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.