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Exclusive: Hillary’s IT Contractor Did Not Have Proper Security Clearance
The Daily Caller ^ | 8/14/2015 | Richard Pollock

Posted on 08/14/2015 12:47:52 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrusted her email server to an IT firm that was not cleared to handle classified materials, according to the chief spokesman for the Defense Security Service.

The DSS is an arm of the Defense Department and is the only federal agency authorized to approve private sector company access to sensitive or confidential material.

The agency reviews and approves private contractors to assure they have secure facilities and approves security clearances for employees to clear them for access to sensitive or classified materials.

Since 2013, Clinton used Platte River Networks, a small Denver-based company, to upgrade and maintain her private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.

About 13,000 companies have received FCL or facility-wide clearance. But Platte River is not one of them.

“Platte River is not cleared” to have access to classified material, stated Cindy McGovern, chief public affairs officer for DSS in a telephone interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, told the DCNF that the Platte River involvement “raises serious questions” about the security surrounding Secretary Clinton’s server over the last two years.

“The revelation that Secretary Clinton used a private company, Platte River Networks, to maintain her personal server raises questions about what steps the company took to preserve and secure sensitive information in Secretary Clinton’s email,” Johnson said.

The DSS provides clearances to 30 federal departments and agencies, including the State Department.

Alex McGeorge, the head of threat intelligence at the IT cybersecurity firm Immunity told The DCNF that all facilities approved for access to classified materials need a “SCIF” — or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility — also known as a hardened room.

“It’s a room that is resistant to eavesdropping and unauthorized entry limited to personnel with security clearances. That would be a room that where data coming in and out of the room is tightly controlled,” he said.

According to the Associated Press, the intelligence community inspector general reported to Congress Monday that Hillary’s emails contained at least two messages with information considered Top Secret.

For servers that contain Top Secret information, “you would have to have very compartmentalized clearance to see. Those standards are much higher,” McGeorge said.

The DSS current mission is carried out under the National Industrial Security Program (NISP), the rules of which were established by President Clinton in 1993 with Executive Order 12829.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonemail; platterivernetworks; securityclearance
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To: grey_whiskers

Ick - what a horrible thought.

I’m sure her dentures have fangs....


121 posted on 08/14/2015 7:00:10 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Crystal Palace East

She is politically dead. Trump will have her thrown in jail. NO DOUBT!!


122 posted on 08/14/2015 7:16:18 PM PDT by WENDLE ( Hillary is a criminal.She jeopardized our security.)
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To: The Final Harvest

Platte River now says the data was copied onto something else.

That was, when Congress issued subpoena for “server,” Clinton could argue, “Here it is (the physical box, hard drives, CPU, etc.) Oh, it has no data.... sorry ‘bout that.”


123 posted on 08/14/2015 8:00:17 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East (Are Crybaby Conservatives, calling everyone else RINOs, really Dems trying to get you to not vote?)
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To: bkopto

re: MSM

I represent a number of Conservative broadcasters.

Changes are coming to MSM.

MSM newsies will soon start having “Meetings with The Suits.”

Remember, journalists do not control networks, The Suits do. The profit-oriented business people, the accountants, the sales division, heavy investors, the “Board.”

FNC ratings v. MSM ratings, combined with Trump’s “ratings” are going to cause the news divisions to be called before the people who really matter, “The Suits.”

The Suits are smart guys, often totally apolitical. They would donate money to Franco of Spain for a 3% increase in stock prices. They also read spreadsheets and tea leaves very well.

Meeting will begin with something like “Hey, Schmucks. How come you far left news types are costing us so much money, and driving away viewers. You need an effing telegram? Wake up. The viewers like Trump. You work for us, not the other way around..... “

It may come in a month. It may come in a year. It’s coming to at least one network who will want to distance itself from the other two.


124 posted on 08/14/2015 8:15:17 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East (Are Crybaby Conservatives, calling everyone else RINOs, really Dems trying to get you to not vote?)
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To: Crystal Palace East
and the mutt in the white hut has a clearance it could never pass a security background check to get
125 posted on 08/14/2015 8:31:40 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

Can you imagine Clinton with all his trysts and drug use or Kerry, having served as the COSVN spokesman at the Paris Peace Talks ever getting a clearance?

There is no way they could ever get a Secret, and probably not even a Confidential!


126 posted on 08/14/2015 8:52:39 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East (Are Crybaby Conservatives, calling everyone else RINOs, really Dems trying to get you to not vote?)
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To: Crystal Palace East
100%
127 posted on 08/14/2015 9:05:14 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

The only thing I ever saw in my files related to this
was a statement that said: “No Bar To Security Clearance”.
I never rose to a level that exposed me to any “secrets”,
but I guess that statement meant that I “could” have ...


128 posted on 08/14/2015 9:11:41 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: Crystal Palace East
People would walk into the bars on K Street and, when seen, slap their heads into their foreheads cartoonishly and looking askance, yell “She never knew!!!”

The thing is she knew all along, but had to play the "good wife" who had been hurt beyond all recognition.

I say that because she had his secretary keep an eye on his activities. There was a keyhole in the door to the room where all the Monica activity took place. The secretary (I can't remember her name - the one who eventually got Socks the cat) saw all and reported all.

How did Old Slick have the time to canoodle with the intern? He had earlier complained that he didn't have enough time to himself. He spent his entire day getting his picture made with all those American people who did things that warranted a trip to the White House. He didn't have enough time for himself.

Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan did all that PLUS he made executive decisions and never took his jacket off while in the Oval Office.

While Hillary was making all the executive decisions, she got tired of hearing him complain about all the photo ops. So she gave him a few hours in the afternoon so he could just veg. And then in walks Monica wearing a thong and carrying a pizza.

Hillary was not upset that she was embarrassed because a sociopath is incapable of being embarrassed. Instead, she was upset that he got caught with his zipper down holding a stogie, thus injuring her chances for her presidential bid.

Hillary knew exactly what was happening.

129 posted on 08/14/2015 9:45:09 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: Slyfox

And then, of course, there was Marsha Scott. She was what the Japanese call an “office wife.” Often the relationship is non-sexual, but of course, in Clinton’s case, it had to be for him to accept it.

She was the one Slick could “cry to.” If he ever loved any woman for more than a semester, it was probably her.

The night Vince Foster died (let’s not go there again...) in his own words, Clinton spent the night “crying in her arms.”

Everyone tries to make such a bid deal about the Clinton’s sexual escapades. Here in DC it’s long understood.

Bill and Hillary were, (and to a lesser extent, still are) “business partners.” They feed off each other. Each is where they are, in part, only because of the other.

Monica was one of many, many dozens if not not hundreds of women bedded by Bill.

Likewise, Hillary had her one “see, the plumbing works” baby, then went back to her girlfriends. Huma is by no means the first, but is probably the longest lasting. It’s just generally understood here that they truly love each other. (in a way gays do) ... and that’s better than Bill’s daily but different nooners.


130 posted on 08/14/2015 10:39:45 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East (Are Crybaby Conservatives, calling everyone else RINOs, really Dems trying to get you to not vote?)
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To: Crystal Palace East
In 1979, I was in Little Rock I was sitting at a diner with my family, and I overheard a couple of guys talking about some guy named Clinton. At first I didn't know who they were talking about and even after the conversation was over I still didn't know who they were referring to.

The conversation went like this: Clinton wants to run for president. You kidding me? With his woman problem? Yeah, he sleeps with anything wearing a skirt. I don't see how he could ever think of running for president.

The Clintons, and the Obamas for that matter, are just huge fakes with fake marriages, fake birth stories, you name it. It doesn't bother them to lie their asses off so that power finds them and they can lord it all over us.

Dear Jesus, will you please rid us of these loathsome pests?

131 posted on 08/14/2015 11:07:48 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: eyedigress

Agree on the big money aspect.

Have you noticed that Trump is not really saying anything bad about the Hildebeast? Trump is riding in on the Trojan Horse. The 2 have a lot in common and he is also someone who has given money to the Clintons.

Regardless, Hillary Rotten Clinton has always known EXACTLY what she is doing. So no one can ever claim that she didn’t know. TO set up a personal server as Secretary of State, withofficial government data, and handled by an uncleared IT company, is (several) federal crimes. I guess no one wants to go after her because they are afraid of being Vince Fosterized.

Hillary for PRISON 2016 !


132 posted on 08/15/2015 6:53:20 AM PDT by space junk (HRC, Hillary, Hildebeast, Trump, Trojan Horse, email server, server)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

We may see them circle the wagons and hunt down people individually. Why on earth can’t an investigator just subpoenae OTHER people’s mails, who would reasonably

have exchanged with HRC.

This is a lot like the IRS crap with the server. Lets’ all just drag it out for a few years, and make darn sure that they have all the time in the world to illegally cover their illegal tracks, to make plans to further obfuscate the truth, and to demonize or attack anyone ‘conservative’ enough to want things like truth and justice. Why that has to be considered a right-wing thing is such a sign of how screwed up this country is. My prediction is that, just as with so many other Clinton scandals, people will get ‘talked’ to, and for one reason or other, suddenly become very very quiet on the criminality. Kinda like a ton of other scandals, actually both Obama related and Clinton related. This is the result of decades of the Clintonization of american politics.


133 posted on 08/15/2015 6:53:20 AM PDT by space junk
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To: Crystal Palace East

"Like, it's all cool man. Don't worry about it."

134 posted on 08/15/2015 7:16:15 AM PDT by jetson
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To: space junk

Trump called her a criminal in the Hannity interview.


135 posted on 08/15/2015 7:21:30 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Repeal The 17th
damn shame when a POS that can't pass a background check is GIVEN a clearance simply because a bunch of idiots voted for it
136 posted on 08/15/2015 8:10:29 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Crystal Palace East

“copied onto something else”

Why does that statement not surprise me even a little bit ..??

In fact, the moment I heard the system was empty .. it was the first thing I thought of. I’m sure that was the only solution, because I still believe she was using the server to SELL AMERICA - OR PIECES OF IT - TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER; just my personal opinion. People in foreign countries were paying her to give them all kinds of very sensitive and “secret”, “classified”, and intelligence info about the USA.

What a great candidate ..?? She’s selling out the country she wants to be president of .. I think that’s something like the current president who wants to destroy the very country he’s president of .. GEEEEEEE DEMOCRATS .. THAT’S NOT A VERY GOOD SIGN FOR YOUR PARTY .. ELECTING PEOPLE WHO ONLY WANT TO BENEFIT PERSONALLY .. AND DO NOTHING BUT DESTROY THE COUNTRY THEY’VE SWORN TO PROTECT AND DEFEND.

Good grief .. what has happened to this country .. I guess Sodom and Gomorrah doesn’t want to be reminded of their filth.


137 posted on 08/15/2015 9:46:32 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: VRWCarea51

Sounds about right - there has got to be a reason for their involvement - they were probably referred by Sidney B.


138 posted on 08/15/2015 3:41:38 PM PDT by relentlessly
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