The FBI's decision to look into more emails in the Hillary Clinton server probe was based on new documents from a laptop shared by Huma Abedin and her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, but the longtime aide testified in June that she turn over "all the devices" with State Department emails to agency officials.
On June 28, Abedin said under oath in a sworn deposition in a Judicial Watch lawsuit against the State Department to obtain Clinton's emails that she had searched for all the devices she thought had government work on them turn them over the agency, The Daily Beast reports.
"How did you go about searching for what records you may have in your possession to be returned to the State Department?" asked attorney Ramona Cotca for Judicial Watch, according to the deposition.
"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.
Cotca questioned Abedin on what specific devices she turned over to her lawyers in the probe.
"If memory serves me correctly, it was two laptops, a BlackBerry, and some files that I found in my apartment," she said.
She said that the BlackBerry was associated with her Clintonemail.com account, the Daily Beast reports.
Abedin also said that she was "not involved in the process" of selecting which records on the devices would be turned over to State Department attorneys.
"I provided them 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," she said. "They turned the materials in, and I know they did so… ."
Abedin was then asked whether she supplied various credentials to her "Clintonmail.com" account so her attorneys could see "all of the emails that were on that account" — and she said she had, according to the report.
Asked how she was sure, Abedin responded: "I cannot answer that question."
She then told the Judicial Watch attorney that she generally relied on her State Department email through her laptop and BlackBerry for the "vast majority of my work" — though Abedin acknowledged that her personal account was essentially a business account, too.
"I used that for the Clinton family matters and, frankly, I used it for my own personal email, as well," she said.
Abedin helped set up a private email address for Clinton when the secretary of state's tenure started in 2010, the Daily Beast reports.
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