Justice Department, Abedin lawyers in talks to permit email search [View all]

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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.