Posted on 08/16/2015 11:36:00 AM PDT by markomalley
Platte River Networks, the Denver-based cybersecurity firm Hillary Clinton hired in 2013 to maintain her old email server, says it is “highly likely” a full backup of the device was made and that the thousands of emails Clinton deleted may still exist, ABC News is reporting.
On Wednesday, Platte River gave the FBI the server Clinton used as secretary of state. The Democratic presidential candidate had stated numerous times prior to that that she would not relinquish control of the server to a third party.
But the FBI became interested in the hardware after the revelation that the Intelligent Community inspector general had determined that two emails that traversed the server contained “top secret” information. While Clinton is not believed to have sent the emails in question, the finding undermines her claims at the onset of the email scandal in March that no classified information ever landed on her server.
Platte River has said that it is cooperating with the FBI and that it is not the target of any investigation.
The company did not respond to requests for additional comment Sunday.
The details about how Clinton’s server was handled and how the data from it was transferred have remained unclear.
In a March 27 letter to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, wrote that he “confirmed with the Secretary’s IT support that no e-mails from hdr22@clintonemail.com…reside on the server or any back-up systems associated with the server.”
Earlier this week, Barbara Wells, an attorney for Platte River, told reporters, including The Daily Caller, that the server was rendered blank after data was transferred from it in June 2013. Wells told Bloomberg News that the information from Clinton’s old server was migrated to a new server that still exists.
She did not elaborate further.
Clinton hired Platte River to manage her email set-up after she left the State Department in Feb. 2013. Prior to that, the server resided in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y. home. It was managed by an IT worker hired by the State Department from Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
It is still not clear why exactly Clinton hired Platte River. Many have speculated that it was a response to the March 2013 hack of the email account of Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton friend.
Clinton’s email address — hdr22@clintonemail.com — was revealed in that hack, though it was unknown at the time that that was the account she also used to conduct State Department business. Clinton has asserted that her server was secure and was never hacked.
Platte River’s involvement in handling Clinton’s server poses other problems, as The Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively learned Friday.
A spokesman for the Defense Security Service, an arm of the Defense Department, told TheDCNF that Platte River “is not cleared” to have access to classified material. Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said that the finding “raises serious questions” about how secure Clinton’s server was. (RELATED: Exclusive: Hillary’s IT Contractor Did Not Have Proper Security Clearance)
Johnson sent a letter of inquiry to Platte River earlier this week to determine what security measures it took to secure the server.
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It’s not as easy to get rid of emails as it was to get rid of Vince Foster.
Trump in the White House.
Hillary in the BIG House.
Ah, bro, sportin WOOD...!!!
“Highly Likely’ That There’s A Full Backup Of Hillary’s Email Server”
I’m sure it’s backed up at FSB Headquarters, and the Chinese Ministry of State Security, as well.
‘Report: ‘Highly Likely’ That There’s A Full Backup Of Hillary’s Email Server”
There most certainly is one in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as in lots of intelligence communities in countries that are allies including, Israel, Germany, UK and India. To name just a few.
No security clearance.
Based in Colorado
So people in our government sent and received emails, classified and otherwise, to hdr22@clintonemail.com and we’re only finding out about this now???
FYI
Hillary! is, of course, guilty of hundreds of felonies. The law does not matter. What matters is, Does Valerie Jarrett want to destroy Hillary! or not?
If I’m connected to platte river I’m pretty scared. If the MSM can’t protect HRC from Republican eunuch investigators the Kenyan will surely pardon her. If you’re not a democratic politician obstruction and perjury have very serious consequences.
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I believe this is new news. The State Department paid an IT person to manage clintonmail.com.
But Hillary owns the data? I don't think so.
Great minds....
If I send an email to hdr22@clintonemail.com now, will I go to prison?
I am curious as to why Platte River was selected in the first place.
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I have heard 2 possible reasons:
1. The big guys in the business always keep backups of their customers data even when asked to do a triple re-format or whatever to erase an HD.
2. Platte River had no such policy but did have a reputation for being experts at scrubbing the data off hard drives.
That will disappear into the private stash of FBI Director Comey in DC as he has personally taken charge of the cover up. No field office involvement. Keep it close to ValJar
Raises the questions of how and why Platte River Networks, a small Denver company, was contracted.
http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing/platte-river-networks-get-visit-fbi-regarding-clinton-email
In any case, it raises the question of how IT service providers should handle such issues with their customers. Diane Krakora, CEO of channel market research and consulting firm PartnerPath, told Talkin’ Cloud that highly public cases like this one give organizations the opportunity to showcase their services and also educate their customers.
“I think this is a great example and opportunity for solution providers to play the trusted advisor and consultant role with their customers,” Diane Krakora, CEO of channel market research and consulting firm Partner Path.
“I don’t know if Platte River Networks knew the email belonged to Hillary Clinton as that might not have been fully disclosed or if was a private (ie non-government) account. They certainly did nothing wrong in delivering the service at the level they were contracted to provide.”
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