Posted on 03/13/2015 12:14:44 PM PDT by maggief
Hillary Clintons explanation for her use of a personal email account while she served as secretary of state suffered another blow Friday as the State Department disclosed that the email accounts of senior department officials were not automatically archived until last month.
Clinton said at a news conference Tuesday that she believed the vast majority of work-related emails she sent or received from her private account were preserved because she was in correspondence with other officials using .gov accounts.
However, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters archiving of the work email boxes of senior State Department officials besides the secretary did not begin until February of this year. She previously said Secretary of State John Kerry uses an official account and his emails have been archived since he succeeded Clinton.
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Good catch. Either way, I’m not sure what the penalty would be for not signing a form, mandatory or optional. I know it would involve fines and potential jail time for signing and breaking the agreement. I can’t locate anything on not signing the form to begin with.
Now I'm wondering if all of this OF-109 issue was an intentional misdirection since it's an "optional" form.
Completely different forms.
I didn't ask if they were the same form. I asked if the wording was the same and it appears, to me at least, that it is.
I've already provided a link to Form SF-312 above. I don't need yours.
(1) Advise personnel of the adverse affects to the national security that could result from unauthorized disclosure and of their personal and legal responsibility to protect classified information within their knowledge, possession, or control;
(2) Indoctrinate personnel in the principles, criteria, and procedures of proper classification management, to include the classification, downgrading, declassification, marking, control and accountability, storage, destruction, and transmission of classified information and material;
(3) Familiarize personnel with procedures for challenging classification decisions believed to be improper;
(4) Familiarize personnel with the security requirements of their particular assignment;
(5) Familiarize personnel with system security standards for use of automated information systems;
(6) Advise personnel of the strict prohibition against discussing classified information over an unsecure telephone or in any other manner that permits interception by unauthorized persons;
(7) Inform personnel of the penalties for violation or disregard of the provisions of this regulation; and
(8) Instruct personnel that individuals having knowledge, possession, or control of classified information must determine, before disseminating such information, that the prospective recipient has been cleared for access by competent authority; needs the information in order to perform his or her official duties; and can properly protect (or store) the information.
They are not the same. They do both overlap regarding references to some of the same sections/titles of US Code, but they do not reference the same sections entirely. For example, the OF-109 references several sections of Title 42 of the US Code, and the SF-312 does not reference Title 42 at all.
The SF-312 is used for all agencies specifically regarding classified information (SF-312), while the OF-109 is specific to the Department of State regarding both classified and administratively controlled documents. Also, if you note paragraph 8 on the 312, it specifically states "during the time I am granted access to classified information, and at all times thereafter." which implies the form is used upon being granted access to classified information (prior to, or during employment), while the SF-109 is a separation agreement.
Bottom line is yes, they are similar, but they are not the same.
That's why I emphasized it in italics.
Never mind.
There is no mention of, or wording for, “administratively-controlled documents” in the SF-312. It pertains strictly to classified information. They are not the same thing.
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