Connecticut firm backed up Clinton’s server, might still have personal emails

[Valin]

McClatchy Washington Bureau‎:

Highlights

Clinton hired Datto Inc. to provide a private cloud backup – a virtual server

Some of Clinton’s emails apparently migrated to the firm’s off-site server, as well

Did Clinton aides order email storage reduced as State Department sought records?

Greg Gordon

Oct. 6 2015

 

WASHINGTON

 

Hillary Clinton hired a Connecticut company to back up her emails, and due to a technical glitch some may still reside on one of the firm’s “cloud” storage sites, a Republican Senate committee chairman revealed.

 

The disclosures, in a letter Monday from Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, heighten the possibility that some of Clinton’s more than 31,000 personal emails may still be recovered. She said last March that she deleted them all upon turning over her official emails to the State Department in December 2014.

 

Congressional committees have voiced skepticism as to whether the 30,940 emails that the Democratic presidential candidate handed over represented all of her official emails. The FBI is separately investigating whether Clinton’s arrangement put classified information at risk.

 

His letter to the chief executive of Datto Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., offers the first public confirmation that Clinton or her aides arranged for a backup of her email server after leaving office.

 

The letter also recounts a series of events that led an employee of Colorado-based Platte River Networks to air suspicions in an email as to whether “this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy s^#@,” according to an excerpt of an email cited by Johnson, who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

 

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Previous Thred

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FBI SEIZES FOUR STATE DEPARTMENT SERVERS IN CLINTON EMAIL PROBE

 

Bill Gertz

 

The FBI has seized four State Department computer servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email system, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The four servers, which were located at the State Department’s headquarters building, were seized by the FBI several weeks ago. They are being checked by technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton’s private email by State Department aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, said two people familiar with the probe. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because it is an ongoing investigation.

State Department spokesman John Kirby referred questions about the computer servers to the FBI. An FBI spokeswoman, Carol Cratty, declined to comment.

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.

A spokesman for the Clinton campaign did not respond to an email request for comment.

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/fbi-seizes-four-state-department-servers-in-clinton-email-probe/

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FBI SEIZES FOUR STATE DEPARTMENT SERVERS IN CLINTON EMAIL PROBE

 

Bill Gertz

 

 

 

"Clinton has offered varying explanations for her use of a private email server, initially claiming she had done nothing wrong. 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." She Lied Like A Rug!

 

If I may quote the Apostle John "and the truth is not in that person"

 

Why not just have the CIA or NSA hack into the Russian, Chinese system and get what they got from the Queen's private rouge illegal server? Because you know everything she said or received for 4 years is know to them. And that's the Big Story!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C73CEl61dw0

[Casino67]

The pieces keep adding up. Going to need a scorecard to keep up with Gowdy''s interrogation of her later this month. I can't wait.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Clinton subject to hack attempts from China, Korea, Germany

KEN DILANIAN JACK GILLUM STEPHEN BRAUN

Oct 8 2015

 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email server, which stored some 55,000 pages of emails from her time as secretary of state, was the subject of attempted cyberattacks originating in China, South Korea and Germany after she left office in early 2013, according to a congressional document obtained by The Associated Press.

 

While the attempts were apparently blocked by a "threat monitoring" product that Clinton's employees connected to her network in October 2013, there was a period of more than three months from June to October 2013 when that protection had not been installed, according to a letter from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. That means her server was possibly vulnerable to cyberattacks during that time.

 

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Clinton has not said what, if any, firewall or threat protection was used on her email server before June 2013, including the time she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and the server was kept in her home in the New York City suburbs.

 

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It was not immediately clear whether the attempted intrusions into Clinton's server were serious espionage threats or the sort of nuisance attacks that hit computer servers the world over. But the new revelations underscore the extent to which any private email server is a target, raising further questions about Clinton's decision to undertake sensitive government business over private email stored on a homemade system.

 

Any hackers who got access to her server in 2013 or 2014 could have stolen a trove of sensitive email traffic involving the foreign relations of the United States. Thousands of Clinton emails made public under the Freedom of Information Act have been heavily redacted for national security and other reasons.

 

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H/T Power Line

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Hillary’s emails: What the FBI is up to
Paul Mirengoff
October 8, 2015

In response to my post about the FBI’s prospects for recovering Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails, now that a number of important devices are (or soon will be) in its possession, a reader writes:

As both a lawyer and computer forensics specialist, I can tell you that what is quite likely happening is that the FBI is reconstructing Mrs. Clinton’s previous email data universe by mining several data sources.

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Two other points: 1) if the FBI were going easy on this politically charged case, they would not be going to the lengths they are going (or leaking, or abetting the leaking of so much information); 2) you don’t see Hillary exclaiming, “Great! I am so glad they can undelete the emails I deleted, that was such a big mistake, now the proof will vindicate me.” That is a dog that is not barking. So to speak.

 

Our reader’s final point has occurred to me, as well. I guess Hillary really doesn’t want the world to learn more about her yoga.

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Emails Suggest Clinton Pushed Libyan Business Interests of Off-the-Books Adviser
Clinton shared classified identity of CIA source, Gowdy reveals in scathing letter to top Benghazi committee Dem
Lachlan Markay and Brent Scher
October 8, 2015

 

 

A Hillary Clinton confidante and informal adviser used his direct access to the then-secretary of state to promote his business interests in Libya during that country’s 2011 unrest, newly released documents reveal. According to a letter from Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., Okla.), chairman of the House panel investigating the 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, Clinton internally raised the possibility of employing American security contractors, one of which Sidney Blumenthal had a direct financial interest in.

 

In a letter last week to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.), the ranking Democrat on the Benghazi committee, Gowdy also reveals that Blumenthal, who frequently emailed Clinton regarding the security situation in Libya, sent an email to Clinton’s personal address containing the name of a Central Intelligence Agency source in Libya.

 

“This information, the name of a human source, is some of the most protected information in our intelligence community, the release of which could jeopardize not only national security but also human lives,” Gowdy wrote. “Armed with that information, Secretary Clinton forwarded the email to a colleague—debunking her claim that she never sent any classified information from her private email address,” Gowdy noted.

 

H/T Hot Air

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More Here At Washington Free Beacon

 

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Benghazi committee, under fire, releases more Clinton emails
Michael Isikoff
October 8, 2015

 

Hillary Clinton used her private email account to pass along the identity of one of the CIA’s top Libyan intelligence sources, raising new questions about her handling of classified information, according to excerpts from previously undisclosed emails released Thursday by Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

 

On March 18, 2011, Sidney Blumenthal — Clinton’s longtime friend and political adviser — sent the then secretary of state an email to her private account that contained apparently highly sensitive information he had received from Tyler Drumheller, a former top CIA official with whom Blumenthal at the time had a business relationship.

 

“Tyler spoke to a colleague currently at CIA, who told him the agency had been dependent for intelligence from [redacted due to sources and methods],” the email states, according to Gowdy’s letter.

 

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Hillary’s Spymaster
Add to her private email server a private ­intelligence network.
MARK HEMINGWAY
Oct 19, 2015, Vol. 21, No. 06

Hillary Clinton is running her first national television commerical, and amidst a cloud of scandal and falling poll numbers, she’s already playing defense. The ad claims that the House Republicans’ committee to investigate Benghazi “was created to destroy her candidacy.” That was hardly the purpose of the committee, but it’s true that the revelations have been politically fortuitous for Republicans. Since the committee exposed Clinton’s apparently illegal use of a private server to conduct State Department business, she’s been caught in more than a few untruths. Clinton can’t seem to answer questions about her conduct as secretary of state fast enough to keep her presidential campaign on track.




And the latest question to emerge is a doozy: Did a former CIA officer on Hillary Clinton’s payroll orchestrate a major media scandal in order to discredit Benghazi critics?

In March, a joint investigation by Gawker and ProPublica dug through Hillary Clinton’s emails and found that longtime Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal had been working with a former CIA officer named Tyler Drumheller as part of a “private spy ring.” Blumenthal is a particularly oily operative best known for accusations that he dishonestly smeared Monica Lewinsky to the press. Of late, he’s drawn a salary from the Clinton Foundation while, according to the New York Times, acting as “a paid consultant to Media Matters and American Bridge, organizations that helped lay the groundwork for Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign.” If Blumenthal has a particular role in Clinton World, it’s manipulating the media.

Like Blumenthal, Drumheller has a somewhat questionable reputation. He left the CIA in 2005 and wrote a book accusing his superiors of ignoring his warnings that evidence used to justify invading Iraq was flawed. Former CIA director George Tenet, who served under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, used several pages of his 2007 memoir At the Center of the Storm to discredit and otherwise challenge Drumheller’s version of events.

 

As for what these two men were doing working together, emails show Drumheller was producing intelligence reports on Libya and other trouble spots that Blumenthal was passing on to Secretary Clinton....................(Snip)

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Drip...Drip...Drip...Drip...

Report: FBI probe of Hillary is focused on Section 793(f) of Espionage Act
Paul Mirengoff
October 15, 2015

Some weeks ago, I attempted a preliminary analysis of whether Hillary Clinton violated 18 U.S.C. Section 793(f). This provision states:

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Now, Fox News reports that “an intelligence source familiar with the [FBI] investigation of Clinton” says the Bureau is focused on whether there were violations of this very provision of the Espionage Act. The intelligence source points out that Section 793(f) says nothing about classified information, but instead is triggered by lawful possession of national defense information when a security clearance holder “through gross negligence,” such as the use of an unsecure computer network, permits the material to be removed or abstracted from its proper, secure location.

 

That sounds a lot like what Hillary Clinton did.

 

It seems beyond dispute that Hillary had possession or control of documents relating to the national defense. Indeed, some of her documents have been designated as “originally classified” which means, by definition, that their disclosure “reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security.”

In addition, the case seems strong that Clinton removed such information from its proper place of custody and/or delivered it to someone in violation of her trust. I would argue that having information relating to the national defense on a private server constitutes removing it from its proper place of custody.

 

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CIA source revealed in new Clinton email

 

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, released an email Sunday from a former adviser to Hillary Clinton after the CIA cleared the document for release late Saturday evening.

 

The email, which was sent to Clinton by Sidney Blumenthal, a close confidante, indicates the former secretary of State forwarded a memo that contained the identity of a CIA source.

 

"[T]he name of the alleged source was redacted from the material cleared for public release by someone in the Executive Branch – the fact that the CIA says it didn't do it does not mean the material was not sensitive or classified," Gowdy wrote in a letter Sunday to Rep. Elijah Cummings, the select committee's top Democrat. "And in fact, additional information remains in the document that ordinarily would be considered highly sensitive. This appears to mean either Mr. Blumenthal conveyed false and unreliable information to Secretary Clinton about Libya and misrepresented it, or the review process is faulty or has been politicized."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cia-source-revealed-in-new-clinton-email/article/2574390

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About Those Hillary Emails
STEPHEN F. HAYES
Oct 26, 2015, Vol. 21, No. 07

One of the most memorable moments from the first Democratic presidential debate was an unexpected one. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic-socialist senator from Vermont who is leading the polls in New Hampshire, took a question about the email scandal that has badly complicated Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Rather than use it as a truncheon to hurt his primary opponent, Sanders took the occasion to defend her.

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Clinton’s problems don’t end with the committee. Her main challenges now come from two sources that she cannot credibly dismiss as partisan: the FBI and the contents of her own emails.

 

Consider:

 

- The FBI is expanding its investigation into the security of her server and the possible mishandling of classified materials.

 

- Last month, the FBI seized four servers from the State Department as part of its probe.

 

- A second tech company involved in providing security for Clinton’s emails, Datto, Inc., previously unknown to the public, agreed to cooperate with the FBI probe and will turn over its files to the bureau to assist with the investigation.

 

- Newly released internal emails from the first data company, Platte River, indicate that employees there believed there had been a “directive to cut the backup” of Clinton emails—that is, an order to reduce the amount of time the company would keep the Clinton data.

 

- An employee at Platte River also suggested a cover-up of some kind, writing to a colleague: “Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy [sic] s^#@.”

 

Add to this the explosive information disclosed last week in a letter from Gowdy previewing the release of a new batch of Clinton emails. These are “new” emails only because the State Department initially refused to turn them over to the committee, saying they were beyond the jurisdiction of the Benghazi investigation.

 

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Rubio Explains Hillary’s Lie
John Hinderaker
October 29, 2015

This morning, Marco Rubio appeared on CBS’s This Morning program. Host Charlie Rose appeared to be appalled by Rubio’s statement in last night’s debate that Hillary Clinton lied about Benghazi. For most of us, this is like saying that the Sun rose in the East, but to Rose it was evidently a new idea. So he tried to defend Hillary, unsuccessfully. Marco gave him chapter and verse, briefly and effectively:

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Via Andy McCarthy at The Corner.

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@Casino67

Gonna move it here. trying to keep this stuff in one place.

Obama drawn into Clinton email controversy
As State Department releases the latest batch, the White House is trying to hold back the release of Clinton's emails with Obama.
By Nick Gass , Josh Gerstein and Rachael Bade
10/30/15

Hundreds more emails from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state were newly deemed classified as part of Friday's State Department release of more than 7,000 pages of her messages, which revealed more about Clinton's knowledge of embassy security issues and lighter moments like Clinton's use of emojis.

 

Friday's document release is the sixth of its kind and with it, more than half of the messages turned over to the agency have now been made publicly available. The 268 emails now deemed classified in this batch are at the lowest classification tier, according to State Department spokesman John Kirby, who said that none of these emails "were marked classified at the time they were sent or received." There are now between 600 and 700 emails newly marked as classified since the releases began in May.

 

Clinton, who has been battling the controversy regarding her exclusive use of a private email account and homebrew server during her tenure at Foggy Bottom, has contended that no emails on her account were marked as classified at the time she received them.

 

 

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BTW Good Catch. You keep this up you'll get an attaboy.....Could happen.

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5 Can’t-Miss Hillary Emails from New Batch

by Bridget Johnson

October 30, 2015 - 6:58 pm

 

The State Department dumped a new batch of thousands of Hillary Clinton emails today. Here are a few that jumped out:

 

1. She really wanted to respond to Ben Affleck

 

And, as we see, Ben Affleck was able to contact Hillary directly (as we learned in the recent Benghazi hearing, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens did not have her contact info). In the later email chain, Clinton gets persistent with her staff about seeing a draft of a response by the close of business, because she really wanted to respond to Affleck about the Congo that day. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/10/30/5-cant-miss-hillary-emails-from-new-batch/

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Clinton Made Time For Donors At State Department
SHOSHANA WEISSMANN
9:09 AM, Nov 2, 2015

Hillary Clinton always makes time for friends at the State Department—especially those who have money.

 

In a newly released email from the State Department, an official sends Clinton her schedule. On that schedule, one sees the entry, "3:10 pm (t) PRIVATE DROP-BY — DANNY ABRAHAM (T)."

 

Abraham isn't just an old friend, he's also founder of Slim Fast and a big donor to the Clintons. He has contributed between $5 and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, and almost a million in hard and soft money to the Clintons.

 

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Hillary Clinton Announces Plan to Limit Money in Politics

Sam Frizell

Sept. 8, 2015

 

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“We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans,”

Hillary Clinton

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Memo: Hackers went after State Department personal emails while Clinton was SecState
Taylor Millard
November 6, 2015

The Clintonemail case is getting curiouser and curiouser as a State Department memo shows Hillary Clinton was warned about the potential of hacks on private emails while Secretary. Competitive Enterprise Institute and Washington Free Beacon got the 2011 memo showing security officials were very worried about phishing attacks.

Threat analysis by the DS cyber security team and related incident reports indicate a dramatic increase since January 2011 in attempts by to comprise the private home e-mail accounts of senior Department officials. The actors are targeting senior United State government officials and their staffs. Victims include personnel at the Ambassador, Assistant Secretary, and Under Secretary levels at DoS, EOP, DoD, DOJ, Treasury, and the U.S. Senate.

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No one is saying where the hackers were coming from, but Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News earlier this year that he was sure Russia and China were reading his emails. Plus there’s the NBC News report from August saying China was snooping into U.S. government emails in 2010 (emphasis mine).

China’s cyber spies have accessed the private emails of “many” top Obama administration officials, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official and a top secret document obtained by NBC News, and have been doing so since at least April 2010…


In 2011, Google disclosed that the private gmail accounts of some U.S. officials had been compromised, but the briefing shows that private email accounts from other providers were compromised as well.

The government email accounts assigned to the officials, however, were not hacked because they are more secure, says the senior U.S. intelligence official.

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