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Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com)
HockeyPuck writes: The House Oversight Committee has ordered Reddit to preserve deleted posts believed to be written by Paul Combetta, an IT technician the committee suspects may have deleted Hillary Clinton emails that were under subpoena. This follows up on an earlier report on reddit users' findings. Reddit users found that Combetta, through 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 Hill says in its report: "It's unclear what, exactly, the committee will be able to learn from the information Reddit preserves. According to the company's public policy for handling official requests, it maintains basic subscriber information, like IP logs, which identify the computer used to access a site. According to the policy, Reddit can maintain deleted records -- like a user's account -- for 90 days if it receives an official preservation order. Otherwise, the information will be subject to Reddit's 'normal retention or destruction schedules.'"
To play Devil's Advocate, though, wouldn't that mean that it would be 'easier' to impersonate him, in terms of a username?
I mean, think about it. We all know people who use the same username across a lot of social media platforms, or forums, or whatever. If someone was inclined to impersonate him, the fact that he uses the same handle makes it easier to do so.
Please note, I'm not saying that this is the case. But a handle in an otherwise anonymous setting does not and cannot, in and of itself, identify someone.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Judicial Watch made an FOIA request for Huma's emails from State Department. They found a good number of Hillary emails, to Huma, that the FBI were not able to find after a 2 year investigation. They showed requests for State Department help being forwarded to the donation center for Clinton Foundation and then being answered by State Department after appropriate donation. No, yoga was not mentioned in those emails, and as far as I know not a single email mentioning yoga has been found to date.
FBI never once considered looking for emails from people Hillary frequently sent emails to, to verify no work related emails were deleted. FBI from the beginning decided to not recommend indictment and that pretty much proved it.
Considering how much time the right wing spent on "Is Obama a secret Muslim?" or "Was Obama even born in this country?" or "Tides go in, tides go out, you can't explain that." (Okay, maybe not that last one), they've kind of lost a bit of credibility when it comes to other things.
Funny thing about that, the whole birther controversy was started by the Clinton campaign in 2008, when she was running against Obama for the presidential nomination. I guess that means her credibility is even worse than the right-wing's, right?
To play Devil's Advocate, though, wouldn't that mean that it would be 'easier' to impersonate him, in terms of a username?...If someone was inclined to impersonate him, the fact that he uses the same handle makes it easier to do so.
So, this person who was impersonating him had the forethought to create a reddit posting history for him before the Clinton server was even widely known?
Are you saying that Trump University wasn't a scam designed to take people's money? He claims he personally vetted all the teaching staff.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
So, if a cabinet level position takes hundreds of millions in bribes to direct US foreign policy, yes they should be prosecuted after leaving office even if not running for president.
I look forward to seeing George W. and Dick Cheney being convicted of war crimes in Iraq.
I know, how about we let the FBI director explain to you that she lied repeatedly about her efforts to avoid public scrutiny of her public records and her casual mis-handling of extremely sensitive classified material? She's on the record lying about it from the day the coverage of that mess started, and she's still doing it today - though she's learned to spend eight months at a time without a single press conference in order to avoid digging that hole any deeper.
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