Investigators are looking into a Colorado technology company that reportedly handled Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
The FBI visited the Denver offices of Platte River Networks last week, according to a local CBS affiliate.
Platte River Networks helped Clinton manage the personal email network on which she and at least one of her top aides hosted their communications while serving at the State Department.
The FBI is presently leading a probe into the arrangement, which has caused considerable controversy in the early days of Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Bryan Pagliano, a former Clinton aide, maintained the server when it was first established in 2008, according to a report last week from the Washington Post.
His LinkedIn page indicates he worked for Clinton’s presidential campaign for three years, starting in 2006, before migrating with her to the State Department.
Financial disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission confirm Pagliano’s employment with Clinton. He was paid by Clinton’s political action committee, Hill PAC, starting in late 2006.
Pagliano served as a “special advisor” at the State Department starting in 2009, a position he left the same month Clinton stepped down her post in 2013.
In 2012, Pagliano publically advocated for allowing State Department officials to use personal devices for government work.
“If even 10 percent of our workforce volunteers for a [bring your own device] program, we can potentially see millions of dollars in savings,” Pagliano was quoted in the Federal Times as saying.
“For security reasons, no data would be allowed to reside on the phones,” the Federal Times article noted.
Pagliano argued the policy could “free up” IT advisors like himself by reducing the number of government-issued devices they have to manage.
While a judge last week ordered Clinton to provide more details about her email arrangement and the devices that made it possible, the presidential candidate declined to do so when she submitted a sworn declaration Saturday affirming that she had handed over all her work-related emails to the State Department.
