The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Source: Fox News
Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:30 PM
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Knew Emails Related To Hillary Clinton Email Server One Month Before Comey Testified And Informed Congress
That lag is the subject of an investigation by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz as part of a wider probe into the FBI's actions prior to the 2016 election. The Washington Post was the first to report that McCabe was a focus of Horowitz's investigation.
The timeline of when the emails were discovered on the laptop of former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner emerged in text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the Journal reported.
McCabe left his position Monday ahead of his planned retirement, effective March 18. The Post reported Tuesday that McCabe had met with FBI Director Christopher Wray to discuss the inspector general's investigation prior to the announcement of his departure.
On Sept. 28, Strzok messaged Page that he
had been "called up to Andy's office" earlier that day and told of
"hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by Weiner’s [attorney] to
sdny," a reference to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern
District of New York. Strzok added that the email cache "includes a ton
of material from spouse," a reference to Weiner's then-wife Huma Abedin,
a top adviser to Clinton.
However, the existence of the emails on Weiner's laptop was not made
public until Oct. 28, when Comey informed Congress in a letter that the
FBI was re-opening the Clinton investigation.
Strzok and two other agents spent the weekend before the Nov. 8 election
sifting through about 3,000 emails from Weiner's laptop, the Journal
reported. Early on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 6, Strzok texted Page
that the team had found "no new classified" emails.
That same day, Comey informed Congress
that the Weiner emails had not altered the FBI's initial decision not to
prosecute Clinton.
At the time, the U.S. Attorney's office was investigating Weiner for
crimes related to explicit messages he sent to a teenage girl. Weiner
pleaded guilty to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor
and was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
The conservative group Judicial Watch has claimed that at least 18
emails containing classified information were found on Weiner's laptop.
Among them were emails from Abedin's "clintonemail.com" account as well
as from her Blackberry. Comey told lawmakers earlier this year that he
believes Abedin regularly forwarded emails to Weiner for him to print
out so she could give them to Clinton.