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.
Hillary Clinton's IT consultant ('stonetear') has been erasing his secret comments from Reddit on redacting her emails made two years ago.
Jim hoft of gatewaypundit says house panel looking in to whether illary ordered it:
And comment above it says the news of it is getting round to the Bernie folks...
CTR (Correct the Record) -a David Brock enterprise- has his meathooks all over the deleting part. He has his crew working overtime deleting any posts on Reddit that implicate Cankles, this IT guy (Stonetear) or any others involved with this issue.
Hillary's IT guy, Stonetear, deleting incriminating posts from reddit
Obama has ruined the image of the Justice Department & the FBI.....
But, it is really treason all around when the GOPestablishment Controlled Congress have do nothing to preserve the integrity of our institutions.
Well it is nowhere on his website now.. that I could find.
Wiki is ON it! Just posted on it too
Man, things happen fast.
#HillarysHacker starting to trend on Twitter!
Where is the so-called ‘opposition’ party, GOP leadership in confronting Comey & Lynch’s malfeascence?
What opposition Party?? The Only Opposition is DONALD J TRUMP AND WE THE PEOPLE!
Tah-dah!!!
Meanwhile...OT...one of Mitch McConnell’s in-laws boats was just caught with NUNETY POUNDS OF COCAINE in Columbia...
Holy crap!
Disregard McConnell. .happened last month. I missed it..
The issue is that the “advice” sought was for how (technically) to commit acts which were ILLEGAL, yes??
The reporters massacres the lede. No one is impressed with the claim that an IT tech consulted anonymously about some random IT move that only techies would be interested in.
The important matter is that the tech was trying to enable Hillary & co. to evade or break the law, yes??
An interesting thought:
According to Reddit, what stonetears was trying to do could not be done.
Does that explain why the emails that were turned over were hardcopies? Since there was no way to effectively sanitize the bits and bytes? It would have had to be done manually in that case, and printed.
As a side dish of fun, hackers have broken HIS password, and their release of "How to Make Calls for Hillary's Phone Bank" may or may not have come from his files.
Looks like pranksters are making calls on Hillary's behalf and logging information into her voter call database.
What kind of a forum is Reddit? I took a look at it. It looked like a bunch of nothing to me...
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