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.
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?"
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.
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."
(Score: 3, Informative) by mechanicjay on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:09PM
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.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JNCF on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:29PM
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: 2) by mechanicjay on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:27PM
That's kind of the classic Clinton conundrum. They cover up because of how something looks or because it might be damaging politically. They get caught in the cover-up, which proves as a distraction from the real issue. By the time it's over, the situation is so muddled and convoluted it's hard to take seriously. I think most of this stuff, if they would just own it rather then being shady about it, would go a long way to making me feel better about supporting HRC's candidacy.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday September 21 2016, @01:58AM
That's exactly what Colin Powell said: https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-7.18.37-PM.png [firstlook.org]
Not as colorful as accusing Bill of "dicking bimbos" though.