Security Was Disabled on Clinton Emails

According to emails released Wednesday, the State Department temporarily disabled security features on its computer network in December 2010 in response to a serious technical problem affecting Hillary Clinton’s private email server. State Department staffers allegedly disabled software that was intended to block so-called phishing emails, which are capable of giving computers viruses. They were trying to resolve problems with emails not getting delivered properly from the private server. After they initially turned off some of the security features, State Department official Thomas W. Lawrence said in an email: “We view this as a Band-Aid and fear it’s not 100 percent fully effective.”