Key Security Features Were Temporarily Disabled on Clinton’s Email Server

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. That copy of the email was publicly cited last month in a blistering audit by the State Department’s inspector general that concluded Clinton and her team ignored clear internal guidance that her email setup violated federal standards and could have left sensitive material vulnerable to hackers.

Pagliano had previously struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department in exchange for his cooperation with the FBI’s security investigation into Clinton’s email server, which is separate from this litigation. One employee said that it “should trump all other activities”, according to the emails.

Newly released emails show State Department IT staffers appear to have 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. They were trying urgently to resolve delivery problems with emails sent from Clinton’s private server.

She knew that all emails transmitted via her private server would evade the State Department’s email archiving infrastructure, which was created to make the messages available to Freedom of Information Act requests.

Clinton has maintained all along that her communications have never been compromised.

Pagliano, who was hired by the State Department after a stint as IT director for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and was paid separately by the Clintons to perform work on the server, located at their home in Chappaqua, New York.

“Was the Clintonemail.com system created for Secretary Clinton to use during her tenure as Secretary of State for government business?”

The phishing attack was an attempt to infect Clinton’s private email server and transmit her emails to at least three servers overseas, including one in Russian Federation.

Just weeks after the technical problem with Clinton’s server, Bryan Pagliano sent emails saying he needed to shut down her server because someone was attempting to hack it.

“On the advice of counsel, I will decline to answer your question in reliance on my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution”, Pagliano said 128 times over 80 minutes in response to a series of questions by a Judicial Watch lawyer. A transcript released Thursday shows Pagliano repeatedly responded to detailed questions by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as he did a year ago before a congressional committee. Agents recently interviewed several of Clinton’s top aides, including Abedin. “We can’t hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies”.