Posted on 08/18/2015 9:34:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A nifty piece from the Daily Mail. You would think a cabinet member who had every reason to assume that classified information would be circulating on her server would insist on a company renowned for security. Instead she went with a small outfit in Colorado, largely unknown outside the region, whose pipeline to the Clintons appears to have been the fact that their VP of sales was a big Democratic booster and got them some work at the 2008 Democratic convention.
Were state secrets being stored on a server in an apartment bathroom?
One [former Platte River Networks employee], Tera Dadiotis, called it ‘a mom and pop shop’ which was an excellent place to work, but hardly seemed likely to be used to secure state secrets. And Tom Welch, who helped found the company, confirmed the servers were in a bathroom closet.
Speaking to Daily Mail Online at her home in Castle Rock, Colorado, Tera said: ‘I think it’s really bizarre, I don’t know how that relationship evolved.
‘At the time I worked for them they wouldn’t have been equipped to work for Hilary Clinton because I don’t think they had the resources, they were based out of a loft, so [it was] not very high security, we didn’t even have an alarm…
Wherever the truth lies, Tera thinks Platte River was an unsuitable choice for Clinton, she said: ‘It’s so weird, because it’s just a small IT company. I know they’ve expanded quite a bit since I left but I do think it’s strange, we only had the three owners and like eight employees. We didn’t do any work in other states.”
Not only that, but to this day they don’t have an IT security clearance from the feds to handle classified materials. One of the founders of the company, who’s since left, also said he was surprised to learn that Platte River would have a major client like Hillary Clinton given its small regional reach. When the Daily Mail asked him how he thinks the company landed on Hillary’s radar, he noted that they’d done some work for John Hickenlooper’s mayoral campaign in Denver in 2004 and wondered if that had come to Hillary’s attention somehow. They did a bit of work for the 2008 convention in Denver, which Hillary attended of course, so maybe a connection was made there. Or maybe their vice president of sales somehow drummed up the business. He’s a Democrat and attended the convention as well. But the timeline is strange here: All of these connections are happening circa 2008, yet Hillary didn’t move her server out of her basement and over to Platte River until mid-2013 according to a company lawyer who spoke to the Daily Mail. Why would she have remembered them five years later? The only theory I can come up with is that it’s precisely because they were small, with fewer leak opportunities, that she might have trusted them more than she would have a behemoth IT firm. Secrecy is a core Clinton value, after all … except for secrecy from the hackers who’ve undoubtedly been intercepting her e-mail on her private server for years.
But wait. Via Gabe Malor, there’s more weirdness. WaPo’s splashy piece last week about the FBI seizing Hillary’s (now supposedly blank) server noted that they took it from a “third party data center” in New Jersey. It’s not precisely clear how long it had been there, but the article implies that it was moved sometime in 2013, when Platte River began maintaining the server for her. Does that mean the Daily Mail piece is wrong and that Hillary’s server was never stored in that retrofitted bathroom in Denver? If Platte River is a small regional company, why are they using a third-party data center in Jersey for Hillary’s business? Are there actually two servers, one the old one that Hillary used as Secretary of State that’s now been wiped and the other the new Platte River Network server that may be housing an archive of her old data? If so, have the feds seized the latter? Most importantly, what motivated Hillary to farm her business out to Platte River in 2013, after she’d stepped down at State? If secrecy was the name of the game, the obvious thing to do was to keep the server on the premises or in some other secret location and not involve third parties. You would think she’d feel more comfortable doing that after she left State since at that point she knew there’d be no more classified information being shared on it, yet that’s the moment when she decided to get rid of it. Presumably that has to do with her fearing that executive privilege would no longer shield her communications from congressional Republican eyes once she’d left the administration, but you’d need a lawyer to confirm that. What’s going on here?
I think the case started back in 2008 in Denver.
Since he's a Saudi national and Hillary was US Sec of State in those years she was likely very aware of the case and the Denver area Democrats in the period 2009-2013.
THIS IS TRULY BIZARRE (even for the bizarro Clintons). Just in case you been wondering about your safety and security in the hands of the buck-raking Clintons.
Baffled by why Secy of State Hillary decided to hire Colorado’s little-known Platte River Networks, some cite David DeCamillis, Platte’s VP of sales and marketing’s prominent Democrat ties.
Platte River Networks was not equipped to work for Secy of state Hilary Clinton...they were based out of a loft, not very high security, didn’t even have an alarm (much less ntl security clearance)....w/ its servers in the bathroom.
DeCamillis was once sued for fraud when he worked for now-jailed Lou Pearlman of the Backstreet Boys and NSync –
The obese “Big Poppa Pearlman” was accused of making sexual advances to the young boys and of stiffing them on wages. Pearlman was jailed for running a Ponzi-—taking millions from investors for non-existent investments.
Perhaps Hillary had a trusted collaborator at Platte-—helping w/ the buck-raking......b/c who would believe a server in the bathroom?
Turki was from one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia and apparently Anwar al Awlaki / Aulaqi tapes were sold out of his Denver mosque...
Money and foreign policy issues- this had to be right up Hillary’s alley.
"...confirmed the servers were in a bathroom closet."
This is more proof Obama has achieved his goal of turning the U.S. into just one more Third-World-Country.
The problem is not because they’re a “Mom and Pop” operation
About the time Hillary gave this company the job in June 2013, there was talk of Colorado’s Hickenlooper running as Hillary’s VP.
For what it’s worth:
I think the company, when founded, operated out of a small loft with server racks in the bathroom years before Clinton became a client. Her server was not in Colorado. It went to New Jersey. But this story becomes curiouser by the post.
So was Russia spying on Hillary in the bathroom?
My mistake... it wasn’t out of his mosque it was out of his publishing house:
Clearly this Local Yocal IT bunch was picked because no one would think to look there, except the PRC who probably really ran the whole operation on the klintoon’s behalf.
If this thing keeps growing like a snowball rolling down hill, hitlery may slip away in exile.
A story about servers in the bathroom and no potty pictures, I’m disappointed.
Now, how can I scrub that disgusting thought from my mind?
Mom and Pop my ass. These people are big democrat supporters and donors. They rent or acquire apartments I’m guessing to skirt expense and taxes on infrastructure.
It doesn’t matter. They had no clearance, her lawyer who kept the thumb drives had no clearance. She and all involved need to be prosecuted to the max the same as they would some poor private or lieutenant who might compromise highly classified material and lie/attempt to cover it up.
The Daily Mail, an English paper, did an actual reporting job on this. They found ex-employees and got the story. (The company didn’t even have an alarm system in place, did business in a loft, but now after a few years “helping” Hillary they’re expanding into a nice new office with a lot more employees?...Hmmm)
It’d be nice if the mainstream media would hire some real reporters again, no?
But instead they convinced Sheryl Attkisson to go elsewhere, one of the few honest reporters they still had.
Not a pretty picture. And thank you Daily Mail.
Ask HIllary! She’s good at scrubbing.
Well played, well played indeed!
This is really why the Clinton’s are untouchables. Their rabbit holes just go deeper and have no end.
Look for people who will say their small size, obscurity and weird setup is exactly why they were picked, nobody would evr figure they were handling SOS data.
All spin.
Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie.
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