As reported earlier this morning by Fox News’ Bret Baier, disgraced former Democratic congressman and the latest cause of headache for the Clinton campaign, Anthony Weiner, is said to be cooperating with authorities in the FBI investigation of his laptop that contains emails that prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reopen its probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of an unauthorized email server.
Breaking now on #FNS per @BretBaier — Anthony Weiner is said to be cooperating with the FBI investigation.
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) October 30, 2016
As the Washington Examiner reports, though FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Friday his agency found emails related to Hillary Clinton’s private email server, he didn’t yet have a warrant to read them. As of Saturday night, the FBI had not received a search warrant from the Justice Department, an unnamed agency official told Yahoo News, but the agency was in talks to get one. When Comey wrote the letter, “he had no idea what was in the content of the emails,” said one official.
It adds that Comey has also begun participating in briefings with the Republican chairman and Democratic ranking members of congressional committees, according to Bill House, a congressional correspondent for Bloomberg News, citing unnamed sources.
Comey has started briefings with chairs of committees and rankers. As of saturday, still had no warrant. Sources.
— Billy House (@HouseInSession) October 30, 2016
It is possible that as a result of the cooperation, the FBI will be able to obtain a clearer assessment of just what is contained in the emails, facilitating the Clinton campaign request for the FBI to “come clean” with what he been uncovered; alternatively it may accelerate the disclosure into any “smoking guns” as some pundits have claimed had been uncovered in the email trove.
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