Judge Set To Unseal FBI Warrant In Clinton Email Probe

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton chats with her staff, including aide Huma Abedin (L), onboard her plane in October 2016.

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A federal judge is slated to unseal a search warrant related to the reopening of the investigation of former democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton just before the presidential election.

The warrant was issued on Oct. 30, 2016, after the FBI requested permission to search emails on a laptop belonging to disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, estranged husband to high-ranking Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The emails were reportedly discovered during an unrelated probe over Weiner’s alleged sexting with an underaged person.

U.S. District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel ruled Monday in the Southern District of New York that he would unseal the documents at noon on Tuesday. The judge acted after Los Angeles-based attorney E. Randol Schoenberg filed a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit in New York to make the search warrant public.

Anthony Weiner

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On July 5, 2016, FBI Director James Comey announced that the bureau was completing its investigation in Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email server during her time as Secretary of State. Director Comey announced that the FBI’s probe of whether Clinton improperly stored or transmitted classified information on this server had determined that she was not in violation of federal statute and he would not recommend that the Department of Justice bring criminal charges against Clinton.

On October 28, 2016, Comey wrote a letter to Congress informing them that the FBI was reopening its investigation of Clinton due to discovery of apparently relevant emails in an unrelated case. This turned out to be the probe of Weiner’s online interactions with a minor.

On Nov. 6, 2016, just two days before the presidential election, Comey informed Congress that the FBI had completed the subsequent probe and he had not changed the conclusion that was reached in June. Still many speculated that reopening the investigation might have affected the election results.

Unless a higher court steps in, the warrant will be unsealed on Tuesday, giving the public a more detailed look at the FBI’s basis for requesting that the investigation be reopened.

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