Oversight orders Reddit to preserve deleted posts in Clinton investigation

The Hill ^

[wille777]

The House Oversight Committee has ordered Reddit to preserve deleted posts believed to be written by an IT technician the committee suspects may have deleted Hillary Clinton emails that were under subpoena.

Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) confirmed that the committee has issued a preservation order and that Reddit is “cooperating.”

The order "has the weight of law, you can't destroy things and hope things magically get erased,” he told The Hill Wednesday.

[butlerweave]

Didn’t Obama praise Reddit awhile back ,so I’m guessing they’ve already been Bleached

[wille777]

also:

http://completecolorado.com/pagetwo/2016/09/09/paul-combetta-may-have-stayed-tethered-to-clintons-through-legal-reimbursements/

It looks like Combetta had travel and legal expenses paid for by the Clintons

[wille777]

they’ve been previously screen-capped by lots of people.

the Redditt posts are known.

[vladimir998]

I wonder if the IT geek admitted to all this in his immunity agreement. If not, this might be a violation of that agreement.

[LouieFisk]

“I wonder if the IT geek admitted to all this in his immunity agreement. If not, this might be a violation of that agreement.”
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Or not covered by the agreement.

[FreedomStar3028]

This guy is definitely not an “IT geek”, moron doesn’t even know how to nuke a hard disk, he doesn’t know how to google it either, he has to post to reddit. Guy doesn’t know jack shit about IT.

[Voluntaryist]

And to top it off his website/domain was called Putergod.com lmao

[IncPen]

Guy doesn’t know jack shit about IT.

In Clinton land, that's the difference between a shrug of the shoulders and 20 years in prison. Hillary shrugs and the IT guy (who, she thought, knew what he was doing!) takes the fall.

Wouldn't want to be this guy...

[WildHighlander57]

Wille777,

Thanks for the post!

Ping to reddit cooperating with preserving the posts deleted by illary’s IT guy:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3472099/posts?page=1#1.

(There’s —always— backups!!!)

[Walkingfeather]

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/
This is where its happening

[Walkingfeather]

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/
This is where its happening

[Voluntaryist]

Yes this is true!

PS to everyone else - To put things in perspective politically speaking (not counting non political subs), the entire site is literally The Donald vs every other sub on Reddit in terms of Trump vs Hillary.

[Ray76]

They’re too late. Posts were being deleted within hours of the story breaking.

[Bon mots]

[M. Thatcher]

Wrong. Guy only “deleted” stuff from the front end, his account, after they’d been discovered and screen capped. Reddit owns the actual data, which still exists on the back end.

[Ray76]

Source?

[M. Thatcher]

Multiple. I've been following the story as it unfolded - the night the reddit user tweeted the find, and reddit users screen capped all night, and then watching in real time as this idiot Combetta scrubbing his posts, thinking he was solving the problem.

I don't have time to make links but you can copy and paste to start getting up to speed.

https://twitter.com/GOPPollAnalyst/status/777691379971612672

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/paul-combetta-computer-specialist-who-deleted-hillary-clinton-emails-may-have-asked-reddit-for-tips

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/09/20/breaking-rep-lamar-smith-demands-interview-with-stonetear-aka-paul-combetta-pdf-below/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/09/20/day-2-hillarys-i-t-guy-paul-combetta-aka-stonetear-the-reddit-and-the-timeline/

[Ray76]

screenshots are one thing, that doesn’t mean reddit has it.

if reddit has a credible backup policy they should have the data

[M. Thatcher]

Hence Chairman Chaffetz’s preservation order. As per the Hill article above.