State Department Disabled Security (anti-spam) Features Blocking Clinton's Private Email

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

State Department Disabled Security Features Blocking Clinton's Private Email

By JUSTIN FISHEL Jun 23, 2016, 2:13 PM ET

Newly released emails show State Department IT staffers temporarily disabled security features on the department’s own email system in order to accommodate Secretary Hillary Clinton’s private email, which the government server was treating as spam.

State Department spokesman John Kirby said that "technicians implemented a series of troubleshooting measures to the Department’s system," but added that the adjustments referenced in the emails are not uncommon and the department has multiple layers of email security protections.

"To be clear –- spam filters were not permanently turned off as this was merely a troubleshooting exercise," Kirby said in a statement to ABC News. “The Department has several tools to block spam, only one of which was involved in this troubleshooting exercise.”

The previously unseen emails were released under court order to the conservative legal advocacy group, Judicial Watch, after it sued the State Department for access. The emails had been referenced in last month’s report by the State Department’s inspector general, which concluded Clinton’s use of private email would not have been allowed had she sought approval to use it.

The emails show that, late in 2010, Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin –- who used that same home-brewed server –- was concerned that outgoing emails were not being received. Resolving the issue became a top priority for the department’s technical staff. One employee said that it “should trump all other activities,” according to the emails.

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[jehop61]

1. At this point

No one really cares about this topic. We need to use our energies to defeat Trumpft.

[mercuryblues]

2. I have said

from the get-go. They claimed they did not know Clinton was using a private server, let alone authorized her to use it, yet they were heavily involved in getting it working. How does that work?