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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-say-Doh! dept.

We had submissions from two different Soylentils on this story about an IT worker for the company which managed Hillary Clinton's email server apparently looking for help on how to wipe email addresses.

Clinton's IT contractor sought help removing or replacing to/from addresses on archived emails

The Gateway Pundit reports:

An employee with Platte River Networks, the company in charge of Hillary Clinton's home server, who was granted immunity from Obama's Department of Justice in their investigation of Clinton, reportedly asked for assistance in July 2014 from Reddit users on how to purge emails and how to strip VIP's email address from "a bunch of archived emails":

"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?"

Hillary Clinton IT worker asked Reddit how to tamper with email record

Paul Combetta, the IT guy who used BleachBit to wipe email servers for Hillary Clinton, went on Reddit in July 2014 and asked this question:

Remove or replace to/from address on archived emails?

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.

Paul Combatta was given immunity by the Justice Department.

If you check the timeline you find that in July 2014 there were outstanding FOIA requests but Congress had not yet subpoenaed the email server.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/53h8vk/evidence_of_hillarys_it_guy_paul_combetta_asking/

One of the commenters on the Reddit thread said: "If there was a feature in Exchange that allowed this, it could result in major legal issues."


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:08PM (#404267)

    From the summary:

    If you check the timeline you find that in July 2014 there were outstanding FOIA requests but Congress had not yet subpoenaed the email server.

    Assuming this was the case, this could be entirely legal. FOIA's frequently have lots of things redacted. As an example, imagine Clinton had the email addresses of every cabinet-level official within the government (which, as Secretary of State is fairly probable). Should all of those be given out to the whole world in a simple FOIA request?

    On the surface this seems damning, but truth be told I need to think pretty hard to come up with actual nefarious behaviors masking from/to addresses could hide. There are some, but not nearly as many as first blush would seem.

    Entirely agreed that the optics of this is terrible, and it definitely (and rightly) feeds into the narrative of "tricky Clinton."

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by mechanicjay on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:09PM

    by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:09PM (#404329) Homepage Journal
    The US News article puts forth some claims that are a more bit suspicious as far as timing goes. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/paul-combetta-computer-specialist-who-deleted-hillary-clinton-emails-may-have-asked-reddit-for-tips [usnews.com]:
    • On July 23, 2014, the House Select Committee on Benghazi had reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of records.
    • On July 24, he posted to reddit about his VERY VIP issue
      • So, it seems it all comes down to timing and circumstances. Regardless, it seems to follow the classic Clinton playbook move of the cover-up being worse than the crime. Which is a brilliant play, btw, which they've more or less built their careers on. They can garner sympathy while they claim that they're being unjustly persecuted.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JNCF on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:29PM

      by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:29PM (#404345) Journal

      Regardless, it seems to follow the classic Clinton playbook move of the cover-up being worse than the crime.

      Worse than whatever happened regarding Benghazi, probably, but we don't know the full extent of what was covered up since we haven't gotten a full leak of her deleted emails (yet). The full dirt might be much worse than the cover up. It seems reasonable to assume that it is, seeing as the cover up was blatant even before stonetear got doxxed. Why do a blatant cover up if the truth is less damning?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:40PM (#404401)

    I call BS. The State Department separately went through these emails and redacted a bunch of stuff. It's not the Platte River guy's job to redact.