Server Company Employee Saw 'Shady' Cover-Up behind Clinton's Requests

[Martha Stewart Went To Jail For Much Less]

An employee of Platte River Networks, the Colorado tech company
that managed Hillary Clinton’s private server, worried they were
inadvertently “covering up some shaddy [sic] shit” by heeding
Clinton’s request to reduce the number of e-mails stored on the
server, according to a letter from Senate Homeland Security
Committee chairman Ron Johnson (R., Wis.).

Johnson’s letter, first reported by McClatchy, quotes a series
of e-mails between Platte River employees late this summer, as
the Clinton e-mail scandal continued to rage. One worker noticed
that Clinton’s representatives had twice instructed the small
tech company to significantly reduce the amount of e-mail data
being stored each time it backed up the server.

In hindsight, the nature and timing of the requests seemed
suspicious. Clinton’s team first asked Platte River to start
storing only the last 30 days of e-mails with each server backup
in October or November of 2014, just before she turned over what
she said were her official e-mails to the State Department. They
reiterated that request in February, just before the scandal
broke publicly. “This whole thing really is covering up some
shaddy [sic] shit,” the unidentified employee wrote, worried
that Platte River Networks could be blamed. “If we have it in
writing that they told us to cut the backups, and then we can go
public with our statement saying we have had backups since day
one, then were told to trim to 30 days, it would make us look a
WHOLE LOT better.”

Johnson’s letter is also the first confirmation of the existence
of another Clinton e-mail trove — this one maintained by the
Connecticut-based Datto, Inc., which contracted with Platte
River to keep a backup copy of Clinton’s server at a cloud-
storage site. In the letter, addressed to Datto, Johnson asks
the company to confirm reports that data from Clinton’s server
was inadvertently stored in the wrong location, and may still be
retained on-site.

Several weeks ago, Platte River employees discovered that
Clinton’s private server was improperly syncing to an off-site
Datto location. “This is a problem,” one Platte River employee
wrote to Datto, asking the company to ensure the data wasn’t
deleted and work to safeguard it until it could be moved back to
Clinton’s server. According to Johnson, the mix-up means that
“Datto apparently possessed a backup of the server’s contents
since 2013.” Johnson said it is unclear whether the server-
backup files retained by Datto still exist. Clinton has said she
deleted more than 31,000 personal e-mails after turning over all
her professional messages to the State Department last December.
The potential existence of another source of Clinton’s
electronic correspondence raises the possibility that many of
these personal e-mails still exist, and could eventually be
released.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425168/server-company-
employee-saw-shady-cover-behind-clintons-requests-brendan-
bordelon