Both Datto and Platte River are cooperating with the investigation and have Clinton’s consent.
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Johnson chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that has been inquiring about Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail server.
A Denver-based technology firm that has managed Hillary Clinton’s private email network since 2013 said the discovery that Clinton’s emails were backed up on an off-site “cloud” network came as “an enormous surprise”.
When Datto officials realized they possessed data from Clinton’s servers, “there was a collective lump in our throats”, one company official told Fox News. Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey explains the significance: “Until now, we have seen evidence of gross negligence in communications of classified information between State Department officials on an unsecured system known to have been penetrated by outsiders at least once, and whose data has been in unsecured and unauthorized hands”.
Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that is suing to try to get a look at the tens of thousands of emails Mrs. Clinton deemed personal, said getting the letter from the State Department is an important step because it should be a warning to her not to delete anything she has.
Not only did Datto “defy” that request, he said, the firm never billed Platte River for the backup service.
Boian said Platte River had purchased a Datto “node” to back up emails on Clinton’s server on a 30-day rolling basis. Johnson said that at that point Platte River “directed Datto to not delete the saved data and worked with Datto to find a way to move the saved information… back to Secretary Clinton’s private server”.
Justin Harvey, chief security officer of Fidelis Cybersecurity, said Clinton “wouldn’t have had the infrastructure to detect or respond to cyber attacks from a nation-state”.
Clinton has said she is sorry she used a private email server as her exclusive email account for government business when she was secretary of state.
In addition, a second tech company turned over servers that stored Clinton emails to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The investigation began after I. Charles McCullough, the intelligence community inspector general, reported to Congress August. 11 that Clinton’s private emails included a few highly classified information labeled “Top Secret//SI/TK//Noforn”.
The request to Clinton attorney David Kendall, dated October 2, comes weeks after the State Department obtained a series of emails that Clinton did not turn over despite her claim that she sent the agency all her work-related correspondence.
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No other details about the servers, including whether they are part of the department’s classified system, or used for unclassified information networks, could be learned.
