The Anthony Weiner scandal was from 2011. What are they doing with the emails now????

[Maraya1969]

Doesn't this not look like a bad set up or what?

[canetoad]

1. I think

This is more to do with the August 2016 scandal.

[LeftInTX]

2. He broke the law (federal law) by sexting with a minor in NC

It happened a few months ago.

[wishstar]

3. There is a new 2016 scandal allegedly involving a 15 yr old from NC, causing FBI involvement

[Hortensis]

4. No doubt. New video of Trump degrading woman in public

is SO disgusting that it's degrading merely to watch. Yet even large numbers of Hillary supporters are talking about nothing but this latest Hill-late email distraction.

If we lose the house, and even the senate, we can look to how easily we are distracted from winning compared to how Hillary haters won't be distracted from attack.

Video Shows Donald Trump Sexually Humiliating Woman Before Large Audience
He decided to take revenge on another former Miss Universe.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jennifer-hawkins-video_us_58137b85e4b0390e69cfbbba

[pat_k]

5. Looking at earlier email while investigating crime alleged to have occurred in 2016

Raises a 4th amendment problem (i.e., it was a violation of 4th amendment to look at earlier email at all, much less look at it and then try to expand warrant to a completely separate case.

...the alleged Weiner texting crimes apparently occurred in 2016.,,

4th amendment problem:

Clinton emails were from her time as secretary of state, which was several years earlier from 2009 to 2013. If I’m right that there was a several-year gap between the warrant crime and the second investigation, it’s not clear the government could search through older emails for evidence of such a recent crime.

Another problem is with any claim of "plain view" exception. That is, a claim that the older email belonging to person not under investigation for crime (Abedin) was "fair game" because it was in "plain view."

The Fourth Amendment requires the initial look at the emails to generate “immediate” probable cause that they are evidence of a crime first, before their seizure is permitted and used to get a second warrant...

The Fourth Amendment plain view standard doesn’t allow a seizure of emails based on a mere we-hope-to-later-determine standard.

More on WaPo analysis how FBI attempt to expand is a violation of 4th amendment:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512561092