In his upcoming book October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election, FBI Special Agent John Robertson spills the beans about how he was supposedly ordered by top brass at his agency to erase all findings pertaining to the contents of Anthony Weiner's laptop, which he was assigned to investigate.

Robertson, who worked in the FBI's New York office child sex crimes unit, says that after being ordered to look into the contents of Weiner's laptop – Weiner being the Democrat operative who was married to Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin – officials above Robertson demanded that everything he found be deleted from the hard drive. This reportedly included hundreds of thousands of emails sent and received by Clinton.

"The only advice from his bosses was to erase his office computer, which meant leaving no record of his investigations," reported the DailyMail Online, a British news outlet.

In the Inspector General report put together by Michael Horowitz back in 2018 concerning the "Russian collusion" probe into Donald Trump, Robertson revealed that the FBI was not interested in bringing the failed presidential candidate to justice. Instead, the goal seems to have been one of covering for Clinton at all costs.

"The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come crashing down," Robertson stated on page 302 of the IG report about how the FBI dragged its feet in addressing what he found on Weiner's laptop.

"And my understanding, which is uninformed because … I didn't work the Hillary Clinton matter … My understanding at the time was I am telling you people I have private Hillary Clinton emails, number one, and BlackBerry messages, number two. I'm telling you that we have potentially 10 times the volume that Director Comey said we had on the record."