“Mr. Boian said the Clinton server was picked up at the Clintons’ home in New York and moved to a “secure data center in New Jersey,” where it operated until last week. He said the computer was operational when Platte River took possession of it”
DeCamillis referred most questions about the specifics of the company’s relationship with the Clintons and the actual setup of the server to Andy Boian, a public relations manager brought on last week to help Platte River deal with its newfound fame.
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No clearance
How Platte River was selected is one of a number of unanswered questions about how Hillary Clinton chose to safeguard records that, it is now clear, included sensitive information.
The intelligence community’s inspector general has said that two of the e-mails contained top-secret material, the highest level of classification, and should not have been stored on a private server. State Department officials have said that hundreds more could contain classified material.
[What you need to know about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails]
DeCamillis said that the company has undergone various background checks for clients in the past but that he did not think any of its employees held formal government-issued security clearances.
A spokeswoman for an agency within the Defense Department that vets companies for security clearances said her office has not extended one to Platte River Networks.
DeCamillis also said the company has never had a federal government contract. He said the company has about 300 clients and offers full-time services to about 100 of them, 85 percent of which are located within an hour of the company’s Denver office.
He said the company employs a number of security measures to protect the data of its customers, including a firewall and anti-virus software. “We treat every customer with the same level of technical expertise, security and redundancy,” he said.
Platte River representatives have said the company took Clinton’s server from her Chappaqua, N.Y., home in June 2013, transferring it to a secure facility in New Jersey.
Last week, an attorney for the company said the server was “blank” when it was turned over to the FBI. Attorney Barbara Wells also said that at one point, data from the server was “migrated” to another server for the purpose of making the transition to Platte River.
But Boian, the public relations manager, said he could no longer be confident that Wells’s information about the server being blank had been accurate.
He added: “I don’t have any information that the server was wiped. Nor do I have any information to suggest it wasn’t. ... The information I have for sure is that the server itself, when it migrated from Chappaqua to the data center, it was installed at the data center and left alone.”
Platte River was probably selected on the basis of being worthless, ignorant and insignificant peons that could serve as an unwitting scapegoat without having to sacrifice a loyal servant or damage any political connections. Note the timeline - it was way after anything significant was done on that email system.
She might as well just come clean...bad news does not get better as time goes on. Only gets smellier.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_28670015/platte-river-networks-clinton-e-mail-server-was
Private e-mail servers are unusual because they carry greater risks of getting hacked, said Scott W. Burt, president and CEO of Integro, a Denver e-mail management company.
“There are a lot of people you could hire, and they would set up (an e-mail server) and run it. That’s not hard. But there’s no real reason to do that,” Burt said. “The main motivator is you’re nervous about what is in your e-mail. It’s a control thing.”
Boian said Platte River had nothing to do with Clinton’s private home server.
Platte River, which submitted a bid for the e-mail job, stepped in four months after Clinton left the secretary job on Feb. 1, 2013, and three months after Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House staffer, reported that his e-mail account had been hacked, exposing messages sent to Clinton.
“We were literally hired in June 2013,” Boian said, “and because we use industry best practices, we had (Clinton’s) server moved to a data center in New Jersey. It remained in that spot until last week,” when the FBI picked it up Aug. 12.
Platte River also is not in possession of any Clinton e-mail backups, he said.
“The role of Platte River Networks was to upgrade, secure and manage the e-mail server for both the Clintons and their staff beginning June 2013. Platte River Networks is not under investigation. We were never under investigation. And we will fully comply with the FBI,” he said.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has given Platte River Networks until Tuesday to answer very specific questions about how that server was maintained.
In a letter to Platte River Networks CEO, Treve Suazo, the committee wants to know the following:
Please produce all documents and communications between or among employees or contractors of Platte River Networks and employees of the State Department referring or relating to Platte River Networks’ work related to Secretary Clinton’s private server.
Please produce all documents and communications between or among employees or contractors of Platte River Networks and Secretary Clinton or any representative of the Clinton family or Clinton Foundation referring or relating to Secretary Clinton’s private server.
Please produce all contracts between Platte River Networks, Secretary Clinton, the State Department, or any other party referring or relating to Platte River Networks’ work related to Secretary Clinton’s private server.
Please produce all invoices, bills, and receipts prepared by Platte River Networks or its representatives or agents regarding Platte River Networks’ work related to Secretary Clinton’s private server.
Was Platte River Networks ever made aware that the information on Secretary Clinton’s private server may contain classified or sensitive security data? If so, how did Platte River Networks learn about the classified or sensitive information? Please explain.
Is Platte River Networks authorized to maintain or access classified information? Please explain.
Did any employee of Platte River Networks receive training in the handling of classified information as it relates to Platte River Networks’ work on Secretary Clinton’s private server?
Did any employee of Platte River Networks receive training on preserving federal records pursuant to the Federal Records Act of 1950 as it relates to Platte River Networks’ work on Secretary Clinton’s private server?