Posted on 09/12/2016 6:48:00 AM PDT by Lorianne
Last week, after the FBI dropped their Friday before Labor Day weekend bomb on Hillary, we wrote about the various events leading up to the deletion of Hillary's emails (full details here: "The "Oh Shit" Moment: Hillary Wiped Her Server With BleachBit Despite Subpoena"). At the end of that post we concluded that the "Undisclosed PRN Staff Member" managing Hillary's servers on behalf of Platte River Networks had seemingly thrown himself under the bus by admitting to the FBI that he "was aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton's e-mail data on the PRN server" but then went ahead and deleted the emails anyway. According to new info from the New York Times, that "Undisclosed PRN Staff Member" is Paul Combetta and apparently his brazen honesty during FBI interviews came only after receiving an immunity deal from the Justice Department. For those who "do not recall" the specific timeline leading up to Combetta wiping Hillary's server, here is a breif recap: December 2014 / January 2015 – “Undisclosed Clinton staff member” instructs Combetta to remove archives of Clinton emails from PRN server but he forgets.
March 4, 2015 – Hillary receives subpoena from House Select Committee on Benghazi instructing her to preserve and deliver all emails from her personal servers.
March 25, 2015 – Combetta has a conference call with “President Clinton’s Staff.”
March 25 – 31, 2015 – Combetta has “oh shit” moment and realizes he forgot to wipe Hillary’s email archive from the PRN server back in December…which he promptly does using BleachBit.
February 18, 2016 - Combetta meets with FBI and denies knowing about the existense of the subpoena from the House Select Committee on Benghazi at the time he wiped Hillary's server.
May 3, 2016 - Combetta has follow-up meeting with the FBI and admits that he "was aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton's e-mail data on the PRN server."
Given this fact pattern, we would be very curious to know exactly when Paul Combetta was granted immunity by the Justice Department. Perhaps that immunity was granted sometime after February 18, 2016, when Combetta had troubles recalling the issuance of a subpoena, but before May 3, 2016, when he seemed to recover from his unfortunate bout of amnesia. Just a guess. Earlier this week, the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent the following letter to Platte River Networks asking officials to appear before Congress to testify on how Hillary's email account was set up and how the messages were deleted. That said, it's now unclear whether this request for testimony will go anywhere given the new information that Combetta has been granted immunity.
But just in case, Hillary spokesman, Brian Fallon, wants you to know that Paul Combetta went totally rogue and made a unilateral decision to wipe Hillary's emails without any input from anyone connected to the Hillary campaign. His decisions to committ several federal crimes were all his own. Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said that the deletions by the specialist, who worked for a Colorado company called Platte River Networks, had already been “thoroughly examined by the F.B.I. prior to its decision to close out this case.”
“As the F.B.I.’s report notes,” Mr. Fallon said, “neither Hillary Clinton nor her attorneys had knowledge of the Platte River Network employee’s actions. It appears he acted on his own and against guidance given by both Clinton’s and Platte River’s attorneys to retain all data in compliance with a congressional preservation request.”
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-02/fbi-report-shows-how-bleachbit-deleted-hillary-clintons-oh-shit-moment
It means nothing. There’s only 50+ days left to run out the clock. Comey is already covering for Clinton
I hope he will end up paying for his ‘covering’.
Wondering when he will get immunity.
Comey probably rationalized it because she is on the verge of the dirt nap.
Depending on the conditions of the immunity it can be revoked if he’s not forth coming.
“...Mr. Fallon said, “neither Hillary Clinton nor her attorneys had knowledge of the Platte River Network employee’s actions. It appears he acted on his own and against guidance given by both Clinton’s and Platte River’s attorneys to retain all data in compliance with a congressional preservation request.”
Laughable, if it weren’t so serious
You mean the Clinton Foundation's board member? That Comey?..............
Comey is as deep in the CF as they are. He may be thinking of buying some property in Uruguay...............
When I first heard about the immunity grant, I presumed it was so the investigation could get information on higher ups in the Hillary cabal.
Now I’m more of a mind that the immunity was granted to shut him up. He probably wasn’t asked anything of importance by the FBI, and plead the Fifth in hearings and civil suits, such as those by Judicial Watch.
Will President elect Trump make comey an offer he can’t refuse?
I have a question for the techies, can the IRS and the infamous fbi recover data wiped with BB?
If Hillary’s poll numbers keep dropping, the FBI/DOJ may revisit this as an incentive for Hillary to drop out for health reasons.
All he has to do is appoint a special prosecutor to see if recent facts warrant a review and an investigation. Comey’s recommendation is not an adjudication of innocence, nor is Lynch’s indecently quick acceptance of the recommendation.
Or, he can allow the prosecutor to focus on the Foundation rather than the email security law violations. After all, what was the motive? It was privacy.
I doubt he has immunity from Hillary’s goon squad.
If he signed an affidavit to this he might as well have signed his own death warrant.
If he is on record as being solely responsible for the deleted emails he may just meet with an unfortunate accident that conveniently ensures that he never recants that testimony.
headline sux....”was just granted ?
no where is there an indication of “why” Paul Combetta did what he did.
I would not be surprised if the “fainting” was an act....similar to that “romantic” dancing on the beach with SicKKK Willie.
The little girl photo-op was clearly a preplanned set-up considering pneumonia is contagious.
Alinsky: “By any means necessary”
Or to hopefully to get the news off her “deplorables” and “irredemable” comments. Not sure about the MSM but Fox and Fox Biz covered it this a.m. and, as I understand it, twitter and other social media is abuzz with both.
Wayne Newton was on F&F this a.m. and said he was in the deblorables basket (he’s been a friend of Trump’s for a number of years and he said he was a Trump supporter from the start).
Paul Combetta. Kinda looks like Pajama Boy, doesn't he?
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