Law enforcement sources additionally confirmed to CBS News’ Jeff Pegues that investigators working to review the new emails found on the laptop have obtained the search warrant they had been seeking for the case. The process of looking at and sorting through all of the emails is now proceeding.
Earlier this year, Abedin, under oath in a sworn deposition, said she had given up all relevant electronic devices she had used for emails relating to her work at Clinton’s State Department.
An attorney with Judicial Watch, the conservative-leaning watchdog group, asked Abedin during a deposition in June, “How did you go about searching for what records you may have in your possession to be returned to the State Department?”
“I looked for all the devices that may have any of my State Department work on it and returned — returned — gave them to my attorneys for them to review for all relevant documents. And gave them devices and paper,” Abedin said in response.
Abedin, according to law enforcement sources, was cooperating with officials and “seemed surprised that the emails were there.”