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Giving back A 2003 New Milford High School graduate has donated $50,000 to the Newtown High Technology Club. The founder of Datto Inc., Austin McChord, will also be the club's new advisor.
It wasn’t until August 2015, more than two years after Platte River had taken over administering the Clinton server and four months after Combetta deleted the emails off the server, that anyone realized that cloud-based backups existed. In an email dated August 6, Sam Hickler, Platte River’s VP of operations, wrote: “When we made the purchase, it was under the understanding that we didn’t want to back up to Datto’s data center.”
Datto investigated and discovered that the device Combetta had installed was automatically syncing with Datto’s cloud servers and storing the data there—even though Platte River hadn’t been billed for the service.
Treve Suazo, Platte River’s CEO, replied: “This is a problem. This data should not be stored in the Datto Cloud, but because the backup data exists, we cannot delete it . . . ”
A few days later, Datto’s general counsel, Michael Fass, sent a letter to Platte River attorneys, informing them that Datto planned to disconnect the cloud-based server. Fass said that Datto had been following news reports concerning various investigations into Clinton’s emails and had concerns. “It may be possible that information contained on the Datto device” is “subject to legal retention requirements,” he said. “We are concerned that if no immediate action is taken,” then “information may be improperly deleted.”
The following month Datto received its first written request from the FBI (there was no subpoena).
“We received permission from both Platte River and the Clinton organization to hand over to the FBI information relevant to its investigation including physical equipment from our cloud, which we did,” Datto CEO Austin McChord told me through his attorney.
Datto provided the physical cloud storage equipment as well as individual syslog files and additional logs to the FBI.
The question is: Did Datto maintain the integrity of these cloud-based backups of Clinton’s emails after Platte River asked it to discontinue secure cloud backups?
All McChord would say after consulting his attorney was: “The FBI Report provides that Platte River Networks used Datto to back up the Clinton IT infrastructure. It also states that Platte River Networks used our solution to back up servers that had Mrs. Clinton’s emails on them. The report also indicates that the FBI was able to recover emails that were not previously provided.”
Is that a yes?
“Datto has no direct knowledge to suggest those emails were recovered from the Datto servers.”
How about indirect knowledge?
Datto pointed me back to the FBI report, which stated that the bureau recovered “from additional data sources” 17,448 emails that were sent to and from Clinton’s [email protected] and were not previously provided to the agency. Some might have come from Wikileaks’ hacked email from Podesta’s and Blumenthal’s Gmail accounts. The vast majority, however, might have come from Datto’s backups.
After handing over Datto’s servers and logs that held the Clintons’ emails, McChord says Datto hasn’t heard anything more from the FBI and has no indication that the Bureau had trouble decrypting those files.
But what was in them? Datto isn’t entirely sure. Nonetheless, it’s the missing emails that Clinton sent at the time of the Benghazi attacks that led to the investigation in the first place. The attack occurred during the final months of Clinton’s tenure at the State Department.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: Vasa Croe
I didnt think wiki had all the datas, as we dont have them either.
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
As an aside the only adult who reportedly spent any amount of time with Adam Lanza was the head of the Newtown High School technology club; Richard or Robert Novia (it's 4 am, my memory isn't all here). The guy who also did work for DHS and defense industry companies. He supposedly designed the security system for Sandy Hook Elementary. These kinds of coincidences just seem to happen far too often.
originally posted by: FamCore
a reply to: Vasa Croe
this is an eyebrow-raiser, incredible find VC. This changes some of my thoughts on Wikileaks to a degree (although I've never been too sure how to feel about WikiLks in the first place)
Is the investigation of Clinton's email a done deal, closed book now, or is this even considered new evidence? how does this work exactly?
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
As an aside the only adult who reportedly spent any amount of time with Adam Lanza was the head of the Newtown High School technology club; Richard or Robert Novia (it's 4 am, my memory isn't all here). The guy who also did work for DHS and defense industry companies. He supposedly designed the security system for Sandy Hook Elementary. These kinds of coincidences just seem to happen far too often.
I wonder if Novia and McChord knew eachother....that would be a REALLY interesting breadcrumb trail.
originally posted by: HorizonFall
I really want to see the connection, but it's not quite clear... How are Clinton's emails connected to the Newtown shooting?
originally posted by: HorizonFall
a reply to: UKTruth
Wow... since when does a school tech club get funding from a private company? And wasn't it an elementary school? What could they possibly be teaching the kids that that would even be necessary? That guy's previous work history alone should be cause for concern.
Id say this is a lot more than a thin connection, especially considering how the shooting was quite clearly a false flag... possibly even a victimless psyop to see how big of a lie they can get away with.