https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/14/what-the-heck-fbi/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 09:28:04 -0400<![CDATA[2. The FBI read Broadwell&#8217;s email, and perhaps a lot of Kelley&#8217;s email (with permission). In order to get the content of the email, the stuff you write in the body of an email, the FBI needs a judge to issue a warrant, which requires that old chestnut, probable cause. Weirdly, the FBI needs only a subpoena to read email content that is more than 180 days old. Additionally, if the FBI want to monitor your email in real-time, a warrant-type &#8220;order&#8221; is required. In this case, the FBI seemed to have obtained a warrant to read Broadwell&#8217;s email after establishing that the emails sent to Kelley came from email accounts associated with Broadwell. But so what? Wouldn&#8217;t the obvious next step in an investigation focused solely on threatening emails be to interview Broadwell? Maybe, but maybe the FBI suspected that there was something bigger at stake, something potentially involving national security, once they were able to identify Broadwell by name. That may be why they decided to read her emails before they spoke to her. In the context of their investigation, it might have been a reasonable assumption.]]>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:15:12 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/14/what-the-heck-fbi-n97468