According to Investigative Reporter Paul Sperry from RealClearInvestigations the FBI only looked at 1% of the emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
In fact, a technical glitch prevented FBI technicians from accurately comparing the new emails with the old emails. Only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.
“Most of the emails were never examined, even though they made up potentially 10 times the evidence†of what was reviewed in the original year-long case that Comey closed in July 2016, said a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation.
Yet even the “extremely narrow” search that was finally conducted, after more than a month of delay, uncovered more classified material sent and/or received by Clinton through her unauthorized basement server, the official said. Contradicting Comey’s testimony, this included highly sensitive information dealing with Israel and the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas. The former secretary of state, however, was never confronted with the sensitive new information and it was never analyzed for damage to national security.
Even though the unique classified material was improperly stored and transmitted on an unsecured device, the FBI did not refer the matter to U.S. intelligence agencies to determine if national security had been compromised, as required under a federally mandated “damage assessment†directive.
The newly discovered classified material “was never previously sent out to the relevant original classification authorities for security review,†the official, who spoke to RealClearInvestigations on the condition of anonymity, said.
This is what Comey told Congress
thanks to the wizardry of our technology,†the FBI was able to eliminate the vast majority of messages as “duplicates†of emails they’d previously seen. Tireless agents, he claimed, then worked “night after night after night†to scrutinize the remaining material.
Here is Sperry talking about the case:
.@RealClearNews reporter @paulsperry_: “Comey told Congress that they had reviewed all of the Clinton emails, hundreds of thousands, that were found on the Weiner laptop. That was not true. They barely looked at any of them. Just 3,000 of 700,000 were individually examined.” pic.twitter.com/vkoX7UKRdG
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 24, 2018
