Looks like the Hillary email scandal is not going away any time soon.
And H/T to Maynard for alerting me to James Taranto’s WSJ column, Who is Eric Hoteham?, where he mentions the parody twitter account set up on Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear exactly where [Mrs.] Clinton’s computer server was run, but a business record for the Internet connection it used was registered under the home address for her residence in Chappaqua, New York, as early as August 2010. The customer was listed as Eric Hoteham.
An aide to then-first lady Clinton was identified in a 2002 congressional report as Eric Hothem, whose name is spelled differently than in the Internet records. Hothem was not available to take a phone call when reached at his office Wednesday.
A parody Twitter account for Hoteham appeared Wednesday after the AP cited the records, sending satirical tweets supporting Clinton’s campaign. Hoteham’s name had not appeared with that spelling in public-record databases, campaign contribution records or online background searches….
Shout out to mom and pop. We made it fam. #FINALLYFAMOUS pic.twitter.com/xmHWuVyj2d
— Eric Hoteham (@erichoteham) March 5, 2015
Am I losing it? Are we really on 3rd day talking about a phony story? Did reporters not see @HillaryClinton's tweet? https://t.co/9f9tzo4AU5
— Eric Hoteham (@erichoteham) March 6, 2015
Wow. @davidbrockdc was masterful in that Bloomberg interview. Truly corrected the record on phony email scandal. @MarkHalperin got owned.
— Eric Hoteham (@erichoteham) March 4, 2015
Who the hell is Jack Shafer? RT @jackshafer: Who is Eric Hoteham?
— Eric Hoteham (@erichoteham) March 4, 2015
Psst… @PressSec and @marieharf, STEP IT UP. THESE BRIEFINGS AREN'T HELPING. #histlist
— Eric Hoteham (@erichoteham) March 4, 2015
ICYMI: Trusted national figure Gov. Ed Rendell destroys phony email scandal. Checkmate, "reporters." #ReadyForHillary http://t.co/NwJA8sY2OD
— Eric Hoteham (@erichoteham) March 4, 2015
Related:
Bloomberg Business: Clinton’s E-Mail Built for Privacy Though Not Security
Fox News: Aide tied to past Clinton scandals surfaces in controversy over emails
So he added an ‘e’ to his actual last name because all the online anagram name generators didn’t give a plausible English result. Changing one letter in a name is a simple and effective way to avoid online searches or the TSA no fly list, too. But there’s a lot of ‘fun’ names on this list he could have used:
http://www.namesgenerator.org/100-random-names/
posted 3/6 807am Texas[John Doe]Time
dennisl59: LOL! “Weijan Mukut” would have been so much more fun 🙂
Not getting any better here…The Question is:
Where is the actual physical location of the e-mail server? This report follows up on the question.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/09/location-clinton-email-server/#.VP4MSRbSwk0.email
posted 3/9 419pm Texas[You’ve Got Mail~!] Time
‘The server was registered under the name Eric Hoteman — someone who doesn’t exist. But it’s almost surely Eric Hothem, a Washington financial adviser and former aide to Clinton who, according to the Associated Press, has been a technology adviser to the family…’ From a column by Jonah Goldberg(3/12)
So, why hasn’t this person been actually tracked down and confronted and asked about this? There’s been nothing since this first report. So I’ll answer my own question: No One Cares.
posted 3/12 650am Texas[You’ve Maybe Got Mail?] Time