The growing scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecured server now involves a little known Denver company that she used for the system. Clinton has repeatedly dismissed concerns about her decision not to use the secure State Department system by saying that she had her own security team and that the server was always protected. Now there is a media report that Clinton actually used a small company with Democratic party ties in Denver which reportedly kept its server in a bathroom closet in a loft apartment. The report raises again questions of the security used for the system while there are also questions being raised about Clinton lawyers lacking clearances to deal with possibly classified material in deleting thousands of messages and holding copies of messages. There has not been a response printed to the story thus far and the position of the Clinton campaign (including challenging the accuracy of the story) is unknown at this time.
The company Platte River Networks is described as a “mom and pop” operation by former employees.
Founded in 2002 by entrepreneurs Treve Suazo, Brent Allshouse and Tom Welch, Platte River Networks operated out of a 1,858 square feet loft apartment in downtown Denver until earlier year. The building hardly sounds secure from foreign intelligence penetration.
These concerns arise with the disclosure of hundreds of emails flagged as possibly classified, including at least two at one of the highest levels.
Hey, Dust Bunny! I know spaghetti colander. He’s a friend of mine!
Hillary Rodham is no spaghetti colander!
She’s more like a potato masher, a garlic press, or a walnut cracker. She must be excellent on the farm making steers out of bulls with her castrator..
I dont understand what the “growing scandal” is. Her email was on a private server, so what? Governors have purposly deleted email and the CIA shredded evidence after a judge asked for it and NOTHING was done. Colin Powell said he did the same thing, and NO ONE CARES.
This just seems like the same old “benghazi” smoke screen by the right (looking at you Mr Turley) to throw a bunch of slime against a wall and see what sticks.
“The PHYSICAL location of a server is MEANINGLESS, except to those with an agenda. To bother writing about it shows that the author is totally clueless, technologically”
I beg to differ. The physical location of her server shows how Hillary Clinton thinks she’s above the law. That server should have been at the state dept, under the protection of professionals.
Don’t you think anyone could’ve broken into that locked bathroom and stolen that server? That server isn’t 6 ft high and weigh a thousand pounds.
“The PHYSICAL location of a server is MEANINGLESS”
Yes, because stealing the secret data on it can only be done remotely, not by just breaking through the bathroom door and walking away with the server itself, amiright?
CCPGI
Oscar Pastorius had a server in his bathroom but he shot it three times just to be safe.
ewm: Until you know the difference between using a private email account and having your own server, you should unplug your computer.
@EconIsEasy . . . Boom! 🙂
The PHYSICAL location of a server is MEANINGLESS, except to those with an agenda. To bother writing about it shows that the author is totally clueless, technologically
The fact that Clinton acquired a ‘Private Server’, shows her intent.
Did she really think having a Secret Service officer standing in front of the locked john door, would keep virtual files secure?
I can sit in a mall with my Cellebrite UFed Unit and virtually extract every persons digital footprint from their easy to hack Iphone and be able to hack into their entire life. Blackberry is the hardest phone to hack into but it is possible. And it takes a warrant to do that. I’m not buying her private server was secure. She would have to have a 24hr 7 day a week professional security professional monitoring her server and that person would have to have A1 top secret status issued by the government to be able to do that.
Chief – Key codes to launch the nukes. Bill misplaced them at some parties. Hillary might leave them in the powder room. Remember the 900 FBI files Hillary had in Billy’s White House?
Grabs makeup, lipstick, puts on jewelry, but forgets nuke codes. What is a good alibi for this?
EWM, maybe Colin Powell sent some emails through a private account, but not all of them. And I am sure his server was located in a bathroom. However, Hillary did fire an ambassador for sending out private emails from a server in his private bathroom in an embassy.
“If you didn’t have a problem with Colin Powell using a private email, what’s your problem with Hilary using one? I’ve never heard one complaint about the republican using one. You should all stfu.”
News flash . . . Colin Powell didn’t have a ‘Private Server’ . . . So stfu!
Secret stuff in the dot.gov is overrated anyway.
I mean, the IRS lets it all hang out, ripe for the picking.
Why not Hillary?
The lies and obfuscations by Hillary are beyond ridiculous. Anyone with a minimal understanding of computers and the internet knows that her “server” was about as non porous as a spaghetti colander.
Young people, especially, are not buying the fairy tale that she is spinning. They know and understand the technology.
All she had to do was to follow the rules and the laws that other Government employees are required to follow. That she didn’t and considers herself ABOVE the law is troubling on several levels. First that she doesn’t think that the laws and rules apply to her……we’ve already seen how that mindset has created a lawless Presidency in the Obama Administration and in the President himself. Second. WHAT was she trying to conceal from oversight and scrutiny? You don’t go to the extremes that she did without some ulterior motive.
If it is Hillary and Trump as the choices (God forbid) I will have to vote for Trump. At least we know what and who he is. How could a Trump Presidency be any WORSE that what we have now or worse than a Queen Hillary reign? It CAN’T and at least a Trump Presidency will be entertaining.
Dust Bunny Queen
One thing about a Trump presidency would be his posture on China.
Does anyone else remember Bernie Schwarz giving missle guidance systems to China?
Charlie Trie?
Al Gore Buddhist temple ice tea?
How many favors do the Clintons owe for the clinton library and massage parlor and the clinton crime initiative?
“considering nothing in it was deemed classified at the time”
Gosh, when did you complete the analysis?
“…even if there were classified material in it, it’s not the location of the server that’s relevant, it’s that there was classified material in it!”
I agree, the security issues are meaningless. I mean, so what if it could have been easily hacked?
At this point, what difference does it make if the SoS of the USA was using a server for secret stuff even though that was against the rules and the guy next door could easily breach her email?
The location of the server is both metaphorical and literal. It makes for good visuals in the mind. For me, it conjures up a drug dealer, in the bathroom, flushing the evidence as cops execute a search warrant. Visualizing is a useful technique for helping understand on a deeper level.
Security in a bathroom vs SuperNap Data Center in Las Vegas. It’s massive. The security guards pack guns, so don’t get any ideas.
I’d just as soon vote for Spinelli than Clinton, but I think the depth to which the private server’s location is being scrutinized, considering nothing in it was deemed classified at the time, is a bit like analyzing why Ms. Lewinsky was wearing a blue dress as opposed to another color. And even if there were classified material in it, it’s not the location of the server that’s relevant, it’s that there was classified material in it! Sheesh.
Get a grip, Hawks!
” it’s not the location of the server that’s relevant, it’s that there was classified material in it! Sheesh.”
The location of the server might raise reasonable concerns and questions concerning the professionalism of those who implemented and maintained the server.
“With Bill, it’s biting his lip.”
When he bites someone else’s lip, you’d better put ice on it.
Reading people for a living, I have always been amazed at how people can not read the Clinton’s. Their mannerisms, voice inflections, body language tell you everything you need to know. The biggest tells w/ Hillary are her mocking sing/song voice and that PHONY laugh. With Bill, it’s biting his lip.
And whoever said Hillary doesn’t promote small business?
I personally run a server in my doghouse. No one can get past Fido.
The fur tends to clog up the CPU fan at times, but it’s always something.
If that server had only been in Vince Foster’s office it would be splattered all over Ft Marcy park after it was carried over there in a rug.