How did the FBI search through all those new Clinton emails so fast?

A little over a week after kicking off a firestorm by announcing the FBI was reopening the investigation into the Hillary Clinton email scandal, FBI director James Comey pulled a "whoops, my bad" on Sunday and said there was nothing to see here, move along, please.

Except it's not that easy. Not in 2016. 

There are a lot of questions left unresolved, but the most prominent among them right now is, "how in the hell did the FBI actually scan all these new emails in eight days?"

Thousands and thousands of emails

Investigators found thousands of emails "pertinent" to the Clinton email investigation on devices belonging to Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide. The emails in question were found during an investigation into Weiner's alleged sexting relationship with an underage teen. Read more...