FBI agents knew about new Clinton emails for weeks before Comey was informed

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The FBI agents involved with the suspended investigation into the private email server Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state reportedly knew for several weeks before FBI Director James Comey was informed that new emails pertinent to that case had been discovered on a computer belonging to Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner.

Officials tell The Washington Post that FBI agents in New York were trying to assess what evidence they had before alerting Comey, but an earlier revelation with more distance from Election Day might have been less likely to draw allegations of political manipulation.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.