{"id":29254,"date":"2016-09-20T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T21:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29254"},"modified":"2016-09-20T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T21:18:49","slug":"a-very-complex-smoking-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29254","title":{"rendered":"A Very Complex Smoking Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

The smoking gun has appeared in the Clinton email scandal. Unfortunately some aspects of it are so technical that those of us who think a megabyte is something you do at McDonald’s<\/a> may struggle with it (Just for the record, I put myself in that category).<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> is reporting the story today. The headline of the story is, “Hillary Clinton<\/a>‘s IT guy asked Reddit<\/a> for help altering emails, a Twitter<\/a> sleuth claims.”<\/p>\n

These are the important parts of the story:<\/p>\n

In the posts, stonetear asks for technical advice on retaining and deleting email messages that are more than 60 days old, as well as on removing the email address<\/a> of an unnamed \u201cVERY VIP<\/a>\u201d client from email archives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHello all,\u201d one of the posts begins. \u201cI may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP\u2019s (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<\/a>. Basically, they don\u2019t want the VIP\u2019s email address exposed to anyone. \u2026 Does anyone have experience with something like this, and\/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The screen shot of one of the requests for help altering the emails:<\/p>\n

\"emailsreddit\"<\/a>The timeline:<\/p>\n

The timing of two of Stonetear\u2019s Reddit posts coincides with events in the Clinton email saga. One post, dated July 24, 2014, came one day after\u00a0the House Select Committee on Benghazi<\/a> and the State Department<\/a> reached an agreement on producing\u00a0records. The second, which is dated Dec, 10, 2014, and describes a 60-day email retention policy, came the same month that a longtime Clinton aide requested that their email retention policy be shortened to 60 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What cover up?<\/p>\n

If you are going to do something illegal (like destroy subpoenaed evidence), you really should make sure that everyone involved has the knowledge required to do their part. This is really sloppy criminality. No self-respecting criminal would expect an IT guy to do this unless they were sure they would never be prosecuted (even if they were caught). That alone should provide food for thought.<\/p>\n

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