The Justice Department gets a warrant to search email related to Hillary Clinton’s private server. The New York Times suspects no new emails will be found.
Federal investigators have obtained a warrant to begin searching a large cache of emails belonging to a top aide to Hillary Clinton, law enforcement officials said on Sunday, as prosecutors and F.B.I. agents scrambled under intense public pressure to assess their significance before Election Day.
It remains unclear whether they can finish their work by then. “The process has begun,” a federal law enforcement official said.
The hurried pace at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. raises the prospect that law enforcement officials will again publicly discuss a continuing investigation involving a presidential candidate in the final days of the campaign. The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, has faced extraordinary criticism since he sent an ambiguous letter to congressional leaders telling them that agents had discovered new emails.
Agents in an unrelated investigation of Anthony D. Weiner, the disgraced former congressman, found the emails, belonging to his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, the aide to Mrs. Clinton, this month. That prompted a renewed interest among agents who had investigated Mrs. Clinton for her use of a private email server as secretary of state. That investigation centered on whether Mrs. Clinton or her aides had mishandled classified information. Prosecutors concluded that case in July without bringing charges.
Via NY Times