Posted on 03/18/2015 8:55:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In my column on the plea agreement the Obama Justice Department allowed David Petreaus to enter after it was discovered that he mishandled classified information, I noted that he had been required to sign a separation agreement when he left the CIA. It is called a “Security Exit Form” and is obviously the CIA version of the State Department departure form described in Jim’s post (and linked in Shannen’s column) that Secretary Clinton should have signed upon leaving government service.
The prosecutors’ outline of the evidence against Petraeus includes the following (at pages 11-12, paragraph 27):
[O]n or about November 26, 2012, defendant DAVID HOWELL PETRAEUS executed … a Security Exit Form. The Security Exit Form included seven provisions regarding his continuing duty to protect classified information from disclosure. Among other things, by signing the Security Exit Form, DAVID HOWELL PETRAEUS adopted the following provision: “I give my assurance that there is no classified material in my possession, custody, or control at this time.”
Petraeus was also required to sign at least three other forms dealing with his obligations not to retain government records and to keep secret information secret.
The Secretary of State deals with mounds upon mounds of classified information – maybe not as much as the CIA director, but close, and equally at the most highly protected levels of classification.
Some questions arise:
In light of the care that was obviously taken to ensure that General Petraeus went through a thorough departure process and was made to sign all the necessary forms and acknowledgments, why was Secretary Clinton not put through a similar process? … Or was she?
If it was not routine for a departing Secretary of State to go through a thorough exit process, shouldn’t the State Department have been able to tell us that a week ago? Why did the Department feel the need to search through its records for several days? Because it knows that Mrs. Clinton should have signed the departure form?
What about Mrs. Clinton’s top advisers, Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and Philippe Reines – some or all of whom reportedly had private email addresses on the Clinton email server system? Were they made to sign departure forms when they left the State Department?
In reading some news stories she was supposed to but didn’t ...
Easy.
The wench can’t read.
Some people are more equal than others!
It was too complicated. She’s already admitted that she can’t handle carrying two Blackberry/cellphones...way over her head. So just signing such a form? Nope, just too complicated.
No one expects a Clinton to follow the law.
Some people are more equal than others!
Of course she signed it.
It was “lost” in order that she not be prosecuted.
What difference could it possibly make at this time, anyhoo?
No controlling legal authority...
She knew exactly what she was doing and only a lib will believe otherwise.
When I retired from the military I was required to sign a non-disclosure statement that said I would not reveal any classified information.
Didn’t I just hear that Patraeus is advising Barry’s administration on something or other? Why?
I actually believe that Clinton did not sign the contract - but she did so knowingly. She was purposefully keeping herself out of a legal tangle.
They need to make it a felony to not sign the thing for starters.
Of course she signed it.
Yep! No one said she didn’t sign it. It was only reported the form was not found in her personnel file. Nor were they found in former Sec of State files.
Most likely those forms are stored together elsewhere.(like archive office). Most likely they were removed.
That's gotta be it. According to the article, Petraeus was required to sign four separation documents in total. In Hillary's mind, that would require four different pens!
I would ask any reasonable person, who in the world carries around four pens at once? So give the old gal a break.
Petraeus was a multi-task orientated guy. I’m not sure Hillary would even say that she was a single-task person. She’d probably respond to any problem with: “call the foundation”.
Because the State Department is a train wreck. No one even tries to enforce regulations there anymore, not even the IG.
I’m convinced now, Evita is dumb as dirt.
How else could someone mishandle EVERY SINGLE THING they touch?
Rules and forms are for the little people.
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