Posted on 09/19/2016 2:41:08 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
An army of reddit users believes it has found evidence that former Hillary Clinton computer specialist Paul Combetta solicited free advice regarding Clinton's private email server from users of the popular web forum.
A collaborative investigation showed a reddit user with the username stonetear requested help in relation to retaining and purging email messages after 60 days, and requested advice on how to remove a "VERY VIP" individual's email address from archived content.
The requests match neatly with publicly known dates related to Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state.
Stonetear has deleted the posts, but before doing so, the pages were archived by other individuals.
"ARCHIVE EVERYTHING YOU CAN!!!!" a person wrote on a popular thread on the Donald Trump-supporting subreddit r/The_Donald, as the entries disappeared.
There are several reasons to believe the reddit user is indeed Combetta, who was granted immunity by the Justice Department during its investigation of Clinton's private server after he deleted a large number of emails.
The evidence connecting Combetta to the account is circumstantial, but also voluminous. The inactive website combetta.com is registered to the email address stonetear@gmail.com, a search of domain registration information using the service whois.com indicates. An account for a person named Paul Combetta on the web bazaar Etsy also has the username stonetear.
And, perhaps most damningly, there are the dates.
On July 24, 2014, stonetear posted to reddit:
Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file. Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out.
I am not sure if something like this is possible with PowerShell, or exporting all of the emails to MSG and doing find/replaces with a batch processing program of some sort.
Does anyone have experience with something like this, and/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?
On July 23, 2014, the House Select Committee on Benghazi had reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of records, according to an FBI report released earlier this month on the bureau's probe of her email use.
Stonetear posted to reddit on Dec. 10, 2014:
Hello- I have a client who wants to push out a 60 day email retention policy for certain users. However, they also want these users to have a 'Save Folder' in their Exchange folder list where the users can drop items that they want to hang onto longer than the 60 day window.
All email in any other folder in the mailbox should purge anything older than 60 days (should not apply to calendar or contact items of course). How would I go about this? Some combination of retention and managed folder policy?
The FBI report says that Cheryl Mills, a longtime Clinton aide and attorney, requested in December 2014 that the email retention policy be shortened to 60 days. The FBI report says Mills "instructed [redacted] to modify the email retention policy on Clinton's clintonemail.com e-mail account" but that "according to [redacted] he did not make these changes to Clinton's clintonemail.com account until March 2015."
The report says the person, essentially identified as Combetta by The New York Times, realized in late March 2015 that he had not made the retention change and "had an 'oh sh--' moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015, deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the [Platte River Networks] server and used BleachBit to deleted [sic] the exported .PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton's emails."
An email requesting comment sent to stonetear@gmail.com was not immediately returned, nor was a reddit message sent to stonetear, who also posted apparently nonbusiness content to reddit, including a photo of a small plant growing on filthy car-floor carpet and a comment about an aunt who taught middle school math in Detroit.
Last week, Combetta invoked the right not to testify before the House oversight committee, which is probing Clinton's email practices.
A voicemail left with Platte River Networks, Combetta's employer, was not immediately returned. A staffer indicated there had been a significant number of inquiries on the topic.
Ken Eichner, an attorney for the company, tells U.S. News he is acting as a spokesman addressing the matter, and that he would not be able to comment. He did not deny the apparent connection.
"Right now we are respectfully declining all media inquiries," Eichner said. He said there would be no company statement, before hanging up the phone and ignoring a subsequent call.
what if the Watergate burglars had NEVER gone to jail...?
There’d be total outrage and chaos.
YET, that’s what we have with this guy.
Us news ... Legs
This may be next to knock her down
Awesome! This is starting to get some traction!!
I’m shocked Combetta didn’t find himself going for a walk at 4 o’clock in the morning with Seth Rich.
This go will go to jail...but it may be a while. He’ll go...and probably take a half dozen with him.
Immunity deals are thrown out when the perp fails to fess up all the way - or lie.
Trump will have a different FBI
Is this on Drudge yet?
I take it this info wasn’t discovered by the FBI? If not, then just how “thorough” could their investigation have been?
Thank God James Comey determined there was NO INTENT TO DELETE EMAILS UNDER SUBPOENA
Poor slob is sleeping with one eye open these days, lest he accidentally commit suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head twice.
They gave him immunity, he told them a story, they said “good enough for us!”
I hope this becomes YUGE.
It COMPLETELY establishes the “intent” Comey said was not present.
Reddit users may also want to do searches for earlier questions like: ‘a VIP (very VIP) friend asks what are the best places to hide 200 lb objects in Fort Marcy Park?’ or ‘my VIP (very VIP) boss wants me to find the best way to wash a blue denim dress without someone knowing’ or ‘a very VIP friend asks if ice really reduce swelling of injured lips?’
It occurs to me that you can grant immunity for two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is because you want the truth, and the testimony can help you catch a bigger and guiltier fish.
The more Machavellian second reason, which has only occurred to me recently, is that it's a way to hide the truth if the prosecuting authority wishes to. If you grant immunity, and then don't ask any questions, the information NEVER comes out. It's like the tree falling in the forest where no one is listening.
The Political Insider has good detail on this.
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/hillary-email-it-guy-caught-asked-destroy-evidence/
Nope, an ordinary citizen researcher: Katica
This whole sordid soap opera makes me puke. Anyone who even wrote a derogatory tweet about this could be PC’ed into Hades, whilst this Harridan keeps snidely damning us normal, hard working schlubs for her own political benefit. I hope Trump wipes the gutter she fell into with her and straightens things here and darn soon.
I wasn’t sure if this was going to go mainstream or not. This could be huge. I am sure they will throw others under the bus, but seriously, how can the FBI not reopen things? I dont see how Hillary could survive this, what with her scraping by last time.. but then who knows.. Truth is, as long as this mortally wounds her without getting her replaced, I am good.
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