Federal Bureau of Investigation Reaches Deeper Into Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal

One of the employees of the computer services company that Hillary Clinton used for her personal email server while at the State Department said the contraption could have been used in “covering up a few shady s–“, a new report claims.

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 the Clinton’s emails were handled, and to turn over any messages still found in its systems. Ron Johnson, Platte River Networks – the tech company in charge of managing Clinton’s email system – hired Datto Inc.in May 2013 to back up Clinton’s email accounts.

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

Farrell said in an interview that the department also has been unwilling to say whether the private email system, used by Clinton and close aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, should be considered an official State Department network covered by FOIA laws. Clinton has said that confidential data was never put at risk. 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”.

The subcontractor, Datto, which specializes in backing up data, had not been aware that it was handling Clinton e-mails until media reports in August noted the Platte River Networks’ involvement with the controversy surrounding the former secretary of state’s e-mails.

Now, the State Department wants Clinton to go back to her Internet company to recover messages from any personal accounts she may have had.

“It’s not that we ignored them, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation had told us not to change or adjust anything”, the spokesman, Andy Boian, said. Neither Datto nor Platte River would have known of specific classification of information on the server, but Platte River seems to have understood that it was at least sensitive. They were probing Clinton’s server directly, not through email.

Johnson highlighted the vulnerability of Clinton’s private email server, which was reportedly without protection for three months before the software was installed.

“I just don’t see what my authority under FOIA would be”, said Judge Walton, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.

Clinton campaign spokesperson Brian Fallon rejected Johnson’s inquiry, calling the committee’s probe a “taxpayer-funded sham of an investigation with the sole objective of attacking Hillary Clinton politically”, according to the AP.