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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