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.
But she CAN be the most evil b1tch on the planet.
Yet somehow, some way, you know in your heart it is. :-)
Remember the Bill The Rapist’s administration?
I think most of his brood of bandits with “titles” at the White House had no clearance.
Who was that guy (Sandy Berger aka Sandy Burglar) that was caught stuffing his pockets with classified documents when he worked for the Clintons?
He skated.
Hannity had the laws and rules for classified documents going across his screen last nite which showed that Hilliary and many of her partners-in-crime should go to jail as should have Sandy The Burglar.
Satan has sprayed all of them (and Obama and his crew of mobsters) with Teflon.
It’s gonna be roundup time eventually, buy stock in rope.
They still hang traitors don’t they?
Maybe the Platt River folks set up a system of passwords so that schrillary could sell various documents off the server to the highest bidder.....just sayin.
I doubt that would even slow down foreign military IT specialists for more than five minutes.
It does not matter when it comes to Classified data. Homeland Security has been known to walk in and take the whole server and the backups over one email. They use the National Security Act of 1947, and normally they have or can get a warrant pretty easy.
That would be the one printed out email that would kept in a few places as my get out of jail card.
“Soros and the DNC may feel it would be better to just make this problem go away”
I have been thinking the same thing all day.
Our security has been sold to the highest bidder.
I am praying there will be some honorable men/women in the FBI/DOJ.
Wow-can you provide any additional info/source?
Why hasn’t the press asked Obama what he thinks about Hillary’s blatant disregard for the nations secrets.
Why hasn’t the press asked Obama what he thinks about Hillary’s blatant disregard for the nations secrets.
Democrats are invulnerable. The MSM is on their side.
I’ll throw a block party the day I see this witch doing the perp walk.
Oh that there would be any justice in this life.
Criminals like her have gotten away with crimes for so long that they think they are untouchable. Someone needs to make a huge example of her.
We need a 21st century Thomas E. Dewey.
What about everyone who received emails from Hillary? Didn’t they notice they weren’t coming through with the State Department email address? People must have her emails in their inbox. Funny how none have surfaced.
And for the true irony:
Hitlery is the person who said we should depend upon her when that 3:00 a.m. call comes in???
Someone with blatant carelessness for security?
So, anything on the server about Obama just went Bi Bi.
No wonder the admin waited so long to collect the server ..?????????
Somebody get the hook; these people have been on the stage ..... waaaaaaaaaay too long.
Who provided the Server prior to 2013. Clinton was SOS since 2009.
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