Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit for Tips

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.

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.

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.

From reddit:

Hillary's IT guy, Paul Combetta, aka stonetear, has deleted all of his comments and submissions on his reddit account. Here's an overview for stonetear entire account archived.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/53hzsi/hillarys_it_guy_paul_combetta_aka_stonetear_has/

It’s amazing the double standard isn’t it. I was in my teens when Watergate was going on, and every-single-day for the next 10 years it was headline news and top of the news on every channel. It got so bad I remember we banned the word “Watergate” in my house because we got so sick of hearing it, it gave me a headache. It just went on and on and on and on and on Watergate Watergate Watergate Watergate Watergate Watergate. Actually I think it went on longer than 10 years because I remember the press still harping on about it all the way until the mid - late 1980s.

And now look at today. A Presidential candidate uses her political connections to skate from ONE HUNDRED AND TEN FELONIES??? Oh, let’s just brush that under the rug. Matter of fact what does the press do? Why they defend her and bash her opponent relentlessly. And then we got the ten billion other “gates” that are rarely if ever mentioned by the press - IRS gate: whatever happened with that? Lois Lerner and all that? Totally gone, never hear about it. Benghazi gate, never hear about it unless Trump brings it up. Matter of fact if you do bring it up liberals moan about it being brought up too much. Lying gate: Hillary Clinton caught lying to Congress and just about everybody else. Never hear about it. Oh yes and then we have the all time champions of “gates”, the Clinton co-Presidency in the 1990s which everybody seems to have forgotten about. FBI filegate, Chinagate, Arlingtongate -selling plots in Arlington cemetery to people who never served. Remember that one? Or Whitehouse gate, renting out the White House like a bordello. Travelgate, Cattlegate, Pardongate, Rapegate, Zippergate, Theftgate on and on and on and on. NONE of them EVER mentioned and she is running for POTUS!

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