Comeys Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate

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Perhaps Comey’s most surprising revelation was that Huma Abedin — Weiner’s wife and a top Clinton deputy — had made “a regular practice” of forwarding “hundreds and thousands” of Clinton messages to her husband, “some of which contain classified information.” Comey testified that Abedin had done this so that the disgraced former congressman could print them out for her boss. (Weiner’s laptop was seized after he came under criminal investigation for sex crimes, following a media report about his online relationship with a teenager.)

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The problem: Much of what Comey said about this was inaccurate. Now the FBI is trying to figure out what to do about it.

FBI officials have privately acknowledged that Comey misstated what Abedin did and what the FBI investigators found. On Monday, the FBI was said to be preparing to correct the record by sending a letter to Congress later this week. But that plan now appears on hold, with the bureau undecided about what to do.

ProPublica is reporting a story on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton emails and raised questions with government officials last week about possible inaccuracies in Comey’s statements about Abedin.

It could not be learned how the mistake occurred. The FBI and Abedin declined ProPublica’s requests for comment on the director’s misstatements.

According to two sources familiar with the matter — including one in law enforcement — Abedin forwarded only a handful of Clinton emails to her husband for printing — not the “hundreds and thousands” cited by Comey. It does not appear Abedin made “a regular practice” of doing so. Other officials said it was likely that most of the emails got onto the computer as a result of backups of her Blackberry.

It was not clear how many, if any, of the forwarded emails were among the 12 “classified” emails Comey said had been found on Weiner’s laptop. None of the messages carried classified markings at the time they were sent.

https://www.propublica.org/article/comeys-testimony-on-huma-abedin-forwarding-emails-was-inaccurate

[DURHAM D]

1. Comey lied.

I'm shocked.

[herding cats]

3. It looks that way.

Surprise, surprise.

[L. Coyote]

6. And Cruz repeated the lie in today's hearing, using a hypothetical scenario as a screen.

And Clapper played along with him instead of refusing to engage in hypotheticals.

[herding cats]

9. I was just thinking of that.

I'm sure Comey is very mildly nauseous over all this.

[winstars]

16. Saw that also, whatever they do now, it will be on page fucking 37 in the paper, too late. Bastards!

[herding cats]

18. We can't undo anything, but that's no reason to sit idly by and not be outraged

If we rally our anger, they just might not pull such a blatantly partisan stunt again. At least not for a few years while it's still top on people's minds.

[WinkyDink]

27. "What would YOU do?!"

[Alice11111]

31. Yeah, I was getting pissed because no one challenged

Their lying characterizations.

I flipped to fox afterwards to see what the masses are being fed, Eric Bowling was saying, it was all nothing but a political grand stand, as the Repub Senators had made clear.

From my POV, watching it, Dems won. However, the masses don't watch this
They see the clips of the snide Repub Senators giving the finger to the libs, and they love it.

We need to invade the RW media. They are invading us.
Reality doesn't matter much. It is what the media makes the masses BELIEVE is reality. It is going to take a lot of education to get past that. We can't even get an independent investigation.

[trueblue2007]

17. will Comey get in trouble if he did lie?

[herding cats]

19. No.

It'll be a 'misstatement' and he'll be excused with at most a minor apology.

[DURHAM D]

20. No. He has a penis. nt

[Alice11111]

34. !!!

[Cha]

2. Oh great.. thanks for this, herding cats

Shine the Light on it

[herding cats]

4. They're shining the Luxor sky beam on this.

This is f'd up!

[Cha]

7. Good Going!

[BigmanPigman]

5. Lock HIM up too!

[FakeNoose]

8. My guess is, maybe she used his laptop from time to time

Wouldn't that make more sense?

Maybe she didn't feel like lugging her computer around, and she occasionally checked her emails on his computer. Maybe she didn't realize they were being stored in the cache or the backup. Most computers have automatic backups these days so it's not too hard to retrieve older saved memory.

She could have deleted the emails out of current memory, not intending to leave them on his computer, but they might have been saved anyway. It's a possibility, and nothing nefarious going on.

[herding cats]

10. Or plugged her phone into it and it synced w/o her knowledge?

What we know is she was smeared, intentionally or not, by Comey.

[FakeNoose]

13. Sure

Something for people to be wary of, if they work with sensitive information.

[herding cats]

15. None of the material was classified at the time she received it, though.

It's fair to assume she never realized it ever would be since she was just an assistant to the SOS. I'd assume actual classified (at the time) material would be handled differently.

I worked a contract auditing a federal government entity not long ago. I had security clearance for the, and most things were dealt with via our private network. However, some items were sent to my private mail which were deemed non sensitive at the time. I can understand how this can happen.

[pnwmom]

23. Yes. And the article says that Huma's Blackberry also got backed up onto the laptop.

She wasn't deliberately emailing hundreds of thousands of emails to the laptop.

[Nevermypresident]

11. Started a thread on this the other day...Comey's testimony didn't

make sense to me. Thread I started was "Who's Lying, Huma Abedin or Comey?"

How those 1000's of emails made it to her estranged husband's laptop is veryyyy interesting.

[herding cats]

12. I didn't see it, I'm sorry.

I'm glad you caught it then and mentioned it. I agree, I did a double take when he said that at the FBI oversight hearing, too. It didn't fit into what had been established as fact previously.

[brush]

14. There was an earlier report months ago that rogue FBI agents and/or Russian operatives...

planted the emails remotely on Weiner's computer in order to help trump.

Comey wasn't in the loop on that, allegedly. He was only tipped in late October, thus his infamous letter.

With this latest revelation that Comey lied in his recent testimony about this, I'm even less impressed with Comey's ability or intent to round up the "unusual suspects" who he claims he's investigating.

They just might get away with this shit if the arrogant and slightly nauseated Comey doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

[herding cats]

21. I saw something about that, too.

I could never verify it, though.

[Stallion]

25. That Was Louise Mensch and Her Carolina Conspiracy Report

....she also noted there have not been any new charges-and will not be against Anthony Weiner-because it was a scheme to plant material on his device. Here's the link

https://patribotics.blog/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/

[sharedvalues]

22. Comey got rolled by corrupt NY FBI field office and Giuliani

Comey is going to take down this administration. And he better clean his own house while he's at it.

John Schindler has said the FBI NY office has a problem like Whitey Bulger -- but much worse.

[pnwmom]

24. Right. And the FBI needs to correct this publicly. NOW! nt

[WinkyDink]

26. "Inaccurate." "Misstated." "Mistake." DAMN IT! Comey LIED UNDER OATH.

[nikibatts]

28. This shite is becoming more stinky by the moment.

[oldtime dfl_er]

29. When Comey said

When Comey said Putin "hated" Hillary, I think there was a little bit of projection there. It's pretty clear to me that Comey hates her too. Just the venom in his voice when he said that, and now this makes it more obvious.

[WinkyDink]

30. Gee. I found this news story in a vilified tabloid.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4486876/Comey-wrong-say-Huma-forwarded-classified-emails.html

[pnwest]

32. My first thought was, who would print out

every single one of 30,000 emails? Who would forward, and then print, each and every one if 30 thousand emails. It HAS to be a syncing thing that put the whole trove on that computer.

[Nevermypresident]

33. I believe it was reported by the WSJ (and other outlets) that 650,000 emails

were found on Weiner's laptop. Comey thought/hoped included in this trove were the 30,000 emails (that allegedly were deleted by Clinton et al?). You know, the emails tiny hands asked Putin to find.

Please correct me if I'm wrong (can't get past paywell on WSJ site).

[DallasNE]

35. I Have Posted From Day One

That Comey was untruthful about what the FBI had, even saying that what they had was a backup file. What Comey was really looking for from that backup file was email that Clinton had deleted after the backup was taken. And they found some - like the one where Clinton and Abedin discussed what they were going to wear to a function that night. What this really did was to fully exonerate Hillary Clinton.