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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.'"
Both sides are a shit show in their own special ways. At this point I just want a comfy chair and some popcorn.
At this point it's really important that Combetta is put on suicide watch and given a bodyguard. A lot of people affiliated with the Clintons end up in, how do you say... "unusual circumstances", like getting murdered by a 'robber' that actually didn't take anything, or 'committing suicide' by shooting themselves in the back twice.
It's even worse than not using TOR. Combetta used the same handle "stonetear" that he used in multiple other places on the internet. (Etsy, Gmail, etc.)
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.
It's unclear what, exactly, the committee will be able to learn from the information Reddit preserves
or why it would be applicable to a closed criminal investigation that resulted in no indictment and no charges. at this point its just a political fishing expedition to slander the character of a presidential candidate thats already generally reviled by Americans yet unaccountably still able to secure her parties candidate nomination.
maybe if republicans had spent the time it took to conduct four hearings into benghazi more prudently by...say...building a functional candidate and forming meaningful foreign and domestic policy that address genuine issues in the upcoming decade, we wouldnt be stuck voting for a criminal in a twelve thousand dollar potato sack that lectures ad nauseum on the middle class.
Good people go to bed earlier.
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.
Apparently from his reddit account he was in to furry shit. I really want the House Oversight Committee to ask him "sir, could you explain to the Committee what you meant by 'yiffing' in some of your comments?"
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
What interest would anyone have in impersonating him two years ago when the posts were made? And for the lifetime of his account prior to the email questions?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
There are? I only found 3 posts.
The IIS patches aren't on liveupdate, you have to go get them
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Re: "Big Brother" and the Web
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
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And my personal favorite:
Document Retention - How Long is Too Long?
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
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I guess once you get to certain levels of government the "CYA" is deleting all of your e-mails.
Johnson is the only other candidate on the ballot in Georgia - aside from Trump and Clinton. He's polling in the double digits here - the first time ever for a Libertarian or any third party.
I'm voting for him for POTUS. And then Democrat for everything else I can. The Republicans have pissed me off so much with their brinkmanship over the last 8 years and then to insult us by blaming everything on the Democrats. The Republicans have failed in showing me that they are capable of governing this country. And all the incumbents are Republicans so it's also an anti-incumbent vote for me.
I get the nonsense that I'll be throwing my vote away but its insane to vote for someone you don't want.
We'll probably go all Republican because of the Bible Thumpers - all you gotta say down here is that you're Conservative and against abortion and gay marriage and for unrestricted gun rights and you're in - as long as you have a 'R' next to your name.
The Christians seem to have forgotten:
And I don't recall there being any sort of exceptions.
I didn't say it was likely. I didn't even say it happened. All I said, is that you can't use a handle to uniquely identify someone.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
The relevance is that the FBI granted immunity to the only two people in this saga who knew what really happened to the government-owned records, and those people took the fifth when testifying. So, it looks like an official cover-up.
FBI Director Comey said that "no reasonable prosecutor" would have prosecuted the case, yet he grants immunity from prosecution. Why? If no one is going to prosecute, then immunity makes no sense. The purpose of granting immunity to a small fish is so you can prosecute a bigger fish.
Further, why have these IT folks gone even beyond their protection against immunity to refuse to testify? What could they possibly say that would be prosecutable? Nothing.
Everyone is staying quiet. As long as no one says anything, everyone is protected.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
How is it unclear? IP logs are a smoking gun.
You've been downvoted because slashdot users are too smart to believe that, and indeed you're probably being sarcastic, but IP logs are indeed a smoking gun. By themselves they leave reasonable doubt, but combined with other evidence they are convincing.
To believe he didn't do it, you'd have to believe that there's reasonable doubt someone else, who used a distinctive name that is the same as one he's used, used his IP address to request information that is relevant to his profession and job, on the day after a congressional order dealing with the subject of the requested information.
Any part of that leaves wiggle room, but together...smoking gun.
All I said, is that you can't use a handle to uniquely identify someone.
Are you talking metaphysically or legally? Legally of course you can. But if you're trying to be some "well, how can we really know anything?" pedant, then pffft.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
I did not see any reddit posts asking how to use a VPN.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
The guy worked for an MSP ( Platte River Networks ), he wasn't even a private contractor. What this does show is that Hillary Clinton cares even less about national security then anyone previously thought. At least a direct hire would have shown some foresight toward limiting the number of jokers with access to these documents. But no, what does this retard do? She outsources it to a bunch of garage sale technicians working at a glorified call center.
You're not wrong, but the pre-existence of the accounts, the dates involved, and the types of questions asked on each site would kinda blow reasonable doubt out of the water when they can be linked together so closely. The posting here on slashdot sure wouldn't help that argument, any.
Anyhow, the email address used to verify accounts on both sites would probably be a pretty good nail in the coffin if he verified on reddit. (You can, but don't have to)
I had a sucky sig.
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?
The posts show that the guy knew he was deleting stuff in the face of a direct order by the authorities not to do that. That means he's going to jail.
Except that only a few documents were found to be marked classified.
Since it was "only a few" does that make it okay? It is okay if I only kill a few people or only steal a few cars?
Over 1000 documents had classified information at the time they were sent.
I believe 12 were so highly classified they couldn't even release redacted copies of the emails.
The agent investigating, with Top Secret clearance, had to get additional clearance even to view some of the emails.
Clinton used the same classification markings (that she said she didn't know what they were) in memos from State Department that she wrote and WikiLeaks has with her SIGNATURE on them.
There is an email from her asking to have markings removed and sent unsecured.
Yea, lets not let facts get in the way.
Not true... The actual facts are that over 1000 documents were RETROACTIVELY marked as classified by the State Department. They were not marked classified at the time. The agent investigating this issue had to get top secret clearance because of the retroactive classification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In his defense, he probably didn't think he was doing anything wrong by removing those files
Document retention regulations have been around for quite a while now. Any network engineer that isn't aware that there are rules in place about this, especially since he knew the identity of the VIP, isn't a very good systems manager. Back when I wore that hat, there were occasions when I made sure a request like this came from a supervisor and in writing.
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
There were still 110 emails in 52 separate conversations that had classified information at the time sent or received, according to the director of the FBI during a televised statement, quoted above. Source, quoted paragraph 12.
Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. At the time of sending or receipt. Stop being an apologist.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
I don't know how many times this needs repeating to Hillary apologists but, just because SHE didn't mark it classified, doesn't mean it didn't CONTAIN classified information. The information was always classified. And Secretary of State knows the nature of classified information so it shouldn't be a surprise.
Actually I do know how many times it needs repeating. Every time. Because they have no room for new information on this topic.
From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department in 2014, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent; 36 of those chains contained secret information at the time; and eight contained confidential information at the time. That's the lowest level of classification.
So. Yes there was stuff that was done retroactively, but the director of the FBI made it really clear that hundreds of emails were Classified, Top Secret or Confidential at the time they were sent or received.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Yes, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy goes that deep! They play 4D chess when everyone else is doing tic tac toe! Tighten your tinfoil hat, man, they can READ that shit...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
There were exactly 3 emails that had sections marked with (c) indicating classified, though it was meaningless without the related headers.
Additionally, zero of those 3 emails actually contained classified information.