FBI Director Comey misstated key Clinton e-mail evidence at hearing

Apparently, FBI Director James Comey overstated key findings involving the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation during testimony to Congress recently. In defending the probe, Director Comey offered seemingly new details to underscore the seriousness of the situation FBI agents faced last fall when they discovered thousands of Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s e-mails on the computer of her husband, Anthony Weiner. “Somehow, her e-mails were being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information,” Director Comey said, adding later, “His then-spouse Huma Abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him for him I think to print out for her so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state.” At another point in the testimony, Comey said Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contain classified information.’’

Neither of those statements is accurate, apparently. The inquiry found that Abedin did occasionally forward e-mails to her husband for printing, but it was a far smaller number than Director Comey described, and it wasn’t a “regular practice.”