Redditors May Have Just Found A Smoking Gun In Email Scandal

[staerker]

https://www.reddit.com/user/stonetear

Archive:
http://archive.is/https://www.reddit...ser/stonetear*
https://web.archive.org/web/20160919...s_on_archived/
http://archive.is/FXcao

Posts have been deleted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psiSPhHJgUk

Reddit discussion thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/...mbetta_asking/

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...eddit-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.

[staerker]

https://archive.is/vqAys

[specsaregood]

well that certainly is interesting.

[staerker]

I HAVE FULL ACCESS TO THE SERVER



https://web.archive.org/web/20160919...ss_on_archived

[spudea]

is this the smoking gun? Please explain like i'm 5.

[dannno]

[staerker]

is this the smoking gun? Please explain like i'm 5.

The corrupt FBI is well aware of the following information-- I expect no action.

July 22 2014: Benghazi Committee demands records

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...clinton-emails

The day before, the Benghazi Committee had reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of related records, according the FBI's investigation into Clinton's use of the server.

July 23 2014: Combetta sends unedited? emails to the Clinton's (CESC)

http://nypost.com/2016/09/18/inside-...-email-server/

Combetta noted on July 23, 2014, that he needed to overnight DVDs of archived data to CESC with shipping charges of $46.38.

July 24 2014: Posts on Reddit

Continuing: Deleted emails under subpoena

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...clinton-emails

According to the FBI’s report, an unnamed Platte River Networks technician deleted an archive of emails from the server in March 2015 — after the House Select Committee on Benghazi had issued a subpoena for records relating to the 2012 attack on the Libyan outpost.

FBI document sourced (haven't read through yet) : https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...estigation.pdf

[staerker]

This new exposure is simply that. Don't expect government agencies to prosecute their own, based on leaked information they already had. It does help expose the lack of credibility, however.

[Jan2017]

is this the smoking gun? Please explain like i'm 5.

Holy Chit . . . I am seeing this as just that - a smoking shotgun.
The only thing I'd want to also see is if these are accurate and can be admissable as evidence before a federal grand jury
with the task of deciding the fate of Hillary Rotten Clinton and/or also the Platte River Networks "Oh $#@!" guy.

[Mordan]

Expose the establishment shills!

Vote Trump and expose him as a shill if he doesn't prosecute his friend Hillary.

[Lucille]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-0...14-strip-vips-

At this point, our readers should be intimately familiar with the timeline leading up to the "Oh $#@!" moment when the Platte River Networks employee, Paul Combetta, deleted Hillary's emails despite later admitting to the FBI that he "was aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton's e-mail data on the PRN server" (if not, see "The "Oh $#@!" Moment: Hillary Wiped Her Server With BleachBit Despite Subpoena"). Once Combetta was summoned to testify in front of Congress, we also learned that the FBI had granted Combetta an immunity deal (see "The "Oh $#@!" Guy That Wiped Hillary's Server With BleachBit Was Just Granted Immunity").
[...]
The full thread initiated by Combetta can be viewed here, but below are a couple of the key exchanges.

Combetta started the thread on July 24, 2014 with the following question seeking technical advice on how to "strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email[s]." "Ironically," the day before the Reddit thread appeared, the Benghazi Committee reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of email and other records related to their investigation.
[...]
So, now we have evidence of the Hillary campaign and Platte River Networks conspiring in July 2014 (the day after the Benghazi Committee reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of email records and a full 5 months before Hillary finally delivered all of her emails) to "strip out emails" in an obvious attempt to thwart efforts to collect federal records.

Could someone within the FBI please explain how this does not constitute "intent"?

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...he-rule-of-law

...What’s truly unsettling is that it has been widely taken as read among both the media and the general public that Mrs. Clinton will likely avoid serious legal consequences for her behavior because the Justice Department is ultimately answerable to President Obama – and Democrats will not use the instruments of government to destroy one of their own. Whether that eventually proves true, the sentiment itself reveals a troubling trend in American politics.

While it’s far from unheard of for public officials to apply less-exacting standards to their partisan allies, it’s unnerving that the segments of society charged with keeping those officials in check – namely, the media and the voters – now regard such lack of principle as so unremarkable that it barely merits mention. We have transformed into a country in which it’s difficult to imagine precisely what kind of official malfeasance would be met with more than a shrug of the shoulders.
[...]
That’s the organizing precept of this era in American politics: The rules apply until they put those in power at a disadvantage. Because we’ve arrived at this point incrementally, perhaps we’re not conscious of how sweeping the transformation is. So let’s be clear about what’s at stake: This is a wholesale abandonment of the foundational American principle of the rule of law.

There are only two options available here: Either the country returns to a form of government bound by the strictures of the Constitution and its subordinate laws or we give up the ghost and accept the fact that our politics are now entirely about power rather than principle – that we live in a nation where the president, whether his name is Obama or Trump, is limited only by the boundaries of imagination.

I will add, as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them from oppressive measures, that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interests and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny. If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America -- a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

[Jan2017]

Expose the establishment shills!

Vote Trump and expose him as a shill if he doesn't prosecute his friend Hillary.

if Hillary loses . . . and knowing that the last Christmas/December in office Presidents and Governors tend to issue pardons -
I am thinking she may get a Gerald Ford type moment from O'Bomber . . .

[Lucille]

https://www.lewrockwell.com/politica...ilarys-eraser/

What’s astonishing to me is the fact Team Cankles hired the dumbest IT people they could find. How can you have a job in IT and not know that anything posted on the Internet is forever. There is no deleting stuff. Similarly, they appear to have not fully understood how e-mail works.
[...]
There’s nothing wrong with going on-line for help, but if I’m hiring someone to be my super secret e-mail eraser, I want someone that answers these questions, not the guy that asks them.
[...]
There’s little doubt at this point that members of Team Clinton should have been charged with obstruction of justice, in addition to violation of federal law with regards to classified information. If we had anything resembling the rule of law, most of Team Clinton would be in Federal prison working on deals where they roll on the old bag. Instead, there’s a very real chance she ends up in the White House.

[helmuth_hubener]

Question marks (?) in the title not needed. This is huge, and hilarious! Redditors, trolls, and meme-ers, not to mention private citizens with cell phone cameras, are bringing down Hillary!

[jllundqu]

Once again, I can't see how people aren't going to jail over this.... /apathy/

http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/20/...larys-e-mails/

It appears one of the IT guys who set up the private, unsanctioned email server Hillary Clinton used during her tenure as secretary of State asked redditors to help him delete the evidence.

A Reddit account that appears to belong to Paul Combetta, of Platte River Networks (PRN) — the company that set up Clinton’s email server, which was housed in a bathroom and less secure than a Gmail account — asked other users how to hide emails belonging to a “VIP.” He then tried to cover this up by deleting all of the posts and comments ever posted under that username.

The user, stonetear, which is linked to the email address stonetear@gmail.com, reportedly belongs to Combetta, as the email address is registered to combetta.com and an Etsy username (“stonetear”) belonging to an individual named Paul Combetta, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Steven Nelson.

On Monday, stonetear deleted all of his comments and posts in an attempt to memory hole his pleas for help in disassociating a VIP’s email address from old messages. Archives of stonetear’s activity prior to his deleting spree show he asked fellow redditors for help deleting a “VIP’s” email address from a bunch of archived emails.

The timing of his question is suspicious. His query is dated July 24, 2014 — the day after the State Department agreed to turn over Clinton’s emails to the House committee investigating Clinton’s handling of the terror attack in Benghazi, Nelson noted.

Combetta, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right to silence during a House hearing last week probing Clinton’s unsanctioned use of her private email server while a public employee, was offered immunity by the Department of Justice in exchange for his cooperation with the FBI’s investigation.

[jllundqu]

This report is even more mind blowing!

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...eddit-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.

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 -- after Clinton's use of a private email account was first reported that month by the Times -- 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 delete 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.

More at link

[angelatc]

The Justice Department granted him immunity without a guarantee of testimony. It's either incompetence or corruption. Usually I'm on Team Incompetence, but anybody whose ever watched Law & Order knows that immunity deals are conditional.

[luctor-et-emergo]

I'm with Gary Johnson when it comes to telling the truth.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember all the things you said before...

This is interesting but I doubt anything will come from it.

[jllundqu]

How can this not end up with someone in jail? The user IS Combetta. He is specifically asking how to delete emails for a VERY VIP. Ideations of violence fill my mind.

[Chester Copperpot]

paul cornbread

[Lucille]

//

[angelatc]

ON a side note, how the hell did someone who obviously isn't really very well versed in computer science, much less national security, end up with that account?

[Lucille]

House Committee Demands Interview With "Oh $#@!" Guy By Friday At Noon Over Reddit Thread
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-0...-reddit-thread

Yesterday, we pointed out how the now infamous Reddit thread from Hillary's "Oh $#@!" guy was getting some attention on Capitol Hill. In fact, Mark Meadows (R-NC), Chair of the Government Operations subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee, announced that his committee was reviewing the thread and found the "date of the Reddit post in relationship to the establishment of the Select Committee on Benghazi [to be] troubling." If you're not up to speed on the whole issue then all the details are posted here: "Dear FBI, This Is Intent: Hillary's "Oh $#@!" Guy Sought Reddit Advice On How To 'Strip VIP's Emails'.

Now, according to The Hill, the House Science Committee, led by Lamar Smith (R-TN), is also demanding interviews with Paul Combetta and Bill Thornton, of Platte River Networks, by this Friday at noon. Among other things, Smith noted his concern over Combetta's attempt to delete his relevant Reddit threads shortly after they were discovered yesterday and whether or not the FBI was aware of Combetta's Reddit posts at the time of their investigation.
[...]
Smith threatened to issue a subpoena if interviews with Combetta and Thornton were not scheduled by noon on Friday.

Clearly, this is a potentially extremely embarrassing issue for the FBI if a random analyst was able to uncover relevant facts regarding Hillary's email scandal that were seemingly hiding in plain sight while somehow evading the FBI's "thorough" investigation. The only question now is how FBI Director Comey chooses to handle the embarrassment. We see two potential paths, including: 1) pursue Combetta for potentially excluding relevant disclosures during his FBI interview process or 2) bury the story as quickly as possible in an effort to save face.

We have our guess on Comey's most likely path...what say you?

[jllundqu]

House Committee Demands Interview With "Oh $#@!" Guy By Friday At Noon Over Reddit Thread
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-0...-reddit-thread

those congressman have literally got to be saying, "Are you F-ing kidding me??"

[AZJoe]

This stuff shows unequivocal intent to knowingly violate the law.

Some excellent timelines of events:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com...-the-timeline/

https://sharylattkisson.com/the-clea...clinton-email/

[wizardwatson]

American "too big to jail" politicians when you say, "We have smoking gun for highly illegal activity you are guilty of perpetrating and you could very well face jail time."

[enhanced_deficit]

Wow, this is for real.














House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server
The Hill‎ - 1 day ago
http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...clinton-emails

[Cleaner44]

ON a side note, how the hell did someone who obviously isn't really very well versed in computer science, much less national security, end up with that account?

Government workers.

[RJ Liberty]

His Etsy profile has recently been deleted, but it was archived on the Wayback Machine.

[TheTexan]

Wow, this is for real.

Apparently. On front page of FoxNews.com. So, it must be real.