State Department releases Huma Abedin emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop

By Alex Pappas | Fox News



Anthony Weiner, right, and Huma Abedin appear in court in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The couple asked a New York City judge for privacy in their divorce case. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via AP, Pool)


The State Department on Friday released a batch of work-related emails from the account of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were discovered by the FBI on a laptop belonging to Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Some of the documents released Friday are redacted and marked "classified."


One November 2010 document released Friday shows Abedin forwarding an email to an address that was titled “Anthony Campaign.”


Former FBI Director James Comey said during a congressional hearing earlier this year that he believed Abedin regularly forwarded emails to Weiner for him to print out so she could give them to Clinton.


Comey famously said in July 2016 that Clinton was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified emails on a private server.


That 2010 email was a “callsheet” to Clinton about her upcoming call to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal to warn about the upcoming Cablegate document release from Wikileaks.


The rest of the document is redacted and marked classified as of August 2015.


Abedin is a longtime aide to Clinton who worked at the State Department and on Clinton’s campaign.


Other emails released Friday include talking points or are about upcoming meetings with foreign officials. Also included in the email chains are top Clinton aides like Philippe Reines and Cheryl Mills.


At the time of the emails, Abedin was married to Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who began a 21-month prison sentence last month after being convicted of sexting a 15-year-old girl.


Abedin has since filed for divorce.


The Abedin emails jolted the 2016 presidential race after Comey told Congress just days before the election that FBI agents had found more of Clinton’s messages.


The emails were found on Weiner’s laptop, as the FBI investigated its sexting case against him.


The discovery of the records re-opened the case against Clinton several months after Comey said he wasn’t recommending any charges be filed in the case.


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The conservative group Judicial Watch filed suit against the State Department for all official department emails sent or received by Abedin on a non-state.gov email address.


“This is a major victory,” the group’s president, Tom Fitton, said in a Friday statement. “After years of hard work in federal court, Judicial Watch has forced the State Department to finally allow Americans to see these public documents.”


Fitton added, “That these government docs were on Anthony Weiner’s laptop dramatically illustrates the need for the Justice Department to finally do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law.”

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