Johnson said that “Datto apparently possessed a backup of the server’s contents since June 2013”. Johnson is the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
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For months, we’ve argued that Hillary Clinton broke law to operate an email account on a home-brewed sever. “When we confronted them (Datto) about this, they didn’t have an answer”.
The morning after the Datto news broke, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized four State Department servers in its probe of Clinton’s personal email system.
The investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails expanded dramatically yesterday when the FBI siezed 4 State Department servers to discover if ant classified emails were exposed.
According to congressional documents obtained by The Associated Press, the cyber attacks were blocked by threat monitoring software.
Not only did Datto “defy” that request, he said, the firm never billed Platte River for the backup service.
“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.
Johnson, whose committee is investigating Clinton’s email arrangement, has sent a letter to Victor Nappe, CEO of SECNAP, the company that provided the monitoring software installed on Clinton’s server.
This addresses a question that arose as soon as Datto’s involvement with the former Secretary of State’s computer system was revealed a few days ago: isn’t it unwise to broadcast data that includes classified and Top Secret material across the Internet? It couldn’t tout the win back then and the company still won’t talk today – except through Boian, a crisis-communications expert hired in August. Then, under pressure from critics, she said she was sorry people were confused by the practice, later admitting in early September that her use of a private email system had been a mistake.
This week the State Department pressed Clinton to hand over any additional work-related emails sent using private accounts. “Or perhaps refer the work elsewhere”, Boian said.
Johnson wrote to Datto seeking more information about their dealings with Platte River Networks and Clinton Executive Service Corp. At about the time of that exchange, Platte River had been in discussions with Datto about the length of time Clinton email data was preserved and whether copies were saved, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
While setting up its server for Clinton, Platte River retained Datto to set up a virtual backup server that could provide immediate recovery if the primary server failed, Johnson said in his letter.
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Stone, a controversial figure who recently decamped from Donald Trump’s campaign, also delves into the more fantastical rumors that have dogged the Clintons for years. The intention was to get Clinton’s request on the record.
