Today on ABC's This Week, Jonathan Karl reported that "Platte River Networks, the Colorado company which set up (Hillary) Clinton's servers, told ABC News that it's highly likely that a full backup of the server was made, meaning those thousands of emails she deleted may still exist."
This from all appearances huge development has only drawn the interest of several center-right blogs and outlets, a few of which include Twitchy, Breitbart, and the Daily Caller. The establishment press to this point appears determined to ignore it. Can anyone imagine a similar level of disinterest in a highly significant story affecting a Republican or conservative presidential candidate — or, for that matter, the press standing by without pushback if the candidate exhibited the level of mocking, defiant arrogance Mrs. Clinton has consistently shown?
Viewers should listen closely to Karl's tone of voice as he says the word "joked" during this opening sentence if the video which follows:
Out in Iowa this weekend, Hillary Clinton joked about the thousands of emails she deleted from her time as Secretary of State.
It seems that Karl is having a hard time believing that Mrs. Clinton is still pretending that she is not involved in a serious matter. But at least publicly, she's holding to that posture with her characteristic condescension:
HILLARY CLINTON: I recently launched a Snapchat account ... I love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves.
Here is the full segment; Karl's report begins at the 0:26 mark:
Neither the New York Times nor the Associated Press have yet considered the news delivered by Karl worthy of relaying. A search on "Platte" at the AP's main national site returns no mention of the company whatsoever. An August 13 story at the wire service's "Big Story" site only notes that "A lawyer for Platte River Networks, a Colorado-based technology services company that began managing the Clinton server in 2013, said the server was provided to the FBI on Wednesday."
The last story at the Times was on Saturday, and only noted the following:
In a letter made public on Wednesday, David Kendall, Mrs. Clinton’s lawyer, said he had handed over to the Justice Department a thumb drive containing the 30,000 emails that had been given to the State Department. He also said the company that had handled Mrs. Clinton’s personal account had given the Justice Department the server Mrs. Clinton used to operate it. The company, Platte River Networks, had been in possession of the server since 2013.
Kendall's handover of the emails in digital format may be at least as significant as what Karl reported. As I noted in NewsBusters posts in May and June, respectively, digital versions of the emails have the potential to reveal far more than the paper output previously provided:
(May 21)
A person with IT experience reminded me today in an email that digital copies of emails contain far more than To, From, Subject, and text. Because Mrs. Clinton has submitted paper:
"Investigators will not get the background "electronic fingerprint," which is not displayed to either the writer or the recipient. This can include (the) originating IP address (as opposed to the email address itself), the server it was sent from, timing information that cannot be easily manipulated (as opposed to the header, which is easy to type or alter in paper format), and whether or not there was an attachment at some point in a multi-level conversation. By handing them over in print, she destroys the data integrity."
(June 29, concerning data security and encryption)
Specifically (again from my experienced source — Ed.):
"...while personal servers can use more sophisticated encryption than government servers, such high-level encryption is border-line illegal and often exploited by terrorist organizations to keep governments out. The encryption tech available is far more sophisticated than most hackers, but the government regulates what is publicly available because they don't want people employing tech they can't crack. So, if Hillary went to the trouble to acquire this questionable encryption, what was she worried about hiding?"
Or was she so nonchalant that she didn't bother with any encryption at all? ... Digital files containing the emails would likely have answered most if not all of the concerns my source raised.
Despite Mrs. Clinton's ridicule, the matter is still developing — and, as Andrew McCarthy at National Review has observed, she is "learning that federal court is not the mainstream media."
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
