Agencies
Washington, Oct 31: Over 650,000 emails have been found on a laptop shared by Hillary Clinton’s close aide and her husband as the Democratic Presidential candidate’s woes escalated just over a week before the election with the FBI set to review the newly-discovered data. The FBI received the necessary search warrant Sunday to look into the emails belonging to Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin as part of the re-opened investigation into the case of use of a personal email hosted on a private server by the former Secretary of State in the first term of the Obama Administration, media reports said. Such a large number of emails have been found on the laptop which was shared by a former Congressman Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife Abedin.
Abedin was a key individual investigated into the alleged email scandal of Clinton. Among others, she testified before a Congressional Committee. The FBI came across these emails while investigating into a sexting case of Weiner, following which the FBI Director James Comey informed the Congress that it is reopening the investigation on Clinton which it had closed three months ago. The Clinton campaign has questioned the motive behind such a move. Clinton’s rival Donald Trump Sunday said that the finding of such a large number of emails could be motherload (abundant source of something).
“This could be the motherload, you know? This could be the 33,000 that are missing. This could be the 20,000 that are missing. This could be the 15,000 that are missing,” he said, referring to emails that were deleted from the server before the FBI could see them. Armed with the search warrant, FBI will now examine e-mails belonging to Abedin to see if they have anything to do with the original Clinton investigation. The Clinton Campaign reiterated its demand that FBI release all information related to the case. Meanwhile, the US Senate’s top Democrat has blasted FBI chief James Comey for announcing a new review of Hillary Clinton’s emails just days before the Presidential election, an action he says “may have broken the law.”
