Washington – A top aide to Hillary Clinton did not forward “hundreds and thousands” of emails to her husband’s laptop as FBI Director James Comey recently testified to Congress, according to a person familiar with the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.
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Comey, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, provided new details about the email server investigation and his reason for alerting Congress just before Election Day to the new discovery of emails on the laptop of former Rep. Anthony Weiner. The congressman separated last year from Huma Abedin, the Clinton aide.
He said Abedin was in the practice of forwarding emails to the laptop to be printed out for Clinton, saying at one point that “hundreds and thousands” had been forwarded.
But a person familiar with the investigation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the testimony publicly, says that was a misstatement of the number of emails involved.
Comey said that some of the emails contained classified information, but the person said Abedin never forwarded anything that was marked classified.
The FBI had no immediate comment Tuesday.
What I don’t understand is , what is the purpose of knowing how many emails were involved? If someone steals a penny or a million dollars, either one is a crime.
Selective reporting.
The same source also claims that the emails were indeed on his computer (possibly being used as a backup) just that they were not allbEMAILED.
Semantics.