Senator Ron Johnson, the Republican chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, revealed Datto Inc.’s involvement on Tuesday when he sent the Connecticut-based firm a letter asking it to explain how Clinton’s emails were handled, and to turn over any messages still found in its systems. Before then, Clinton has said, she used an old AT&T Blackberry email account, which she says she can no longer access.
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[ Justice Department attorney Marcia ] Berman called that “an incredibly novel legal theory” and she said it was foreclosed by a 1980 Supreme Court decision that held FOIA could not be used to obtain near-transcripts of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s phone conversations.
“As a result, I ask that you confirm that, with regard to her tenure as Secretary of State, former Secretary Clinton has provided the Department with all federal records in her possession, regardless of their format or the domain on which they were stored or created, that may not otherwise be preserved in the Department’s record keeping system”, Kennedy wrote to Kendall.
The report comes amid ongoing scrutiny over the security of Clinton’s server and the scope through which classified documents were shared over it. “Additionally, questions still remain as to whether Datto actually transferred the data from its off-site datacenter to the on-site server, what data was backed up, and whether Datto wiped the data after it was transferred”.
According to Johnson’s letter, Platte River employees expressed “confusion” after they discovered that Clinton’s server “was potentially being sent to Datto’s off-site location”.
The moment Denver’s Platte River Networks realized that e-mails of its most famous client were being uploaded into the cloud, 26 months had passed since signing on Hillary Clinton and her family.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on October 2, 2015 in Davie, Florida.
Although a spokesman for Platte River said the company never asked Datto to make copies of the emails and store them on an offsite cloud server, and claims it was never billed for the server either.
It was here that a Platte River employee voiced suspicions about a cover-up and sought to protect the company.
A Datto official said that investigators may be able to recover the e-mails if the data existed at the time the company was hired in May 2013 and had not been altered since.
Because of the security implications involved in handling Clinton’s emails, Platte River instructed Datto to not delete the data.
Datto Inc. did not provide immediate comment to McClatchy on Johnson’s letter. Even as Hillary Clinton laughs off her forthcoming testimony in front of the Benghazi committee, her numbers are sinking in the most liberal of polls, as her “untrustworthiness” score inches over 60 in key early-primary states.
Datto’s involvement was made public on Tuesday when Sen.
This week the State Department pressed Clinton to hand over any additional work-related emails sent using private accounts. “We have also informed Congress of this matter”.
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Mr. Fitton said they will pursue the case, and the same issues have been raised before other judges in the same courthouse.
