James Comey Wrongly Claimed Abedin Funneled Clinton Emails To Weiner
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(JTA) — FBI Director James Comey reportedly misstated the involvement of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her now-estranged husband Anthony Weiner in the email scandal his office investigated during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Comey said that Abedin was forwarding hundreds of thousands of emails, some with classified information, to her husband to print out for her.
Pro-Publica and The Washington Post, citing unnamed FBI officials close to the investigation, reported Tuesday that Abedin occasionally forwarded a small number of emails to her husband for printing and that none were marked classified, though a small number were later deemed to contain classified information.
Officials are considering whether and how to clarify the misstatements, according to ProPublica, which first reported that Comey did not testify truthfully in last week’s testimony.
Comey was asked why it was necessary for the FBI director to reveal on Oct. 28, less than two weeks before the presidential election, that he was set to reopen an investigation into Clinton’s emails.
Comey explained there was evidence that new emails from Clinton could be found on a laptop seized from Weiner, the Jewish former congressman who resigned in a sexting scandal and now is under investigation allegedly for sexting with a minor.
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