Revealed: State Dept Turned Off Security Features on Hillary’s Server

Another batch of Hillary Clinton emails was released to Judicial Watch, a conservative legal advocacy group, which sued the State Department to gain access to public records connected to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s service as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.

Clinton has continually claimed that her illegal server was legal and perfectly protected from hackers, yet this new batch of released emails demonstrates the vulnerabilities that occurred.

In December of 2010, Senior technical official, Ken La Volpe, told his IT employs that getting Clinton’s email security software working was of most importance, “This should trump all other activities.”

On Jan. 9, 2011, a State Department IT staffer was forced to shut down Clinton’s server because he believed “someone was trying to hack us.” Later that day, he wrote, “We were attacked again so I shut (the server) down for a few min.” It was one of several occasions when email access to Clinton’s BlackBerry smartphone was disrupted because her private server was down, according to the documents.

After technical staffers turned off some security features, Lawrence cautioned in an email, “We view this as a Band-Aid and fear it’s not 100 percent fully effective.”

Clinton has repeatedly denied there is any evidence her private email server ever was breached. Her campaign did not immediately provide comment Wednesday.

Again, on Jan. 9, 2011, her server was forced to shut down by a State Department IT staffer “because he believed “someone was trying to hack us.””

Later that day, he wrote, “We were attacked again so I shut (the server) down for a few min.” It was one of several occasions when email access to Clinton’s BlackBerry smartphone was disrupted because her private server was down, according to the documents.

Clinton had received “infected emails” according to the AP reported last year, which were “disguised as speeding tickets from New York”.   The instructions were to print the attached ticket, but upon opening the attachment, the hacker would take over the computer.  So much for the claim of not being breached.

In a blistering audit released last month, the State Department’s inspector general concluded that Clinton and her team ignored clear internal guidance that her email setup broke federal standards and could leave sensitive material vulnerable to hackers. Her aides twice brushed aside concerns, in one case telling technical staff “the matter was not to be discussed further,” the report said.

In a speech on Wednesday, Donald Trump said that Clinton’s email server “was easily hacked by foreign governments.”

Trump cited no new evidence that hackers had successfully breached Clinton’s server, but he said unspecified enemies of the United States were in possession of all her emails.

“So they probably now have a blackmail file over someone who wants to be President of the United States. This fact alone disqualifies her from the presidency,” Trump said. “We can’t hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies.”

The DNC and Hillary have some serious issues if they think somehow all of this will go away. With the multitude of investigations, lawsuits, and the FBI investigation underway, there must be enough probable cause to justify the continued digging into the personal emails.  It certainly has proved, once again, that Hillary is a liar and not a quality candidate for the highest office in the land.

Source: Breitbart