Second tech company cooperating with Federal Bureau of Investigation on Clinton emails

Platte River spokesman Andy Boian said the firm bought a device from Datto that constantly snaps images of a server’s contents and connected it to the Clinton server at a New Jersey data storage facility.

Many computer experts have questioned Clinton’s use of the private system while in office.

Clinton has turned over thousands of pages of e-mails to the State Department for public release, but a few Republicans lawmakers have called for the 31,000 deleted e-mails she deemed personal to be recovered.

The Obama administration argues that Mrs Clinton was essentially using a private email and so it’s up to her to go through the messages.

The employee indicates in the email that Clinton’s team asked them to change the back-up duration between October and February, presumably of 2014/2015, though that isn’t explicitly stated in the portion of the email included in Johnson’s letter.

Officials at the company, Datto Inc., were anxious about the “sensitive high-profile nature of the data”, a company source told The Washington Post.

Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton addresses press over email controversy March 10, 2015.

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.

Datto first told Platte River employees that it had stored a collection of Clinton’s emails in the cloud after they approached Datto with the FBI’s request that it turn over the node, Boian explained.

It was here that the Platte River employee voiced suspicions about a cover-up and sought to protect the company.

That implies that Datto’s servers had backups of Clinton’s emails dating back to June 2013. As long as the emails existed in 2013 and weren’t altered in any way following Datto’s acquisition, a lot of Clinton’s information could still be left on the cloud.

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.

Datto did not immediately provide comment to McClatchy. 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.

“These emails are now in our possession and will be subject to Freedom of Information Act requests”, State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

Both Datto and Platte River are cooperating with the investigation and have Clinton’s consent.

Clinton’s front-runner campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has only heightened interest in whether her account was ever hacked, possibly compromising national security.