A major bombshell in the Hillary email affair—Huma Abedin says, through her attorneys, that she never got a copy of the warrant for the emails that were supposedly related to Hillary’s email server.
Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin told a Manhattan federal judge in a court filing Thursday that neither she nor Anthony Weiner ever received FBI search warrants for emails found on her estranged husband’s computer — raising questions about whether FBI warrants for the emails were ever issued, and if so, to whom.
When the New York Post is asking whether warrants were even issued, that’s very telling. Remember, the Post is a corporate cousin to Fox News.
E. Randol Schoenberg, the lawyer suing the FBI to get a copy of the search warrant, detonated this bombshell on Thursday afternoon via Twitter.
Abedin was asked to comment about the warrants, but through her lawyers said she never got a copy. Indeed, the first she heard of them was when Comey announced he’d alerted Congress about the discovery of potentially relevant emails.
This is absolutely staggering. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure explicitly require agents to leave a copy of the warrant “with the person from whom, or from whose premises, the property was taken,” or at the very least leave a copy “at the place where the officer took the property.” Abedin is saying that the FBI didn’t do either. Grossly unprofessional at best. But taken with everything else we’ve learned, this situation is now firmly in “what did they know and when did they know it” territory.
Last night, I spoke with Seth Abramson, the legal expert who suspects that FBI agents deliberately conspired to screw Hillary out of the presidency, about this development. He suspects the basis for the warrant—assuming that there even was one—is so flimsy that “the FBI didn’t want Abedin or Weiner to see it before the election”—either because they might have challenged it in court or because they could contend the warrant contained “signs of political motivations, leaked info, or other nefarious oversights/additions.”
We know at the very least that the agents in this case committed firing offenses. But consider that they couldn’t find the time to tell Comey that they needed warrants for those emails until just two weeks before the election. They also couldn’t find the time to interview Abedin, or give her a copy of the warrant. But they did find the time to tell the agents working on the email server case, who in turn leaked the information to one of Trump’s closest advisers, Rudy Giuliani.
This many basic lapses all at once? There’s no longer any denying it—there’s a rank odor surrounding this situation—strong enough that I can smell it in North Carolina. At this point, it’s not too outlandish to wonder if rogue elements in the FBI really did deliberately try to throw the election to Trump.