical final days, Abedin may have to contend with some of her sworn statements in a Judicial Watch lawsuit, when she got asked how she went about searching for records she turned over to the State Department.
‘I looked for all the devices that may have any of my State Department work on it and returned — returned — gave them to my attorneys for them to review for all relevant documents. And gave them devices and paper,’ Abedin said.
Asked what devices she handed over, Abedin replied: ‘If memory serves me correctly, it was two laptops, a BlackBerry, and some files that I found in my apartment, Abedin said.
The devices were requested as part of a lawsuit by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch and were later reviewed by the FBI.

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Abedin pictured with her estranged husband at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala in May

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The FBI swooped in on Weiner in September after DailyMail.com revealed he had sent explicit messages and graphic pictures to a 15-year-old girl

Abedin then told Judicial Watch attorney Ramona Cotca that she was 'not involved in the process' of selecting what documents on her devices would be given to the State Department.
She said she asked her attorneys 'to find whatever they thought was relevant and appropriate, whatever was their determination as to what was a federal record'.
'And they did,' she added. 'They turned the materials in, and I know they did.'
[h=3]ANTHONY WEINER SEXTING SCANDAL [/h]The FBI, the New York Police Department, and US attorneys in New York and North Carolina opened investigations into Weiner's conduct in late September, after DailyMail.com exclusively reported on Sept. 21 that the former politician carried on a months-long online relationship with a 15-year-old high school girl.
Weiner exchanged flirtatious and sexually-charged messages with the teen for months after the girl struck up a conversation with him on Twitter in January.
Weiner told the girl he woke up 'hard' after thinking about her, sent her shirtless photos, and complimented her body. He also encouraged her to talk to him on the video-chat application Skype.
The girl alleged that during these Skype conversations, Weiner asked her to get undressed and touch herself. She claimed he also asked her to dress up in school girl outfits and pretend he was her teacher and brought up 'rape fantasies.'
Weiner issued a statement to the Dailymail.com apologizing for 'repeatedly demonstrate[ing] terrible judgment about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent.'
In one particularly lewd message, he told the teen: 'I would bust that tight p***y so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week.'


Abedin, one of Clinton's most trusted aides, said she conducted 'the majority' of her work at her computer and Blackberry but also gave her attorneys the login and password to her personal 'Clintonmail.com' account.
She said she relied on her State Department email for the 'vast majority' of her work, but admitted there were occasions she used the Clintonmail.com account for 'State-related matters'.
While Abedin remained in New York, Clinton traveled without her to Daytona Beach, Florida, where she took her war against Comey right to her own supporters during a rally.
'If you're like me, you probably have a few questions about it,' Clinton told a crowd of about 900 at a community center. 'It is pretty strange. It's pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information, right before an election,' Clinton said.
The crowd booed at the first mention of the FBI issue.
'In fact, it's not just strange it's unprecedented and it's deeply troubling,' Clinton said.
Clinton had first gone after Comey on Friday in a surprise press conference just hours after the news broke, just days before the November 8 election.
'Voters deserve to get full and complete facts. And so we call on Director Comey to explain everything right away,' she said, calling out Comey by name.
She urged Comey to 'put it all out on the table.'
Then she trained her fire on Donald Trump, whom she said was 'already making up lies,' on a day Trump took the issue and ran with it at his own rallies, speculating about Clinton, the Justice Department, Abedin, and Weiner, whom he termed a 'sleaze.'
'He's doing his best to confuse, mislead and discourage the American people,' Clinton said. 'I think it's time for Donald Trump to stop fear-mongering.'
Clinton flew to Daytona Beach and campaigned in Volusia County as part of her all-out effort to stop Trump in a must-win state for him – but was compelled to address the controversy that has upended her campaign.
Mitt Romney won the county in 2012, though it was in the Democratic column for several previous elections.

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Hillary Clinton took her war against FBI Director James Comey right to her own supporters Saturday in Daytona Beach, Florida

 

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Meanwhile, as the controversy swirls, Clinton continues to go about the business of retail politics.
When she landed in Daytona Beach, a small group greeted her with a campaign sign.
Ditching protocol, Clinton walked up to them, and greeted and shook hands with the entire group.
Later, went to a tailgate party with students at Bethune-Cookman University.
Clinton took the stage at the event and declared: 'I just want to encourage all the students who are here today, plus all the alumni who are here… to get out and vote early.'
Later, she went to the 50 yard line of Daytona's Municipal Stadium.
'This election is about education, it's about the future of the… historically black colleges and universities, and I promise you I will do my very best to build on the progress, the progress of President Obama,' she said to cheers.
'This election is one of the most important in our country's history because everything you care about, everything I care about is really on the ballot and we've got to demonstrate that we're going to build a future where the economy works for everybody, not just those at the top,' she said.

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Clinton continues to go about the business of retail politics. When she landed in Daytona Beach, a small group greeted her with a campaign sign

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Clinton greets tailgaters at the Bethune-Cookman University Wildcats homecoming football game in Daytona Beach, Florida

'I promise you that I will be your partner, I will work with you, I will work for you, every single day in the White House, and we're going to prove once and for all that love trumps hate,' she said.
The Clinton campaign has suggested that the new-found emails are duplicates, but the law enforcement source said it's highly unlikely that all of them are.
When news emerged of the email investigation being reopened, a campaign aide said that Clinton 'took the news like a champ. We always knew there'd be a another surprise in the election.
'She's in a very good frame of mind about it. Pretty happy warrior and is quite confident we'll be able to deal with it.'
Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, teed off on the lawman in a blistering press call on Saturday.
He said Comey's move to reexamine Clinton emails was 'long on innuendo and short on facts,' calling the reporting on the stunning developments in the presidential race 'overblown.'

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Clinton was campaigning in Daytona - a county where Mitt Romney won in 2012, though it was in the Democratic column for several previous elections

'Despite initial reporting the letter amounted to a quote unquote reopening of the investigation … it seems that that is not at all the case,' fumed Podesta on a campaign press call with reporters.
Podesta blasted House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz of Utah, saying, 'This is someone who has already promised to launch years of new Hillary Clinton investigations when she's president.'
He referenced an LA Times report that emails the FBI was looking at were not to or from Clinton.
'It's had to see how this amounts to anything,' Podesta said, stressing the last minute nature of the campaign bombshell.
'Comey has not been forthcoming with the facts,' Podesta blustered. 'What little told us: hard to understand why this was warranted at all.'

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The Democratic candidate was in Florida notably without her longtime aide Huma Abedin (center earlier this month), who remained home in New York, after the online sexting habits of her husband, Anthony Weiner, upended her longtime boss's presidential campaign.

Podesta said they are 'standing' behind Abedin, following the latest revelation into the Clinton email scandal.
'Huma completely and voluntarily complied with and cooperated with the investigation,' Podesta said.
'She sat for a hours long interview. She turned over and went through with her lawyers all of the emails that might possibly be relevant and turned them over to the state department and investigators.
'There's absolutely nothing she's done that we think calls into question anything that she's done.
'She's been fully cooperating and we of course stand behind her.'
Campaign manager Robby Mook said the stunning FBI story is actually ginning up Clinton supporters.

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On Friday, Comey sent a letter to Congress to inform them about the reopening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's (above on Saturday) private email server based on newly discovered emails, rocking Clinton's campaign

 

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'We're not just seeing this in our offices on the ground but also in the online space as well,' he said.
'We already had momentum and wind behind our back going into yesterday this has only increased the momentum that we're feeling among our activists on the ground.'
Republican Donald Trump had a field day with the latest developments as he campaigned out west.
'Her criminal action was willful, deliberate, intentional and purposeful,' Trump said in an agricultural event center in Golden, Colorado. 'Hillary set up an illegal server for the obvious purpose of shielding her criminal conduct from public disclosure and exposure.'
Then he went after Abedin's spouse, disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, calling him 'a major, major, major sleaze.'
'I wonder, is she going to keep Huma? Huma's been a problem,' Trump said.
'I wonder if Huma's going to stay there. And I hope they haven't given Huma immunity.'
'She knows the real story. She knows what's going on,' he said.
On Saturday, the Democratic presidential nominee boarded her campaign plane at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York.
Clinton, who smiled and waved to the cameras on the ground as she walked up the steps to get on the plane, is heading to campaign in Florida.
While on the plane, she was photographed speaking with members of her staff and seemed at ease.
During her press conference on Friday, Clinton called on the FBI to release whatever information it has about its restarted investigation of her email scandal 'without delay'.
And she said she did not know 'what to believe' regarding what she called 'rumors' that the new information came from Abedin's laptop – a device she reportedly shared with Weiner.
'We are 11 days out from perhaps the most important election of our lifetimes,' Clinton told reporters in a surprise press conference.
'The American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately.'

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This is the internal memo obtained by Fox News that Comey sent out. He noted he felt an 'obligation' to inform lawmakers about the investigation given he had testified repeatedly in recent months that the investigation was completed

'We've heard these rumors,' said Clinton – who sat near Abedin on her campaign on the flight to Des Moines.
'We don't know what to believe and I'm sure there will be even more rumors. That's why it is incumbent upon the FBI to tell us what they're talking about,' she said.
'Because right now your guess is as good as mine and I don't think that's good enough.'
Clinton gave the press conference inside the choral room of Roosevelt High School in Des Moines – where she held an event meant to stress women's issues and early vote efforts and where she ignored the growing crisis engulfing her campaign.
But her traveling press was fixated completely on the stunning FBI story, which comes after the bureau sensationally reopened their investigation into her secret server after they discovered email exchanges between her and Abedin on the device.
[h=3]THE CLINTON EMAIL CONTROVERSY [/h]January 13 2009: Hillary Clinton's aide Justin Cooper sets up clintonemail.com domain. Huma Abedin signs off on it
January 21: Clinton is sworn in as Secretary of State
18 March: Clinton stops using her BlackBerry email account and switches to the newly created hdr22@clintonemail.com account. The domain is hosted on her own private email server, set up by her aide Bryan Pagliano
September 11, 2012: Four Americans are killed in attack on a U.S. base in Benghazi, Libya including Ambassador Chris Stevens
February 1, 2013: Clinton steps down as secretary of state
October 28, 2014: State Department demands Clinton's work-related correspondence as part of a congressional investigation into Benghazi
Fall 2014: Clinton's lawyers deletes 33,000 emails which they claim are 'personal'
December 5, 2014: Clinton's legal team provide roughly 30,000 emails to the State Department when they are demanded by a congressional investigation into Benghazi.
March 2 2015: The New York Times breaks the news that Clinton used a personal email account to conduct government business while secretary of state
July 25: Clinton says she is confident none of the emails on her private email server were classified at the time of sending and receiving
August 4: The Washington Post reveals the FBI has begun looking into the security of Clinton's private email set-up
September 10: Bryan Pagliano formally asserts his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions from a Republican-led House committee on her email arrangements
July 6, 2016: The Justice Department closes Clinton email probe and FBI Director James Comey announces the FBI won't prosecute. The decision was made by Comey because Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to recuse herself after a secret meeting with Bill Clinton
October 7: WikiLeaks begins release of thousands of emails hacked from the Gmail account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chair
October 28: FBI reopens its investigation into Clinton's server


Asked if she had been contacted by the FBI or whether she was concerned that the new emails would reveal any classified information, Clinton responded to the first part of the question.
'No – we have not been contacted by anyone. First we knew about it is I assume when you knew about it, when this letter sent to Republican members of the House was released.
'So we don't know the facts, which is why we are calling on the FBI to release all the information that it has.'
'Lets get it out,' she said.

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The Republican presidential nominee renewed his attacks on the disgraced former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner as well, calling him 'a major, major, major sleaze'

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Opportunity knocks: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton has nobody to blame but herself for her mounting legal troubles after the FBI reopened their investigation into her emails

 

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She observed that FBI director James Comey had said the new information concerning the emails may not be significant.
Clinton's campaign was outraged and implied that Comey's intervention could be politically-tinged because, in Clinton's words, the letter was only sent to 'Republican members of the House.'
She also declared herself 'confident' that voters, and the FBI, would conclude that she had done nothing wrong.
Her defiant words came after Trump - himself dogged by scandal over his alleged sexual misconduct - made hay, declaring Clinton unfit for office as a jubilant crowd of supporters in New Hampshire chanted: 'Lock her up!'
Concern that the renewed probe would damage Clinton's formerly impressive momentum spooked the markets, with US stocks, the dollar and oil prices tumbling lower on the prospect of a close vote.
Clinton noted that Comey had said he himself does not know whether the emails are significant or not.
'I'm confident, whatever they are, they will not change the conclusion reached in July,' she added.
[h=3]THE TALE OF HILLARY CLINTON'S PRIVATE SERVER[/h]

The Clintons' Chappaqua home where the server began life

June 2008: An Apple Power Mac server, purchased by Bill Clinton's aide Justin Cooper in 2007, is installed in the basement of the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York. It initially handles traffic for Bill Clinton but soon is used by Clinton and her staff as well
Fall: Computer equipment from Clinton's presidential campaign is tapped as a replacement - a Dell PowerEdge 2900 Windows Server and Microsoft Exchange and a 1950 running a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Clinton aide Bryan Pagliano starts work on building the system, believing it will be used by Bill Clinton's staff
January 2009: It is decided that the Apple server must be replaced as it is having problems with the volume of traffic
March: Pagliano installs the server he has built in a rack in the Chappaqua house basement, with the help of Cooper. Pagliano, who is administrator for the new device, transfers the Apple server emails onto the new device. The new server is backed up once a week onto a Seagate external hard drive. The FBI has never obtained the Apple server for examination
January 2013: Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryll Mills, recommends Denver, Colorado-based IT firm Platte River Networks (PRN) to manage the server to help with user limitations and reliability concerns

Denver-based Platte held a 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'-themed party while at a conference

June 23: A Platte employee removes the server from the Chappaqua home to a data center in Secaucus, New Jersey, run by Equinix, to migrate it to a new server
June 30: The Clintons' email accounts are migrated to the Platte server
July 18: Platte signs an agreement to manage the new, third server, a Dell PowerEdge R620. Platte subsequently configure a backup device from Datto, Inc, a Connecticut-based company, to take multiple snapshots of the system daily and to store the information for 60 days. The device also takes copies of the Pagliano server between June 24-December 23
December 2013: The Pagliano server is fully decommissioned
December 2014: Clinton and Abedin begin using the domain hrcoffice and stop using clintonemail.com
October 3, 2015: The Pagliano server is voluntarily handed over to the FBI



Read more:

• Abedin-Weiner electronic device was laptop, had tens-of-thousands of emails, source | Fox News
• Exclusive: FBI still does not have warrant to review new Abedin emails linked to Clinton probe
• www.nytimes.com/...
• Clinton and Trump Even Up; Turnout Looks to be Critical (POLL) - ABC News
• Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told people she doesn’t know how her emails wound up on her husband’s computer - The Washington Post
• Justice Department, Abedin lawyers in talks to permit email search - CNNPolitics.com
• FBI Obtains Warrant for Newly Discovered Emails in Clinton Probe — as Reid Accuses Comey of Hatch Act Violation - NBC News

 

[mountain]

Damn, finally spotted Guesser.

 

[anatevka]

drain the swamp

 

[Seymour]

The reality is the swamp is going to be bone dry by the time Trump or Kaine gets sworn in

 

[SheriffJoe]

Would a President Trump pardon her in order to "heal and bring the nation together", especially if her Parkinson's became public knowledge?

 

[REDEYE]

Would a President Trump pardon her in order to "heal and bring the nation together", especially if her Parkinson's became public knowledge?

probably depends on how she handles herself going forward and how far she goes obstructing this investigation ....wounded animals are dangerous and unpredictable

 

[Seymour]

If the ambassador is dead because of her there is no pardon

 

[anatevka]

If the ambassador is dead because of her there is no pardon

what difference does it make?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Damn, finally spotted Guesser.

Must have been on his way to Delaware Park.

 

[Seymour]

what difference does it make?

It makes a difference - not that it should - but if Trump pushes a prosecution it's going to be seen as divisive - if the FBI and Attorney General want to charge her he should just stay out of it - if the Ambassador to Libya is dead as a result of her conduct then he should got with Comey and beat the fuck out of her and tell the public she resisted arrest

 

[busterhyman]

Damn, finally spotted Guesser.

that's funny-but sad too-that's how the liberals want the american male to look like