The investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal just took a new turn. A judge has ordered that the search warrant involved in the renewal of the investigation be unsealed.
The warrant was issued back in October after the FBI asked permission to search the emails on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. During that investigation, which was related to Weiner’s alleged sex scandals, they found Clinton-related emails.
The order to unseal the warrant was given by U.S. District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel. He has ordered it to be unsealed at noon Tuesday, assuming a higher court does not step in.
The judge got involved in the case after a California lawyer, E. Randal Schoenberg, filed suit seeking to have the files unsealed.
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Once revealed, these records will show how it was that the FBI framed their arguments for the search warrant. They should also show how certain the FBI was that the emails would have evidence of a crime within them.
It was on October 28 that FBI Director James Comey sent Congress a letter stating that he had found new evidence in the Clinton email probe. Then, just two days before the election, he sent out a follow-up letter stating that there was no new evidence to change the FBI’s conclusion about not prosecuting Clinton.
In the time since Clinton’s shocking loss, many, including Clinton herself, have said that Comey’s initial letter is what lost her the election.
While Justice Departments prosecutors were at first against the unsealing of these records, they have since agreed to the release.
Prosecutors have asked that some of the names in the documents be redacted to protect their privacy. This includes the names of the FBI agents involved.
