Election 2016 Update 10-31

State of the Election 2016

Trump Meteor Forecast

The Trump Meteor has a 26% of striking the Earth and destroying civilization as we know it.

Update on the Techy Stuff

In my last update, I went over the technological aspects of Comey's announcement. In part, I voiced some consternation as to why some basic scanning had not been done. Today, I have an answer to that question. Remembering that the investigation up till late last week only involved Anthony Weiner, the FBI needed a new warrant to go into Huma Abedin's emails. They obtained that warrant today.

Now that they have the warrant, the FBI appears to be following steps similar to what I outlined. As per Pete Williams reporting on NBC:

“They’ll narrow them down to look at just those dating from the time Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Then they’ll weed out any that are not about government business. Agents will use automated software to search what’s left for duplicates they’ve already found during the investigation of the Clinton e-mail server. Any that remain will be checked for classified information,” Williams reported on “Today” this morning. “Officials say there’s no way to tell how long that will take. But they say if it goes quickly, and nothing classified is found, the FBI could say so within the next few days. It largely depends on how many of the e-mails are duplicates and how many are new to the investigators.”

Abedin is also stating that she does know how the emails got there, suggesting that it may have happened through an automated process (and assuming she is telling the truth). This would be similar to what I described would happen if she had setup her email account on it. Though there are other automated process that I would need more information before ruling out.

Maybe Not Clinton

A subtle point is that none of the statements have just used the word "Clinton" . The statements have used the word "Clinton Investigation". We tend to forget that the investigation towards the private servers was not just about Clinton. It was about everyone using the servers. So, the Comey statements may only be considering Abedin as culpable. Again, another detail that should have been clarified.

This is me reading in between the lines, so remember to consider that as you form your own opinion.