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> From the way it reads it looks like he is asking how to bulk remove an email address from the archived messages so when they are turned over they don't contain the redacted email address.

You don't redact email addresses when you are subpoenaed by the f'ing FBI.

edit: My bad, it was the House Select Committee on Benghazi (July 2014). The FBI didn't take custody of the server until August 2015.

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They were subpoenaed by Congress, but not until March 4, 2015. The initial request for emails was made by the State Department.

Edit: small mistake. The initial request did come from Congress and went through the State Department. It was not a subpoena though, that came later.

Edit 2: Since it was clear to some, the reddit post was dated July 24th, 2014. That's 7 months, prior to the first subpoena.

I think it reads worse than that

“I’ve done quite a bit already in the last few months related to this. Her team had me do a bunch of exports and email filters and cleanup to provide a PST [personal storage file] of all of HRC’s emails to/from any .gov addresses,” Combetta wrote. [0]

Exporting email and filtering it, but only for .gov addresses(?).. I would imagine that whoever subpoenaed those mails was requesting not just .gov communication, and I can't help but think that these sort of actions are suggestive of some deeper cleanup activity.

[0] http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/19/computer-tech-who-asked-ho...

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