U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel on Monday ordered the warrant and accompanying documents released, which he said were secretly filed with the court on Oct. 30.
investigators wanted to see what was also on the Abedin-Weiner laptop, according to the government affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
That laptop, the FBI noted, “was never authorized for the storage or transmission of classified or national defense information,” according to the application for the warrant, which was partially redacted.....
The unsealed search warrant files, however, may help explain why Comey decided to revive the Clinton investigation despite the pending election.
“Out of the 27 email chains, six email chains contained information that was classified as the Secret level at the time the emails were sent, and information in four of those email chains remains classified at that level now,” the application stated.
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Edward B. MacMahon. Jr., a white-collar defense attorney who also defended Sterling, said he believed agents seemed to have acted appropriately in obtaining the warrant.
“Look, probable cause is such a low standard,” MacMahon said. “The way I read this is they’re saying they found another computer that may have had additional emails on it, and they wanted to search that computer. That’s completely consistent with what the FBI would want to do in a case like this
The agent wrote that
27 email chains containing classified information went through Abedin accounts: Six contained information classified secret at the time it was sent, and 21 were classified confidential.
The agent wrote that —
given thousands of Abedin emails were found on the computer belonging to Weiner, including some that appeared to have been sent while Clinton was secretary of state — there was probable cause to believe their correspondence contained classified information. The agent also wrote that
investigators would analyze whether there had been cyber intrusions of the laptop.
Agents also
were looking “to determine if classified information was accessed by unauthorized users or transferred to any unauthorized systems.”
The affidavit clearly states that the warrant relates to a
“criminal investigation” of Clinton, terminology Clinton’s team previously had disputed.
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