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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.
OK. But why did Clinton pick that obscure firm in the first place?
Accent sounds like Upper Midwest, the long “aaaah”
Platte River. Platte, Nebraska?
I want to know why this firm was contracted. There has to be a connection somewhere.
Remember the good old days when Hillary could blame Bill for really messing things up because he couldn’t keep it in his pants?
This is getting VERY serious.
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For anyone else you would be absolutely right except that she is untouchable. Being the wife of a former president, no matter how egregious her crime, she will never go to jail. That’s just how corrupt Washington DC works.
Send her to Israel for “extraordinary rendition”...
Yes.
scorpion on the back of the frog?
Hillary never deleted the emails. She needs that information for future books, leverage against political foes, and for purposes of evading responsibility for political wildfires of her making. There is no way she would erase that invaluable information. It is a priceless asset to her.
The biggest laugh in DC during the Lewinsky Time was the claim that “Hillary grew furious when he finally admitted to her that, despite his prior denials, yes, he had been involved with Monica”
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!!!”
Everyone would roar with laughter, even though the last 10 people through the door had done the same thing, and have another drink.
It was like yelling “Opa” at a Greek wedding.
I want to know why this firm was contracted. There has to be a connection somewhere.
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This is not an uncommon occurrence in the federal contracting world. Contracts are sometimes “steered” to certain people for certain reasons. Not all the time mind you, but it does definitely happen.
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Only the Clintoons know the answer to that, but maybe they heard about Platte River when this happened (see link below) and figured they weren't squeaky clean & wouldn't be bothered too much by turning their head on some of the server stuff(?). All pure speculation on my part.
Hillary’s next line, delivered in a green dress;
“I’m melting.... and it’s all a RWC!”
If it keeps the bitch out of the WH, it works for me.
The same Guccifer who hacked George W. Bush’s email account and leaked personal family information and pictures?
If he found out about her unsecured server, I can pretty much guarantee that everyone in eastern Europe knows everything that was on that server. The Chinese and the Russians know too. I just heard him the other day in an interview talking about how they share everything that they learn and insinuated how silly Americans need to look out because something bad is coming.
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