Justice Department, Abedin lawyers in talks to permit email search

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

The Justice Department and the FBI are in discussions with lawyers for Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin to secure approval that would allow the FBI to conduct a full search of her newly discovered emails, sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.

Authorities have not yet sought a search warrant for the emails, law enforcement sources told CNN. Government lawyers hope to secure a search warrant to permit investigators to review thousands of emails on a computer Abedin shared with her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, officials said.

The new search warrant is needed because the existing authorization, covered by a subpoena, related only to the ongoing investigation of Weiner, who is accused of having sexually explicit communications with an underage girl.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/clinton-emails-fbi-abedin/index.html

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Editing to add that the CNN reporter who wrote this story is now saying it was incorrect. See my reply #1 below.

[highplainsdem]

1. CNN's Evan Perez just tweeted that this story was incorrect:

https://twitter.com/evanperez/status/792766101180456961

Evan Pérez Verified account
‏@evanperez

Govt lawyers plan to seek search warrant for Abedin emails. No discussions yet w her lawyers. We earlier mistakenly said they had.

9:32 AM - 30 Oct 2016

[LisaL]

2. Mistakenly said?

So this whole cnn story is bogus?

[highplainsdem]

4. No idea what's going on. The uncorrected story is still there, and Perez hasn't tweeted again.

They need to clear this up, on CNN's site, ASAP.

[cynzke]

11. Good luck with getting a search warrant.

You can't get a search warrant for a fishing expedition. Here are some of the pitfalls this law professor points out regarding the FBI and their investigative process.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/30/was-it-legal-for-the-fbi-to-expand-the-weiner-email-search-to-target-hillary-clintons-emails/?utm_term=.123410f4b64c

[exboyfil]

3. So did the source lie?

How can you get something like this incorrect? The story seemed pretty detailed including saying the source believed it was likely that previously deleted emails were going to be recovered.

Own your story. Don't just walk away from it.

[getagrip_already]

5. sources have been lying all along...

It's a cornucopia of disinformation, and the media is complicit.

[Stonepounder]

6. The article has been updated.

What I want to know is just why they believe that the trove may contain emails that were deleted from Hillary's server before the FBI took posession or it??

Way to be impartial and unbiased.

[LisaL]

7. Here is the correction they put on the bottom of it.

If they got the main claim wrong, how can you believe any of it?

"Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that talks between the Department of Justice and Abedin's lawyers were underway. They are not."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/clinton-emails-fbi-abedin/index.html

[Stonepounder]

8. They also changed the second paragraph to read:

"Government lawyers haven't yet approached Abedin's lawyers to seek an agreement to conduct the search. Sources earlier told CNN that those discussions had begun, but the law enforcement officials now say they have not."

[LisaL]

9. So basically they originally put out a bogus story out there that

these talks were already going on.

[cynzke]

12. If you do not have direct evidence of a crime, you can not.....

obtain a search warrant to conduct a fishing expedition.

Comey has stated that Abedin's emails were found on Weiner's laptop. The FBI and Comey claim they don't know what is on these email...only SPECULATE they might be "pertinent". PERTINENT is not enough legal mustard TO BUY YOU A WARRANT. Therefore the FBI would need PERMISSION by the OWNER/AUTHOR (in this case Uma) to view these emails.

The FBI is out on a limb here! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/30/was-it-legal-for-the-fbi-to-expand-the-weiner-email-search-to-target-hillary-clintons-emails/?utm_term=.123410f4b64c

[cynzke]

13. I'm glad one legal expert has......

picked up on this whole debacle.

[DK504]

10. Comey has obstructed and is trying to influence our presidential election.

He didn't even have a warrant or a need to deal with this BS and he pretends this is a serious "investigation" or inquiry" how is he and the agents that are involved allowed in the building?

[Kingofalldems]

14. Tweet from CNN says no:

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/792805073663516676