The Washington Post reports that the FBI is interacting with Datto Inc in addition to Platte River.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...d62b53e28_story.html

The FBI’s probe into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mail has expanded to include a second private technology company, which said Tuesday it plans to provide the law enforcement agency with data it preserved from Clinton’s account.

Datto’s work on the Clinton e-mail system became public Tuesday when the Republican chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee sent the company a lengthy letter seeking information about the role it and other firms played in managing the Clinton e-mail system.

“Datto is working with the FBI to provide data in conjunction with its investigation,” said Michael Fass, general counsel at Datto.

Fass said Datto had received consent to turn over data from the Clintons and from Platte River. A Datto official said the FBI would receive a “node,” a piece of hardware the company housed in Pennsylvania that allowed it to store data on its cloud.

Seems a little late, but this is the type of action that is appropriate for a real investigation.

http://freebeacon.com/politics...clinton-email-probe/

The FBI has seized four State Department computer servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email system, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The four servers, which were located at the State Department’s headquarters building, were seized by the FBI several weeks ago.

They are being checked by technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton’s private email by State Department aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, said two people familiar with the probe. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because it is an ongoing investigation.

The FBI is primarily concerned with trying to determine how Top Secret information made its way on to the private server.

The State Department has confirmed to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) in a related development that Clinton currently holds a security clearance for Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, the highest-level security clearance.

The department said Clinton’s clearance was “revalidated” after she left office in 2013 and was done so as part of a standard practice allowing former high-ranking officials to be granted access to secrets.



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why would the FBI not also concerned w the SECRET and CONFIDENTIAL material ?

I hope they are not ignoring the hundreds of issues to just look at 2 emails.

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technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton’s private email by State Department aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, said two people familiar with the probe.

Don't worry Mrs. Clinton we will find those bastards who sent classified information to your private server!
See where this is going?

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The department said Clinton’s clearance was “revalidated” after she left office in 2013 and was done so as part of a standard practice allowing former high-ranking officials to be granted access to secrets.

Oh, boy. So is she still getting emails? And are they now going to yet another unprotected server that's located who knows where?

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The department said Clinton’s clearance was “revalidated” after she left office in 2013 and was done so as part of a standard practice allowing former high-ranking officials to be granted access to secrets.

Oh, boy. So is she still getting emails? And are they now going to yet another unprotected server that's located who knows where?

Silly me! I had the belief that once a person left gubbermint employment that their clearance was cancelled, and they had no right to see anything after they left.

I have held up to TS, TS Crypto, and secret clearances. When I was no longer involved in that work, the clearance was deactivated!

This smacks of more state department shenanigans to cover themselves and the hildabeast.

In fairness, it's not all that unusual for senior brass to keep some kind of clearances in place, just because it's not all that unusual for retired senior brass to be called in for consultations with current staff and the White House.

On one hand, ol' Hill's kind of a poster child for the argument that we shouldn't do that. OTOH, ol' Hill's kind of a poster child for the argument that ol' Hill should never have been granted access to either sensitive information or a position where she would have access to sensitive information. I do kind of wonder, though, how many of the retired brass wind up using that access for nongovernmental purposes.

Of course it isn’t unusual for former high-ranking officials to continue to be granted access to sensitive information, especially if the same Administration that they worked for is still in office. Like it or don’t, some animals are more equal than others, and there’s a vast difference between former cabinet-level officials and most former members of the armed forces.

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Of course it isn’t unusual for former high-ranking officials to continue to be granted access to sensitive information, especially if the same Administration that they worked for is still in office.

Especially when the ex-Secretary is heir presumptive to the office of POTUS and so soon will be the big boss. Add to that the particular ex-Secretary is a notoriously bad person to cross in any respect.


My questions would start with;
What level of supposedly secure information was shared with the ex-Secretary?
What arrangement was made to assure that secure information was properly handled at the receiving end?
How long did this last before some responsible person (assuming such exists in the State Department) thought to question the complete lack of security involved in using open unencrypted email and servers placed in someone’s John?

I was giving Platte River the benefit of the doubt because maybe they didn't know much about the details of the email system. But now I think this company need to have some deep scrutiny and if charges are warranted, they should be prosecuted.

Besides the Datto server mentioned above, it is also being reported that Platte River had another device associated with the Clinton server.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10...clintons-it-company/

Platte River Networks has already given the FBI the server Clinton maintained as secretary of state. Now, the small IT firm will hand over a separate device manufactured by a Connecticut-based company called Datto Inc.

“The data device is a simple device that sat next to the server,” Platte River spokesman Andy Boian told TheDC in a phone interview.


Boian said that the Datto device could be handed over as early as Wednesday and that the FBI requested it earlier this week.

He also said that the company asked Clinton’s team to approve the hand-over of the second piece of hardware and that they complied.


The second handover raises the question of why, if it was so important to Clinton’s email configuration, it wasn’t turned over sooner.

“We were asked by the FBI to turn over the server, so we complied with the request,” Boian said. “That’s all that was asked for.”


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Platte River knows this is an investigation into classified material. Responses such as “That’s all that was asked for.” do not sound like cooperation.

In response to people questioning her job as Sec of State, Hillary sent copies of her book "Hard Choices" to the Republican candidates. As expected, this action became fodder for funny zinngers thrown at her. I like this one from the Carson campaign:

“We wondered what she was going to do with all of those unsold copies. But after skimming the book it is now clear that dismal sales were caused by not properly classifying the book as fiction.”

Trey Gowdy sends Elijah Cummings a very blunt letter.

link to the letter is in the first para of this article:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/...e-libya_1042610.html


parts of the ltr to Cummings:

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Trey Gowdy sends Elijah Cummings a very blunt letter.

link to the letter is in the first para of this article:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/...e-libya_1042610.html

You should read that letter, carefully, to get a feel for what is really going on behind closed doors, for years.

That letter is eye opening to say the least

Wow.

Sidney Blumenthal had his hooks into Hillary during the Libyan uprising against Quaddhafi against the express orders of President Obama in order to get her to facilitate a contract with mercenaries!?!? Aaaannd there's a smoking gun to go with it?

You better believe that "[t]he revelations in these new emails raise the likelihood that the Committee will need to bring back Sidney Blumenthal to reopen his deposition"!

Oh, the fireworks we have coming...

Were these recent letter Gowdy references part of the originally released 30k that has slowly been trickling out of State, or are they from the 30k BCW said were about yoga schedules and personal business? I'm unclear which batch birthed these new revelations.

Everything about the forgotten war in Libya felt shady as hell. I hope more spills out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ish-Abedin-edge.html

Huma and Chelsea competing to be "first lady" in a HC presidency.

A Clinton campaign source revealed that Chelsea and Huma 'are being seriously discussed' for the first lady spot.


This is getting too weird.

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Were these recent letter Gowdy references part of the originally released 30k that has slowly been trickling out of State

From the article

http://freebeacon.com/national...f-the-books-adviser/

The new revelations were contained in a batch of 1,500 emails from Clinton provided to the committee last month. According to Gowdy, 500 pages of those emails were to or from Blumenthal.

Among the newly revealed emails were a pair of messages from July 2011 in which Blumenthal described efforts to secure Libyan government contracts for Osprey Global Solutions, a company in which Blumenthal has admitted to having a financial interest.

Blumenthal warned Clinton that French companies were looking to scoop up security contracts from the Transitional National Council, the revolutionary government of the Libyan resistance, and plugged Osprey’s ability to be an American counterweight.

Emails also show that Clinton actively promoted security arrangements that might have benefitted Osprey. Blumenthal told Clinton in an April 2011 email that Libyan revolutionary leaders were “considering the possibility of hiring private security firms to help train and organize their forces.”

Clinton forwarded that email to Sullivan, adding, “the idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.”

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That letter is eye opening to say the least

No doubt. Wow. If the statements in that letter are factual, then there are several more violations of laws and ethics than have already been reported. If this was nearly anyone else in the country, she'd already be charged and been taken to jail. The media and both party's politicians would be clamoring for her to drop out of any and all election campaigns, the media would be hammering this in coverage. It constantly amazes and shocks me what the Clintons can get away with.