Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: The FBI concluded that a computer technician working on Clinton's email was not engaged in an illicit cover-up when he asked on the Reddit website for a tool that could delete a "VIP" email address throughout a large file, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday. Republican lawmakers have suggested that the July 2014 Reddit post from a user believed to be Platte River Networks specialist Paul Combetta showed an effort to hide Clinton's emails from investigators. However, at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Comey said FBI agents concluded that all the computer aide was trying to do was replace Clinton's email address so it wouldn't be revealed to the public. "Our team concluded that what he was trying to do was when they produced emails not have the actual address but have some name or placeholder instead of the actual dot-com address in the 'From:' line," Comey said. Comey said he wasn't sure whether the FBI knew about the Reddit posting when prosecutors granted Combetta immunity to get statements from him about what transpired. However, he added that such a deletion wouldn't automatically be considered an effort to destroy evidence. "Not necessarily ... It would depend what his intention was and why he wanted to do it," the FBI director said.

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It won't matter what Comey says

[UnknowingFool]

If I've learned anything about the birther controversy, some people are fact resistant especially in this election when Clinton's opponent has heavily promoted multiple conspiracies.

People deserve their government.

[Anonymous Coward]

This issue has been put to bed. The only people keeping it alive are the Republicans and Trump because that's the only way he can score points against Clinton in the polls.

But if we're going to use these emails as part of a measuring stick as to who is more trustworthy, when we tally up all lie and half truths of our major candidates - Trump and Clinton - Trump loses.

And what's sickening is that our parties have allowed such people to be the ones running for POTUS. Clinton got where is she with back room deals and Trump got where he is because of the blind irrational anger of the Republican base. And the ironic thing is that everything the Republicans hate about our government was caused by them - and only them. The last eight years of nonsense was exclusively caused by the Republicans. They have proven to be a party that is incapable of governing this nation. They are nothing but obstructionists who want everything to be their way or noway.

Fortunately, the party is mostly made up of old white people and they are rapidly becoming a minority - they're dying off.

If the US electorate would sit down and treat our Presidential election as choosing the better person we are given to lead our country instead of treating it like a professional sports game (our team vs their team), we might actually get a government that represents us.

But regardless of which "side" you're on, we the people are going to get the government that we deserve.

Re:Clinton is above the law

[AmiMoJo]

Her opponents will never, ever let this go because it's pretty much the only non-conspiracy-theory legitimate complaint they have. Benghazi was investigated multiple times, there isn't much there. Everything else, the list of people she is supposed to have killed, the speculation about her health, the claim she was the original birther, all the stuff about Bill and his affairs, the fear of having a woman/feminist in the White House, it's all just bullshit that doesn't fly with most voters.

Don't get me wrong, a lot of people find her basically unlikable or disagree with her policies, but they need something to make her look as bad as Trump. This an a bunch of memes and shitposts is all they have.