FBI Re-opens Clinton Email Investigation

"Yes, Donald Trump, the FBI Can Vet 650,000 Emails in Eight Days"

FBI director James Comey has had a rough week or so: First he was accused of rigging the election for Donald Trump when he revealed on October 28 that the FBI was investigating new emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and now he’s accused of rigging it against Trump by revealing today that none of those new emails contained anything that would result in criminal charges. But to hear the Trump campaign tell it, that week sounds even harder for Comey: They seem to imagine that the FBI director spent the intervening days poring over those hundreds of thousands of emails himself, one by one.

“You can’t review 650,000 emails in eight days,” Trump said Sunday in a campaign speech in Michigan hours after Comey’s latest update to Congress came out. “You can’t do it, folks. Hillary Clinton is guilty.” Trump supporter General Michael Flynn did the math on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/795392694411468800?ref_src=twsrc^tfw


...But fortunately for Comey’s eyesight—and for Clinton’s presidential campaign—Trump is wrong: the FBI can review hundreds of thousands of emails in a week, using automated search and filtering tools rather than Flynn’s absurd notion of Comey reading the documents manually. “This is not rocket science,” says Jonathan Zdziarski, a forensics expert who’s consulted for law enforcement and worked as a systems administrator. “Eight days is more than enough time to pull this off in a responsible way.”

One former FBI forensics expert even tells WIRED he’s personally assessed far larger collections of data, far faster. “You can triage a dataset like this in a much shorter amount of time,” says the former agent, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid any political backlash. “We’d routinely collect terabytes of data in a search. I’d know what was important before I left the guy’s house.”

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/yes-d...650000-emails-eight-days/?mbid=social_twitter

I'm curious how you can get around State telling this to a a judge:

State Department officials asked a federal court Monday to consider allowing them up to five years for their review of 31,000 pages of emails recovered by the FBI during its year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/s...review-deleted-clinton-emails/article/2606684
 
Maybe the judge should ask that?...or order that.

Of course there may be more to this than the linked story tells...or maybe not.
 
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