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Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Documents recently obtained by the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch show that in December 2010, then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff were having difficulty communicating with State Department officials by e-mail because spam filters were blocking their messages. To fix the problem, State Department IT turned the filters off -- potentially exposing State's employees to phishing attacks and other malicious e-mails. The mail problems prompted Clinton Chief of Staff Huma Abedin to suggest to Clinton (PDF), "We should talk about putting you on State e-mail or releasing your e-mail address to the department so you are not going to spam." Clinton replied, "Let's get [a] separate address or device but I don't want any risk of the personal [e-mail] being accessible." The mail filter system -- Trend Micro's ScanMail for Exchange 8 -- was apparently causing some messages from Clinton's private server (Clintonemail.com) to not be delivered (PDF). Some were "bounced;" others were accepted by the server but were quarantined and never delivered to the recipient. According to the e-mail thread published yesterday by Judicial Watch, State's IT team turned off both spam and antivirus filters on two "bridgehead" mail relay servers while waiting for a fix from Trend Micro. There was some doubt about whether Trend Micro would address the issue before State performed an upgrade to the latest version of the mail filtering software. A State Department contractor support tech confirmed that two filters needed to be shut off in order to temporarily fix the problem -- a measure that State's IT team took with some trepidation, because the filters had "blocked malicious content in the recent past." It's not clear from the thread that the issue was ever satisfactorily resolved, either with SMEX 8 or SMEX 10.
Incompetence at State IT is, IIRC, the reason Colin Powell gave for why he set up his own email server.
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Actually the point being made is dead on. At best she did not comply with regulations. Seeing as it took months for those that wrote them to figure that out, you can't blame her for not knowing. That's how compliance regulations work. If your out of compliance they tell you to fix it, then they comeback 6 months later. Nothing done was criminal in nature by itself. Know if she did it as part of another criminal act, say to falsify expenses, it could be. Anyone that thinks Clinton would be dumb enough to do anything illegal over email has not followed her career. She is crafty too a fault at times.
- telling her staff to remove classified markings from documents and send them this private email system
See, here you're just making shit up by ignoring the context. The details are well known; the secure system was down, they couldn't get it to work, they needed the documents, and it was their discretion what was more important. There is no actual issue or problem. That's the only example. Everything else is stuff that becomes classified after the fact, because it related to her movements. But it her discretion to protect or reveal her travel plans as necessary for her travel and work to be accomplished. That is just basic stuff.