
FBI Director James Comey claimed that he would not recommend an indictment in the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private servers to conduct official government business because there was a lack of intent.
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Most rational people thought Comey’s excuse was just that, an excuse, possibly motivated by politics or intense pressure. But now, posts on a Reddit forum that are allegedly written by the IT professional that scrubbed Clinton’s server are a big, fat plate full of “intent.”
Zero Hedge reported that Paul Combetta of Platte River Networks posted a question on Reddit where he asked users how he could “strip out a VIP’s (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email[s].”
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SMOKING GUN: "BleachBit" Paul Combetta ASKED TO STRIP OR REPLACE VIP's EMAIL ADDRESS! https://t.co/nz13MqzWth #MAGA pic.twitter.com/qQII96JI76
— Katica (@GOPPollAnalyst) September 19, 2016
Combetta started the intent-filled thread on July 24, 2014 — five months before the former Secretary of State turned over emails to the State Department.
Combetta, under the name “stonetear,” was told by a user named “borismkv” that what he was suggesting would have serious legal implications.
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The illegality of the situation, of which it’s likely that Combetta and Clinton’s camp were well aware, didn’t deter “stonetear” when he pressed the community further about how to strip the emails.
You may be wondering, how do we know that “stonetear” is Combetta? “Katica” found this webpage that referenced Paul Combetta as “[email protected]”
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The administrator of the page wrote that he was “extremely grateful to Paul Combetta” who can be reached at ‘[email protected]'”
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If Paul Combetta is not “stonetear,” it would be one massive coincidence.
If it ends up being the same Paul Combetta that was granted immunity by the Department of Justice and recently plead the fifth in front of Congress, then this is a huge smoking gun.
This would be the same Paul Combetta that told the FBI that he “was aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton’s e-mail data on the PRN server,” according to Zero Hedge.
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Combetta initially denied that he was aware of the subpoena from the House Select Committee on Benghazi when he wiped the server, before later admitting that he was.
As Zero Hedge reported, there were a lot of mistakes made by the IT specialist and the Clinton camp in their haste to remove the emails that were supposed to be just about wedding planning and yoga schedules.
If this is Paul Combetta, one has to wonder why the FBI didn’t find this and if they did, how in the world does this not prove intent?