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Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from U.S. News and World Report: 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. Stonetear posted to reddit on July 24, 2014: "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..." U.S. News and World Reports adds: "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 submitted an additional post to reddit on Dec. 10, 2014 that reads: "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?"
UPDATE 9/19/2016: Slashdot reader NotInHere points out that there is a Slashdot user named "StoneTear" as well.
UPDATE 9/19/2016: Slashdot reader NotInHere points out that there is a Slashdot user named "StoneTear" as well.
Whoop There it is!
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Very VIP, and I mean, Very, Very, Very VIP.
50% of IT is knowing where to go for help
To be fair, no one knows how to manage Outlook. (Or any full-fledged email service.)
Email, calendaring, and contacts are a nightmare.
And when I say "no one", I'm including Microsoft and Google. Yes, I've used their professional, big contract big dollar solutions.
She's been playing by Animal Farm -
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others....
I seem to remember when Americans were begin snooped on, the argument for doing so pretty much always devolved to -
"You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide."
Seems to me politicians should be held to that standard BEFORE the average citizen is.....
Full transparency for politicians before we have our rights violated.
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He was on Face the Nation YESTERDAY talking up racial profiling.
She has a plan. It's the same plan that she always uses. As Peggy Noonan recently wrote, the Clinton Scandal Ritual is to:
Lie, deny, revise, claim not to remember specifics, stall for time. When it passes, call the story “old news” full of questions that have already been answered. “As I’ve repeatedly said . . .”
I would love if this will be the thing that stops Hillary, but she's as slippery as a greased weasel. She's already got the FBI and the Attorney General in her pocket so there's really no one left to prosecute her.
If this story gets any traction at all, watch how quickly she will throw this guy and anyone else standing near him under the bus without a second thought.
Oh, OK. It might as well be an "army of Anonymous Cowards from Slashdot". For a second, I thought this was real.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Just a quick list of scandals from which she has recovered (source: http://www.redstate.com/califo...):
OTOH Trump doesn't hide that he's a flagrant racist and that's totally cool.
Found the SJW.
Because, wanting to control the borders and who/what enters like every other nation does is "racist".
Because, not allowing many thousands of unvetted (asking them "are you a terrorist?" is not vetting) Muslim military-aged men from Syria to be shipped into the US is "racist".
I won't be voting for either Trump or Hillary. Both, I'm certain, have more than earned prison cells & orange pantsuits if the legal system actually worked and Rule of Law was still a thing in the US.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
The lies will continue until trust in Hillary improves.
Are you willing to put the survival of your employer above your own and will you do blatantly illegal things for them? Are you socially liberal but psychologically pathological? Have you misplaced your conscience so thoroughly you sometimes wonder if you ever had one? Have you kidnapped an albino child and sacrificed them to Yog-Sothoth over a deep ocean trench? If not, would you for the chance at $50k per year and mediocre benefits?
If so there is one of these jobs waiting for you! Just place the tattered remains of your soul in the receptacle and you're in! Please stay out of the sun for the rest of your life, which should last forever now.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
Once they tracked down his username they found out a few other things about him
Apparently email isn't the only thing he has trouble deleting https://archive.is/gIDN2
Taste In Porn is interesting https://archive.is/Ct3eY https://archive.is/m78jo
I could see how working with Hillary could induce Bondage fantasies
Here's the rest of his stuff on Reddit
http://archive.is/KYaF0 http://archive.is/TCbPU http://archive.is/OoSMr http://archive.is/OoSMr http://archive.is/MjyK3 http://archive.is/lDzk0 http://archive.is/o4hrr http://archive.is/o4hrr http://archive.is/cfCeL http://archive.is/mYXp3 http://archive.is/kTDoF http://archive.is/iOjnh http://archive.is/TaYXV http://archive.is/EgZJR http://archive.is/MU0TL http://archive.is/WBG4m http://archive.is/HHHQi http://archive.is/Sq21A http://archive.is/zmpKK
Let's just get rid of both the Republican and Democrat candidates this year. The Green and Libertarian parties are a good enough substitute for both and as much as you might disagree with some of their stances, their candidates aren't morally bankrupt idiots. Otherwise I think I'm just going to write in Caligula's horse this year.
Seems there is a slashdot user named stonetear as well.
https://slashdot.org/~stonetea...
His comments:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
on Tuesday April 16, 2002, (archived link)
The IIS patches aren't on liveupdate, you have to go get them
on Thursday January 24, 2002, (archived link)
I'm contracted to a state government, and let me tell you, everyone here saves EVERYthing for cover-your-ass purposes.. it's really sad to see every little memo back to 1997 in someone's inbox taking up PHAT amounts of disk space on the GroupWise server ... sigh
Thursday July 19, 2001, (archived link)
Gasbag Joe Liberman ... LOL right on! I just moved from Michigan, and he's one quack I'm not sorry to see gone. Well everyone knows that the liberal agenda includes removing any personal responsibility or blame for your actions from you, and putting them in the lap of big scary corporations and 'the internet' and such. Blah. ;) ST
Note: I do think clinton should win, but I'm still doing this, and if its just for transparency purposes.
Racial profiling, like "I bet the guy who blew up the bomb in Chelsea is more likely to answer to the name 'Akbar' than he is 'O'Toole', so let's search the hookah bars before the Irish pubs, we ain't gotta lot of time," that kind of racial profiling? That's not racism, that's common sense allocation of resources in a crisis.
Please read Saint Regan's testimony about Iran-Contra ... you may find a few I don't recalls there.
There were BTW some rather public statements about personal mails being redacted from the trove.
I'm sure Scooter Libby could recount some episodes of obfuscation and information mis management.
Are we under the impression that Next President Clinton is the only politician to mis handle information?
If that is really the best scandal you can come up with... well its just does not rise any where near the appropriate level.
If the voters will return Boy George to White House after falsifying intelligence and sending the US to an unnecessary and permanent war....
wellI I don't think an email server is going to cut the controversy mustard.
You seriously would vote for someone to uphold the "rule of law" who it seems has no respect for the law???
Seriously amazing. So you are fine with one set of rules for the "elite" and one set for everyone else eh?
Trump may be slime, but at the moment I don't think there is any sort of definitive proof he's broken the law,. If there were it almost certainly would have come
out by now and be front page headlines for every news organization in the US....
Here's a thought how about the DNC replaces her with someone who has NOT attempted to break the law? Failing that how about someone who doesn't have a paper trail showing they tried??????
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And a good third of it is knowing the limits of your skills and when you need to go for help.
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There is nothing to be fair about. This guy had no business managing Exchange if he's asking questions like this. A simple search on Google would have given him an answer. If he's asking these sorts of questions he's maybe only slightly above the average help desk person who is answering the main line and reading from scripts and I think that is pushing it.
Not to mention his unprofessional millennial speak "Very VIP, really VERY VIP". 1st rule of being a professional, you don't talk about your shit, especially when you're up to no good. He's a dumbass from the ground up.
I've managed Exchange and Outlook just fine and in a smaller environment (medium size business) it's pretty brain dead for someone with training. Exchange only becomes a nasty beast when you have a large organization and Hillary's personal email server doesn't qualify as that. They really should have been using some sort of Linux solution to start with. Then replacing HRC's email address would have been pretty simple since they'd just have to run a script to edit a bunch of text files. Editing a saved PST or the Exchange DB, if anyone knows Exchange, well good fucking luck with that. Google for some tools and maybe you'll run across something.
That if HRC doesn't win in November, she'll be in jail a year from November?
Get a DOJ not paired with the dems, and HRC's defenses fall apart. She's done too much, she either pardons herself or goes to jail.
When NY Times called her a "congenital liar" in 1996, the only question was, whether "congenital" was the right term — the "liar" was deemed quite apropos.
Fast forward 20 years to 2016, her loyal supporters — such as yourself — beg her to, please, stop lying .
So, her being a liar is well-known and perfectly established — and has been for many years. Presumably, all those lies have not been enough to dissuade her from supporting her until recently. Why are you abandoning her now, when she needs you most?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
The "Birther" movement appeared during the primary season of 2008, when Obama was fighting Clinton for the nomination. It was pushed by Doyle, the Clinton campaign manager, and Blumenthal, Clinton's long time friend, employee, and personal hatchetman. It was pushed so hard that a news agency actually sent a reporter to Kenya to investigate it.
The Clinton campaign also revealed a picture of Obama dressed up in "Kenyan" garb, as part of this effort, and Obama personally called Clinton out for this "disgusting" attack on him.
When interviewed, Clinton said she didn't know about his birth or religion. Not exactly shooting down the birther rumors her campaign spread, is it?
So while Trump may have not been correct when that she - to whit, Hillary Clinton - personally spoke those exact words. But since her CAMPAIGN did push those rumors, and she is well known as a micromanager, and a dirty and vindictive fighter, it is very hard to believe that she didn't know about the claims her campaign was making trying to get her elected.
Of course, the ACTUAL originator of the Birther claims was a guy that produced a book jacket biography for Obama's first book that was never written. That bio explicitly claimed that Obama was born in Kenya. The writer that produced that book jacket biography that was sent to the publishers? No one seens to know who it was, but it initials were B.O. and it's rumored he was last spotted at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.
Watergate - Hillary was fired from the staff of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Nixon Watergate scandal in 1974 by her supervisor, Democrat Jerry Zeifman, because she was a liar [foxnews.com]. Hillary "conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Except that Zeifman was not her supervisor, and she wasn't fired http://www.snopes.com/politics...
as much as you might disagree with some of their stances, their candidates aren't morally bankrupt idiots
I think that's probably not true. If they attracted the focus of other candidates, you would quickly find them morally bankrupt also.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The problem with most of the minor parties is that behind the occasional great ideal lives a world of incredible stupidity that would end society as we know it.
Well at least that's how it typically happens in most places.
Funny that my current attitude concerning Clinton comes from the death of another SA goon.
So far nobody's got any real dirt on Clinton.
Aside from the Obama administration who has an interest in protecting Clinton. And it's just national security felonies. No big deal.
Meanwhile Bush Jr deleted 22 million emails.
Because that's all the same once you ignore the differences such as Clinton's grossly negligent mishandling of classified information or intentional bypassing of State Department IT. And that Bush didn't do it, but rather the Republican National Committee.
I'm tired of people blowing off Clinton's long train of scandals and crimes with the same old rationalizations: "you can't prove it" and "Bush/some other Republican did it too".
Donald Trump does not hide it, that's true. That's because he, by all appearances, is not racist.
But, if you accuse him of racism, you have ample evidence, don't you? Let's see it, shall we? Be sure, though, to include only the things Trump actually said or did — not somebody else paraphrasing and otherwise engaging in hearsay...
Spent years suggesting that a black president wasn't born in the US, despite a ton of excellent evidence to the contrary.
Said a judge of Mexican heritage wasn't fit to judge him due to his heritage.
While speaking about illegal immigrants has focused pretty exclusively on those of Mexican ethnicity, has also engaged in broad (and inaccurate) generalizations about that group.
Has proposed banning members of a religion from the US (very similar to racism).
Regularly stereotypes blacks "you've got nothing to lose", suggesting that they're one monolithic underclass.
Extreme reluctance to reject or disavow David Duke or other white supremacists, same with racist memes he happens to retweet (accidental or not).
Now I don't know if he's personally racist or now, but many of the things he says and does are quite racist.
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How is that racism?
I did ask for actual quotes didn't I? And yet, you chose to paraphrase... What are you trying to slip here, uhm?
What Trump actually said, was that the judge — a Mexican racist himself ("La Raza" member) — may have a conflict of interest. If it is Ok to suspect, that an All-white jury may be unfair to a Black defendant, why is it "racist" to suspect, a Mexican may be unfair to a White one?
Not racism. Stick to the topic.
Never heard of it. Actual quotes, please.
Why is every Republican supposed to "disavow" Duke — except to play into the opponents trap of accepting some guilt (sort of like disavowing beating of one's wife)?
Would Bernie Sanders disavow Lenin? Has Hillary Clinton disavowed Al Sharpton, who, unlike Duke, actually encouraged racial violence and is responsible for at least one Jew getting killed by a Black mob? No, she not only didn't disavow the asshole, she actively sought his endorsement and attended a rally at his organization.
So far, the number of actual racist quotes is a perfect zero... Keep trying...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Not to mention his unprofessional millennial speak "Very VIP, really VERY VIP". 1st rule of being a professional, you don't talk about your shit, especially when you're up to no good. He's a dumbass from the ground up.
Either that, or it wasn't him, but someone who wanted it to look like him...
This leaves no room for doubt.
So what?
When Comey laid out all. of. the. elements. necessary for conviction of thousands of counts of espionage act violations, and then recommended not prosecuting someone that he knows bloody well is guilty, it was made perfectly clear that this administration won't prosecute a Clinton.
The only way she ever sees justice is if she loses the election, and I wouldn't count on Trump to do the right thing, either.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
How is that racism?
It's an example extra layer of scrutiny applied only when the candidate is black. One only needs see the relative disinterest with which the birthers treated the fact that the exact scenario they were speculating about applied directly to Cruz.
Nothing, I just don't want to waste time.
What Trump actually said, was that the judge — a Mexican racist himself ("La Raza" member) — may have a conflict of interest.
Which was dumb, despite the fact they kept confusing different "La Raza"s. But more to the point lots of white judges are members of ethnic professional groups, no one accuses them of being racist, so only making it an issue when it's a Mexican judge in a group for Mexican judges is racist.
If it is Ok to suspect, that an All-white jury may be unfair to a Black defendant, why is it "racist" to suspect, a Mexican may be unfair to a White one?
Judges, unlike juries, have specific training on how to deal with biases. And there's no reason to think that a Mexican would have a negative stereotype about a German.
Muslim and Arab are highly correlated, particularly in the minds of Islamaphobes.
Regularly stereotypes blacks "you've got nothing to lose", suggesting that they're one monolithic underclass.
Never heard of it. Actual quotes, please.
Meh, why not.
Notice the stream of negative stereotypes and a false claim of 58% black youth unemployment.
He's not even talking to a black crowd, he's making his "outreach" to a white crowd.
If you're explicitly asked about it? Yes.
If David Duke and other white supremacists have repeatedly and enthusiastically endorsed you unlike anyone else in decades? Definitely yes.
There's a reason Duke and the other white supremacists continue to support Trump so much, he refuses to convincingly say they're wrong.
Would Bernie Sanders disavow Lenin?
Not sure, there's a reason I didn't support Sanders.
Has Hillary Clinton disavowed Al Sharpton, who, unlike Duke, actually encouraged racial violence
It was a lot more BLM than anti-Semitism, the anger was the perception that the life of a black child was treated as secondary to the life of the white (and Jewish) driver who had killed him.
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The Brits moved out of Benghazi 6 months earlier explicitly because the security situation in the town was completely fucked unless they wanted to invest a shitload more material, soldiers, and money. The ambassador requested more soldiers and a more secure embassy multiple times over the preceding 12 months. Anybody involved paying fucking attention knew damn well that the situation was untenable but either Hillary or the White House found it politically expedient to leave them to hang out to dry. Then they subsequently lied about it in the media.
The thing that caught my eye here was the mention of Reddit - is that a good forum to discuss techie things? Maybe I'll have to go and check it out - I always just dismissed it as yet another social media thing.
Oh, Clinton and Trump, yeah right, what's the fuss? Clinton is without doubt the most evil, criminal mastermind in history (based on hearsay on the gossip channels), and Trump is the spoiled son of a family that made it's fortune from brothels and gambling, apparently (if one can believe this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...). To be honest, I don't think it is only the political classes in the US that are sick - from the noises, it sounds like the whole nation is in the grip of severe, mental illness. I hope I'm wrong - I think any sane person would dismiss the more obviously stupid noises and look up fact for themselves, like what are the track records of the two candidates, what have they achieved that is relevant to the job they are applying for and so on. I mean, those things are in fact quite important, since the President holds real power, unlike some other heads of state. Has anybody of you guys with the loud voices even thought about what qualifications are desirable in a president? Or does it just boil down to "whatever seems to fit the description of our candidate"?
The world is going through a very difficult time, and it is going to get worse before it gets better. Globalisation means that things like nations and capitalism are beginning to lose their relevance, and climate change means that we are going to see major conflics over mass migration, among other things. Terrorism is only a small symptom of what is likely to come, if we don't get some things sorted out rather urgently, so I would suggest that people take the issue of who governs the most powerful nation on the planet a little more seriously; this isn't a cheap "reality show".
I mean... he just fucking lied about Hillary making up the Birther argument right on camera. Lied. Straight lied his ass off. Not just the usual half-baked shit he throws off.
McClatchy: Clinton Advisor Sid Blumenthal Shopped Around Birther Rumors in 2008
Clinton’s 08 Campaign Manager Acknowledges Volunteer Sent Around Birther Email
Former DC Bureau Chief: Clinton Surrogate Pitched Me ‘Birther’ Story In 2008
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
FYI the media is lying to you. He never used racial profiling, he said profiling. CNN started it, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, the papers(wapo, etc) all ran with it.
Om, nomnomnom...
Just to clarify your post. CNN didn't make the claim that he was talking about racial profiling. They quoted him, with quotation marks, saying the words "racial profiling" even though he never said those words. This isn't something they misinterpreted, took out of context, or spun. This is a quote that CNN fabricated out of whole cloth. And the rest of the media jumped on and started quoting using CNN as a source, even though many of them had their own reporters at the event and could have, should have, fact checked with their own people and discovered was false.
Trump may be slime, but at the moment I don't think there is any sort of definitive proof he's broken the law
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
And oh look, while trying to find details of that i found a whole list of other illegal things he's done/proposed doing:
http://www.pajiba.com/politics...
If there were it almost certainly would have come out by now and be front page headlines for every news organization in the US
These things do float to the top of the headlines every so often, but generally they're quickly forgotten about. I'm not sure why that is exactly. Because Trump's supporters don't care when he does something illegal or immoral? Because he does so many of them that nobody can stay focused on just one long enough for it to become a real issue? I have no idea.
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False. The scrutiny comes from the candidate's father being a non-citizen and the murky accounts of the candidate's birth. Donald Trump has questioned Ted Cruz's eligibility too — right or wrong, the scrutiny is not racist. Fail.
Citations?
False. White judges are suspected of bias against non-White defendants all the time. Whether the suspicions are grounded or "dumb", they aren't racist. Fail.
Sorry, I do not see a stream of negative stereotypes — maybe, you should've posted actual quotes, as requested.
Unlike Hillary's endorsement by Sharpton, Duke's endorsement of Trump was completely unsolicited. If you begin rejecting all such "endorsements", you may not have time to talk about anything else — it is a strategic mistake for a politician to hand off the initiative to the opponents this way.
It was not — he was talking about diamonds being sent from South Africa to Crown Heights, for example. He was not "for Blacks", he was "anti Jews" — and stirring up rioters. You give me an example of David Duke doing anything like it...
But even if it were "BLM" — that alone is as racist as it gets. It really is mind-boggling, that the same person in the same post would attack one politician for "stereotyping" Blacks and defend another doing the same (with murderous results too)...
However you spin it, Al Sharpton is certainly no lesser racist, than David Duke. And yet, Clinton actively sought his endorsement — but you still accuse Trump of racism over unsolicited endorsement by Duke? How do you walk around with so much hypocrisy on you — does it not interfere with regular bodily functions?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
When Comey laid out all. of. the. elements. necessary for conviction of thousands of counts of espionage act violations
Um, no, that's not what happened. Is this a fever dream you had? Have you been drinking Trump wine?