Fox News reports that former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in June 2011 when the first of what would become his multiple sexting scandals were made public, is cooperating with FBI agents, and that he gave them the portable computer that has sparked renewed interest in a separate FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified government material.
Because the computer, which is jointly owned by Weiner and his now-estranged wife and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, was handed over for another investigation, the FBI does not require a special search warrant to scan the content of the computer.
Given Weiner's cooperation thus far, media outlets have debated whether Weiner will testify in the matter of the e-mails against his estranged wife Huma Abedin.
Some analysts are going one step further and asking whether Abedin herself might testify against Clinton in order to save herself from criminal charges.
In the meantime, it has only been partially clarified how the emails could have gotten to Weiner's computer. Abedin told her associates in the last few days that she has no idea how they got there.
Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge stated that Abedin may have used the computer to backup her phone lists from her cellphone. During the course of backing up she may have carelessly backed up all of the correspondence in her phone including Clinton's mail correspondence.
FBI Chief Comey has already described Clinton and her aides as “extremely careless” and has said agents found scores of classified emails on Clinton’s own personal server.
Herridge explained that FBI agents who examined Wiener's computer during a separate investigation of his indecent conduct discovered hundreds of thousands of mails and scanned the mails' meta-data. The scan revealed that tens of thousands of mails with State Department addresses, some of them stemming from Hilary Clinton's private server.
Investigating all of these mails will take a number of weeks and it is unlikely that it will be completed before the elections take place.