A person close to the case said she does not appear to have ever forwarded emails to her Gmail account for printing.Ībedin would use this procedure for printing documents when she received emails she believed Clinton needed to see and when the secretary forwarded emails to her for printing. As a result, she sometimes transferred emails from her unclassified State Department account to either her Yahoo account or her account on Clinton's server, and printed the emails from there. Abedin informed the FBI in April that, like many State Department officials, she found the government network technology cumbersome, and she had great trouble printing documents there, investigative records show. Because Clinton preferred to read documents on paper rather than on a screen, emails and other files were often printed out and provided to her either at her office or home, where they were delivered in a diplomatic pouch by a security agent. In other words, from the opening moments of this inquiry, there were people in government who already knew what the outcome of this new FBI effort would be, yet it took the bureau another nine days to confirm those details. For work-related records, Abedin primarily used the email account provided to her by the State Department.įrom the information obtained that first day by Newsweek, it was already clear that, because of the accounts involved, almost all of the documents were going to be duplicates or personal emails. Abedin, who did not know Clinton used a private server for her emails, told the bureau in an April interview that she used the account on the domain only for issues related to the secretary's personal affairs, such as communicating with her friends. In other words, Abedin's personal account provided by the State Department for non-classified emails was not involved. Last week, Newsweek learned that that account was through Gmail. The night of the disclosure, Newsweek reported that the emails were from as many as three accounts-one through Yahoo, one on the domain, and one from an account Abedin used in support of one of Weiner's campaigns for office. In fact, people involved in the case said, the FBI never asked either the Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, or her husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner, if they would voluntarily allow for such a search. At that point, the FBI did not have a warrant to review the emails, nor had they sought permission from the owners of the laptop to search it. Less than two weeks ago, Comey set the election on its head when he informed Congress that his agents had located emails that "appear to be pertinent" to the Clinton investigation. As a result, FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress Sunday saying the new emails have not changed the bureau's earlier decision that no crime occurred with Clinton's use of a private server while she was secretary of state. The Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that almost every email discovered in a laptop used primarily by the husband of an aide to Hillary Clinton was a duplicate of previously produced documents or personal emails, a person close to the case told Newsweek.
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