Time to Give Clinton’s Server Technician the Mueller Treatment

NRO ^ | 12/30/2017 | Andrew McCarthy

[mojito]

...I’m thinking it’s a good time for the Justice Department..to show Paul Combetta how it works.

Let’s review a few key facts. On March 2, 2015, the New York Times broke the news that Mrs. Clinton, as secretary of state, had used a homebrew server system for all her official email. The House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi jihadist attack immediately issued letters directing that the emails be preserved, along with a subpoena for them. The server system storing Clinton’s emails was then housed at a private contractor, Platte River Networks (PRN), which by no later than March 9, 2015, was aware of the directive that the emails be preserved....

Combetta was the PRN technician who managed the Clinton server system. Throughout March 2015, he communicated several times with Clinton’s agents, particularly Cheryl Mills (Clinton’s confidant and her chief of staff at the State Department). With the Obama Justice Department’s indulgence, Mills purported to act as Clinton’s attorney in connection with the emails investigation, even though Mills was ineligible to represent Clinton under legal and ethical rules, and because Mills herself was an actor in the facts that were under inquiry. It was in the course of these communications with Clinton’s agents that Combetta deleted Clinton’s emails and attempted to destroy them with BleachBit so they could not be fully reconstructed.

In a nutshell, Combetta had a call with Clinton underlings on March 25, though he has not disclosed which underlings they were, or what was said in the conversation. Two days later (March 27), Clinton lawyer David Kendall informed the House committee that there were no longer any existing emails from Clinton’s tenure. PRN logs indicate that Combetta deleted emails and installed BleachBit on March 31. On that same day, Combetta had a conference call with Mills and Kendall.

[Liz]

[Army Air Corps]

You hit the nail on the head. Also, I think that the Clintons have been using the information in those files since 1993. There must have been some incredible blackmail material in there.

[Logical me]

The Clinton Foundation, Uranium One and Hillary’s bathroom email servers require and demand a Special Prosecutor.

Looks like we won't get it with President Trump and Sessions.

[SERKIT]

Combetta apparently got the ‘Headquarters Treatment’ just like Hillary did. We’ll find out that ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would take the case. Nothing to see here....move along.

[EVO X]

The It guys are low hanging fruit in the email scandal. What is interesting about this is why would Clintonista’s pay for their legal bills unless it keeps them out of jail. I’m a retired IT guy. If someone called me up and said they needed me to erase something right away at all costs, I would certainly have been looking into if I was participating in something illegal. I guess those It guys have no morals..

[varon]

Hillary should have been investigated thoroughly long ago,...............

Hillary should have been prosecuted long ago,

[Qiviut]

Trump’s found a back door to get Hilly because (as you pointed out) the front door is a ‘no go’ for political reasons. He’s a very clever and determined man. I wonder if Hilly is still so full of hubris that she doesn’t see it coming?