Huma Abedin deposition about emails taken under oath!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 30, 2016 - In a normal election year, a normal candidate’s close aide who caused even minor embarrassment to a campaign so near to Election Day would be whisked away as quickly as possible to avoid becoming a distraction.

But Huma Abedin is not simply a close aide, she’s a critical member of Hillary Clinton’s tiny inner circle that protects and - at times - enables the deeply flawed and secretive Democrat nominee.

So despite FBI Director James Comey’s announcement that the bureau is reviewing emails from Abedin’s time at the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division found on a laptop she shared with her soon-to-be ex-husband Anthony Weiner, the campaign made clear over the weekend that she’s not going anywhere. John Podesta, the chairman of the Clinton campaign, told reporters on a conference call that Abedin had been nothing but cooperative with investigators and sat for hours of depositions last summer as part of a civil lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.

"There's nothing that she's done that we think calls into question anything that she's done with respect to this investigation… we fully stand behind her," Podesta said.

But the new information that the FBI found Department of State-related emails on her home laptop also calls into question whether Abedin in fact turned over all the devices she used to send and receive email while working at State. For her part, Abedin told the FBI she didn't know her emails were on the laptop.

On June 28, 2016, Abedin said under oath in a sworn deposition that she looked for all devices that she thought contained government work on them so the records could be given to the Department of State.

“How did you go about searching for what records you may have in your possession to be returned to the State Department?” Attorney Ramona Cotca for Judicial Watch asked her.

“I looked for all the devices that may have any of my State Department work on it and returned - gave them to my attorneys for them to review for all relevant documents; and gave them devices and paper,” Abedin answered.

Cotca then asked Abedin specifically what devices she gave her attorneys.

“If memory serves me correctly, it was two laptops, a BlackBerry, and some files that I found in my apartment,” Abedin said, adding the BlackBerry was associated with her Clintonemail.com account.

Abedin maintained that she was “not involved in the process” of what records on her devices would be given to the Department of State.

“I provided them [her attorneys] with the devices and the materials and asked them to find whatever they thought was relevant and appropriate, whatever was their determination as to what was a federal record, and they did. They turned the materials in, and I know they did so.”

Abedin was asked whether she supplied her login, password and other credentials to her Clintonemail.com account so that her attorneys could eyeball “all the emails that were on that account.” Abedin said she had.

Abedin said her practice was to rely on her Department of State email through her laptop and BlackBerry for the “vast majority of my work” but acknowledged her personal account was a de facto business account too.

“I used that for the Clinton family matters and, frankly, I used it for my own personal e-mail, as well,” she testified.

Abedin helped set up a private email address for Clinton at the start of her tenure as secretary of state, according to Department of State emails. In one email, Clinton wrote Abedin on Nov. 12, 2010: “I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.”

Asked about this exchange in her deposition, Abedin said she interpreted Clinton’s words to mean the secretary of state hoped personal matters were “not accessible to anybody”.

“I would imagine anybody who has personal e-mail doesn’t want that personal e-mail to be read by anybody else,” Abedin said.