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2016 Postmortem

HoneyBadger

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7. So complicated

Reply to NWCorona (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 08:50 AM

Dec 2016

So on a laptop, you have to get a warrant for each set of emails? How is that even possible unless you know who the emails belong to, meaning that you must already know what is in them. Weiner would have to say, this is my laptop, those are not my emails. I imagine that folks under investigation must say that all the time.

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Huma says neither she nor her husband [View all] triron Dec 2016 OP

she should sue them zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #1

+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #2

Am I tinfoiing here, or are they suspecting that the FBI obtained those emails Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #3

I'm not sure that they would have seen one either way FBaggins Dec 2016 #4

Didn't Anthony hand over the laptop freely? I think looking at her emails is a NWCorona Dec 2016 #5

So complicated HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #7

Early stages of the story, watch it change substantially before we get the full answer Lurks Often Dec 2016 #6

The question here, I think, relates to probable cause. Chiyo-chichi Dec 2016 #8

Huma said the FBI never asked Huma or Weiner to agree to search either. Justice Dec 2016 #9

this whole election is becoming very curious. n/t. okieinpain Dec 2016 #12

Maybe I'm not connecting the dots right, PRETZEL Dec 2016 #10

I trust the fbi as much zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #11