MEP: The FBI obtained a warrant to start reviewing emails found on a laptop used by top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner, according to reports from US media.
The search warrant allows the bureau to scour through some 650,000 emails. The probe is set to check if any of the texts are related to the reopened investigation of the former secretary of state’s private email use.
News of the FBI inquiry comes less than two weeks before the US election.
In a letter to Congress, the agency’s director, James Comey, said new information had prompted an additional review of the case that ended in July.
The FBI believes the emails might be “pertinent” to its previous inquiry into Mrs Clinton’s use of a private server when she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.
The FBI already had a warrant to search Weiner’s laptop, but that only applied to evidence of his allegedly illicit communications with an underage girl.
Abedin claims she has no knowledge of any of her emails being on the electronic device belonging to her husband, CBS News has learned on Sunday. A source told the network that newly-discovered emails belonged to Weiner, not his wife, who left her husband earlier this year over his sexting addiction.