Former Congressman Anthony Weiner Checks Into Rehab Facility

The DailyMail.com reported on Wednesday that discredited former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner has checked into a rehab facility that minister to sex addiction.

The online version of the British newspaper said electronic devices are banned at the facility, which

The facility segregates men from women. It treats a variety of addictions associated with anonymous sex, exhibitionism and cyber-sex and other acts. Electronics devices are also prohibited from the facility, the online version of the British newspaper said. The facility was not named in the report.

Weiner could not be reached for comment.

Last month, New York police and Federal prosecutors revealed they were investigating Weiner after a separate report by the DailyMail.com. It said he took part in sexually explicit online and cellphone messages with a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina.

Weiner, 52, told the Associated Press last month that he had “likely been the subject of a hoax.” But he did not respond at the time when Reuters’ requested for comment regarding the texting report.

An investigation into those messages also prompted a new FBI probe of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails. Sources close to the matter said some of her emails were discovered on a device connected to the Weiner investigation,

Weiner was once a popular congressman but resigned in 2011. This was after disclosing he had inadvertently sent a lewd picture over Twitter. His campaign for New York City mayor two years later was disrupted after explicit photos he had sent to a young woman in Indiana under the alias “Carlos Danger” surfaced.

Latest scandal triggers separation

After yet another scandal, Huma Abedin, Weiner’s wife and one of Clinton’s top aides, said in August that she was separating from her husband.

Abedin made her announcement after the New York Post reported that Weiner sent photos of his boxer-brief-clad genitals to another woman thru Twitter.

Abedin’s attorney could not immediately be reached to comment on the DailyMail.com report.

 

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FBI Acquires Warrant to Examine Huma Abedin Emails

The Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a search warrant for the private laptop of Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin. According to the reports of NBC News and ABC News on Sunday, the agency will search Abedin’s emails in relation to their on-going investigation regarding Clinton’s emails.

On Sunday, an official source who has knowledge of the current probe said the FBI and Abedin’s representatives deliberated on getting an approval to search Abedin’s computer. Within Abedin’s computer, agents uncovered new emails which may have links to their previous investigation about Clinton’s email. The search will shed new light on allegations about how Clinton managed classified information when she was still the Secretary of State.

Huma Abedin’s woes started when her disgraced husband, the former New York Representative Anthony Weiner was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old teenager.

The computer used by Weiner was seized during the time of the investigation.

Federal authorities initiated the review of the said computer which was shared by Abedin and her husband because of the current sexual charges probe. Clinton’s controversial emails emerged when authorities started the investigation about Weiner’s sexual charges.

Massive number of Emails to be processed

The computer contains as much as 650,000 emails according to The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. However, authorities are uncertain of how many emails are related to their current “Clinton email server” investigation.

The FBI Director, James Comey said on Friday that the agency discovered new emails. This new batch may be associated with their inquiry of the private email Clinton used. In July, Comey confirmed that Clinton mistreated classified information on her private email. However, he would not suggest filing any criminal charges against the democratic candidate.

The Democratic supporters, infuriated by Comey’s statement on Friday, questioned the bureau on why they are examining more emails. For them, the bureau provided insufficient details which subsequently lead to a range of conspiracy theories against Clinton.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch pleaded Comey not to disclose the new findings on Clinton’s email. She said it will interfere with the election, which is a violation of the Justice Department’s policy.

Meanwhile, the Republican candidate, Donald Trump was pleased with Comey’s statement concerning  the latest email review. For Trump, America needs to know more of the candidate’s behavior prior to voting.

The FBI has not made any formal communication to either Clinton’s or Abedin’s camp.

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Huge blow for Clinton as FBI dramatically reopens ‘secret server’ email probe

Hillary Clinton was dealt a potentially devastating blow to her presidential campaign today when the FBI dramatically re-opened their ‘secret server’ email probe.

With just 11 days to go before America votes for its next president, the news could hardly have come at a worse time.

The Clinton campaign said the decision to revisit the case so close to the election was “extraordinary,” and urged the FBI to provide more details.

This shock development has come after devices belonging to Clinton’s chief aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner were seized.

FBI

The devices in question formed part of an FBI investigation into sex texts that Weiner allegedly sent to a 15-year-old girl.

FBI director James Comey told Congress that new emails “that appear to be pertinent to the [Clinton] investigation” have been discovered.

He said that an investigative team is seeking to determine whether classified information was contained in the emails and whether any of them were ‘significant’.

Clinton was apparently totally unaware of this breaking news story as she traveled by air to a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this morning.

The plane she was traveling in had no Internet coverage and she remained silent when reporters, waiting on the tarmac as her plane landed, shouted questions about the re-opened email investigation.

She simply smiled and waved to reporters as she disembarked from the aircraft and got into her Secret Service SUV.

Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine, campaigning in Tallahassee, Tennessee, today would only say when asked to comment: “I’ve got to read a little more.”

“Bigger than Watergate” – Trump

President Obama also ignored reporters’ questions about the story as he left the White House to board Marine Force One today.

Republican rival Donald Trump was quick to seize on the news saying it was “bigger than Watergate.”

As he spoke in Manchester, New Hampshire, supporters would be heard chanting “lock her up!”

Trump told the rally: “The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s investigation

Criminal

“And they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America.

“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office. This is bigger than Watergate.”

FBI chief Comey sent the letter to a number of people including  the heads of the of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Judiciary Committees, the House’s Oversight Committee and the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee.

He wrote: “In connection with an unrelated case the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.

Classified

“[T]he FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to access their importance to our investigation.”

In Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Trump’s running mate Mike Pence was cheered as he told a rally: ‘We commend the FBI for having the courage to re-open this case because no-one is above the law.’

Pence later tweeted: ‘We call on the FBI to immediately release all emails pertinent to their investigation. Americans have the right to know before Election Day.’

BREAKING NEWS → The FBI is reopening its investigation into Secretary Hillary Clinton.

My full statement ⇩ http://pic.twitter.com/LHfyg46dWk

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) October 28, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Clinton had “nobody but herself to blame” and added: “She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information.

Reckless

“This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators.

“I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused Clinton of a “fundamental lack of judgment and disregard for protecting and handling our nation’s highly classified secrets.”

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