Friday, August 26, 2016

"Tech firm brags about blocking FBI from recovering Clinton emails"

"A technology company that provided the program Hillary Clinton's team used to scrub her private server of emails bragged on its website Thursday that it had prevented the FBI from accessing deleted records."
BleachBit, the application that deleted some of Clinton's emails ahead of an FBI investigation, said it had not yet been served a subpoena over its involvement in the destruction of potentially classified records.

A headline on the company's website read: "BleachBit stifles investigation of Hillary Clinton."

Rep. Trey Gowdy brought the involvement of the program to light Thursday when he told Fox News that Clinton's emails were so fully deleted that "even God can't read them."

"Perhaps Clinton's team used an open source application [like BleachBit] because, unlike proprietary applications, it can be audited, like for backdoors," BleachBit noted in a post on its site.

"As of the time of writing BleachBit has not been served a warrant or subpoena in relation to the investigation," the company wrote. "BleachBit is free of charge to use in any environment whether it is personal, commercial, educational or governmental, and the cleaning process is not reversible."

13 comments:

chickelit said...

The worse she is, the better she does.

Bring out the maximum amount of filth and dirt on Hillary and she will rise even higher in her idolater's eyes. There appears to be nothing on earth to break that relationship.

ricpic said...

She's one step ahead of the coppers!

edutcher said...

That could end up being a very costly piece of vanity.

chickelit said...

The worse she is, the better she does.

Bring out the maximum amount of filth and dirt on Hillary and she will rise even higher in her idolater's eyes.


If that were true, they wouldn't need to skew the polls. I think the weight of all this costs her, just like the impeachment and Elian Gonzalez and the turgid weight of all the lies cost Willie. In the end, people were glad to be rid of him and the same is becoming true of her.

F'rinstance, she needs the young millennials out in force to vote for her and nobody on either side thinks they're there.

Methadras said...

Isn't anyone here criminally liable for obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence? I know HRC is immune now, but anyone else in her cadre who deleted emails with full knowledge of their illegality?

edutcher said...

Plenty of people can go under the bus.

rhhardin said...

It's perfectly legal to delete stuff as completely as you want, provided it's not evidence in a crime.

The latter is up to Hillary, not the software company.

When I returned a faulty new Dell, I overwrote all the files I installed with zeros and then deleted them. The overwriting with zeros corresponds to the software company's product, except they probably do it a few times with random data rather than zeros, to defeat a dedicated decoder using more than just the hard drive it's in.

That wasn't a crime, just making sure my bank account number is unreadable with ordinary software.

chickelit said...

@edutcher: I want to share your belief that Rodham will not be rewarded in the end for all this. And, I refuse to dump on Trump just because one can.

I still think that all signs are go for team Hillary. They represent just too much inertial status quo. Internationally for example, there is scant evidence that any but a few think she is unworthy.

rhhardin said...

See?

$ cat zerofiles.c
#include "stdio.h"
#include "sys/types.h"
#include "sys/stat.h"
main(ac,av)
char *av[];
{
off_t u;
int i,j,k;
struct stat buf;
FILE *fp;
for(k=1; k<ac; k++) {
if(stat(av[k],&buf))continue;
fp=fopen(av[k],"r+w");
rewind(fp);
for(u=0; u<buf.st_size; u++)fputc(0,fp);
fclose(fp);
fprintf(stderr,"zerod %s\n",av[k]);
}
}
$

edutcher said...

chick, I see something different.

If she wins, it will only be through vote fraud and another election stolen is not going to go down well.

Right now, it looks like the race is even and Big Mo, to use Bush 41's phrase, seems to be with Trump. This stuff isn't being suppressed and I think it's having an effect.

YMMV

Leland said...

Agree rhhardin, the question is, was some of the things deleted items that were subpoenaed by either Congress or the Judicial Watch case. With the stuff coming up for release on 13 Sept, we might find out.

Then again, we may get proof that Hillary sent Russia the name of Snowden to convince him to defect, and that she deleted the email; and the FBI would just claim she was too stupid to know what she was doing and the DoJ would go, "we don't prosecute people for doing stupid things"; while some military veteran is currently facing a sentencing phase after conviction for doing something stupid. The press would lead; "Trump said something stupid!"

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Right now, it looks like the race is even and Big Mo, to use Bush 41's phrase, seems to be with Trump. This stuff isn't being suppressed and I think it's having an effect.

That is more delusional thinking on your part. Explain to me how Pennsylvania, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Hampshire are "even." The trends are starting to go a bit in Trump's favor, but I would hardly describe it as "Big Mo."

Now show me the path you predict for Trump victory without at least some of those states. You can go on RCP or other sites that allow you to do an electoral state by state map. Show me Trump's path to victory, state by state. I am curious what you foresee as his way to victory (as things stand today).

What Trump needs is a game changer between now and November 8. The biggest opportunity are the debates, probably the first one. But try not to keep deluding yourself that this race is tied right now, it is definitely not. Hillary is winning.


Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

This is not dumping on Trump. This is looking at the current conditions rationally and objectively.

Trump is behind. But like Trump's pal Tom Brady being behind, you rally your offense and score some points. He has time to still do that.

Just please, no more turnovers.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

I said Pennsylvania twice, my bad.