One of the bits of news to come out of FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee today was the declaration that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin forwarded “classified information” to her husband Anthony Weiner.

While giving an animated defense of the FBI’s announcement that it was looking again at Hillary Clinton’s private email server just days before the November election, Comey said his investigators could see “metadata from this fella Anthony Weiner’s laptop.”

But Weiner is not just some “fella.” He was a Congressman, a failed mayoral candidate and the husband of Clinton’s closest aide.

“What they could see from the metadata was there were thousands of Secretary Clinton’s emails on that device,” Comey said, “including what they thought might be the missing emails from her first three months as Secretary of State.

He said in the initial investigation, the FBI never found emails from Clinton’s first three months in the post.

“If there was evidence she was acting with bad intent, that’s where it would be,” Comey said.

He said he approved the department obtaining a search warrant for the emails.

After that was successful, Comey said his team worked overtime to read the emails.

“They found thousands of new emails, they found classified information on Anthony Weiner. Somehow, her emails are being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information, by her assistant Huma Abedin,” Comey said.

Mishandling classified information, and sharing it with individuals who do not have security clearance is a major crime.

To date, Abedin has not be charged in the case.