Johnson’s letter was sent to Austin McChord, CEO the Connecticut-based Datto, Inc., which was hired by Platte River to backup Clinton’s server.
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“Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up a few shaddy [sic] shit”, the employee wrote. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is separately investigating whether Clinton’s arrangement put classified information at risk.
Tom Fitton, the organization’s president, also said the legal conclusions Judge Walton drew as he sat on the bench were preliminary, and predicted the in the end courts will rule Mrs. Clinton’s server and email accounts tied to it were government-controlled and should be searched by government employees.
The FBI investigation gathered new steam this past Friday when officials at Datto received written consent from both Platte River and Clinton’s camp to turn over relevant data to the FBI, a process that is now underway as Clinton struggles in the polls just days before the first Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.
“Ron Johnson is ripping a page from the House Benghazi Committee’s playbook and mounting his own, taxpayer-funded sham of an investigation with the sole goal of attacking Hillary Clinton politically”, campaign spokesman Fallon said by email.
Staff working for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton feared that they were part of a cover up as a new probe is launched into a cache of supposedly deleted emails on a second server. Thousands of Clinton emails made public under the Freedom of Information Act have been heavily redacted for national security and other reasons.
It was here that a Platte River employee voiced suspicions about a cover-up and sought to protect the company.
But according to Politico, in August, Platte River employees realized that Clinton’s emails were syncing to Datto’s cloud server as well, though Platte River spokesperson Andy Boian said that was not in the contract and “violated the exact instruction we gave them”.
A technology subcontractor hired to work on Clinton’s email setup recommended a security upgrade this summer and expressed concerns about the server’s vulnerability, The Washington Post reports. Datto says it offers two kinds of backup storage: a private cloud virtual server that takes data from a server and converts it into “virtual machines that can be booted instantly”, and an off-site “secure cloud”.
This probably also answers the question about whether Datto technicians were cleared to handle classified material. They want to know what she has deleted from the server and how that relates to her recklessly storing classified information and secrets and how it might be in direct violation to current laws. Their existence challenges Clinton’s claim that she has already provided all of her work emails from her tenure as secretary, which are the subject of numerous public records lawsuits.
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However, the Obama administration has discovered an email chain between Clinton and retired Gen. David Petraeus that shows Clinton was using her private email account to conduct business by January 28, 2009.
