Posted on 12/10/2017 7:58:59 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
The Daily Caller has exclusively confirmed that Abedin, a top aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed but failed to honor an official "separation agreement," which required her to surrender all work-related documents when she left office. That aide, Huma Abedin, maintained control of emails she sent and received through a personal email account hosted on Clinton’s private email server for nearly two-and-a-half years after she left the agency in Feb. 2013. In signing the form — called the OF-109 — but failing to turn over State Department records, Abedin may have opened herself up to criminal charges.
"I have surrendered to responsible officials all classified or administratively controlled documents and material with which I was charged or which I had in my possession, "reads Abedin's signed OF-109, which The Daily Caller obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed on its behalf by the watchdog group Cause of Action.
"I am not retaining in my possession, custody, or control, documents or material containing classified or administratively controlled information furnished to me during the course of such employment or developed as a consequence thereof," the form reads.
I have surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents, and papers relating to the official business of the Government acquired by me while in the employ of the Department."
In signing the form, outgoing employees acknowledge that they have been advised that Section 1001 of Title 18, United States Code, provides criminal penalties for knowingly and willfully falsifying or concealing material fact in a statement or document submitted to any department or agency of the United States Government.
It was recently reported that the FBI has expanded its investigation of Clinton's home-brew email system. The agency is now looking at whether materially false statements were given to federal agents, Fox News reported on Thursday. It is unclear whether the probe is focusing on Abedin's OF-109. (RELATED: Report: FBI Investigating Whether ˜Materially False™ Statements Given In Hillary Email Probe)
Abedin's attorney, former State Department official Miguel Rodriguez, did not immediately respond to TheDC's request for comment. Nor did the Clinton campaign. Abedin and other Clinton aides, including Cheryl Mills and Philippe Reines, were ordered by a federal judge this summer to turn over all of the work-related emails they sent and received while in office.
TheDC also sued for Mills' and Reines' OF-109 forms, as well as for Clinton's.
Abedin, who used the email address huma@clintonemail.com, returned 6,714 emails in her possession in September. Mills and Reines, who used Yahoo and Google accounts, respectively, turned their emails over to the State Department in June. Clinton gave hers to the agency last December.
The records that the State Department provided to TheDC do not make it entirely clear if either Mills or Reines signed the OF-109.
An internal State Department memo included in the FOIA release states that the agency has both an OF-109 and SF-312 for Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin. But while one of the documents provided to TheDC is an OF-109 with Mills' name typed on it, it does not bear her signature. Reines was not serving in the secretary's bureau when he stopped working at the State Department. His separation documents may be found elsewhere, the memo states.
A State Department official could neither explain the discrepancy nor confirm that Mills did not sign the agreement. If she did sign the form, she would come under the same scrutiny as Abedin. If she did not, that would raise questions over how and why the State Department allowed her to avoid such a routine measure.
State Department whistleblowers told TheDC in March that rank-and-file agency employees are required to sign the form. Failure to do so could result in the agency withholding benefits and conducting investigations into why the employees declined to sign the form, a whistle-blower said. (RELATED: Whistle-Blower: State Department Employees Who Don't Sign Separation Agreement Face Dire Consequences)
As for Clinton, a memo provided in the FOIA release shows that she did not sign an OF-109. While the State Department has already stated that it had no record of Clinton having signed the document, the memo provides the agency's rationale for why she didnt.
Departing secretaries of state do not complete an OF-109 due to their continued need for a security clearance after their resignation, the memo reads. On March 17, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the agency could find no record of Clinton having signed the OF-109. "I think we're fairly certain that she did not, we dont have record of it," Psaki said then.
The State Department declined to specifically address the significance of Abedin's signing the OF-109. “The State Department has undertaken great efforts to retrieve records from some individuals, including Huma Abedin. The State Department asked her to send any records in her possession and we're doing due diligence to make sure that we're retrieving all of them, an official told TheDC.
Technically breaking the law because they are discussing classified schedules. For her own schedule, the Secretary would be her own originating authority. She is either too dishonest or too stupid to do the job she is running for, or any other position of responsibility.
What I am waiting for is the handling of TS/SCI data to be described. In those cases she and her staff took other departments' data that was delivered, properly marked, to State. At some point, through a conspiracy of multiple people, it was taken out of its secure facility, stripped of its markings, reproduced on unclassified devices, sent over an unsecure circuit, to Clinton's unsecure server.
Multiple conscious acts of a criminal nature.
<><> Hillary and staff's handling of TS/SCI data yet to be described....
<><> they took other departments data, delivered, properly marked, to State.
<><> through a conspiracy of multiple people,
<><> it was taken out of its secure facility,
<><> stripped of its markings,
<><> reproduced on unclassified devices,
<><> sent over an unsecure circuit, to Clinton's unsecure server.
There is evidence none of these people signed the official State Dept exit form.........b/c that would have cutoff access to State Dept info......info the Clintons and their cronies rely on to cash-in.
Note Brian Pagliano---Hillary's personal IT--- left her employ then surfaced on the public payroll as a State Dept contractor.
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Taxpayers demand to know who else among the Clinton cronies are cashing US govt paychecks It's an old bureaucratic trick for a politician to hand-pick people and put them on the public payroll long after you think they're gone......perhaps as State Dept "contractors."
<><> Hillary?
<><> Bill Clinton?
<><> Sid Blumenthal?
<><> Huma Abedin,
<><> Huma's husband?
<><> Cheryl Mills?
<><> Cheryl mills' live-in David Domenici?
<><> Chelsea Clinton?
<><> Chelsea's husband?
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CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Demand Congress send you all available information on individuals connected to Hillary still cashing US govt paychecks. In light of the $6 billion missing from the contractor fund when Hillary exited, taxpayers demand to know who is listed as a State Dept contractor.
Huma Abedin — Clinton's top deputy — testified she made “a regular practice” of forwarding “hundreds and thousands” of Clinton messages to her perv husband, “some of which contain classified information.
But Comey blithely testified to Congress that Abedin had done this so that the disgraced former congressman could print them out for Hillary.
This is so blatantly untrue----doesnt the trillion dollar US govt have copying machines? And office staff to do this?
Did it ever occur to Comey that Huma and her husband wire-transferred the classified intel out of the country---to America's enemies?
Huma has global Muslim contacts --- people who'd pay large sums for US intel.
“I am terrified of the last play these deep state rat and pubbie operatives have in their playbook, the assassination of our president.”
I’ve been aware of that possibility on some level since June 2015. For some reason, it became primary in my mind over the past weekend - can’t get it out of my head. I don’t know why now, but I’ve been praying for his safety more than usual.
In the end, I believe God will protect him because he’s been put there for a purpose. I worry, though. The ‘Rats are so evil and their leader from Hell is powerful.
This^^^^^
You’re right. It’s disgusting and unacceptable that they have gotten away with so much for so long.
What a ridiculous point of view you have! I suppose if I comment on radical Islamists and something happens its my fault? We’ve seen domestic violence from the left happening at a quickly increasing rate and severity since Trump became the nominee. I suppose that’s the fault of others who discussed it? Fine for you to bury you head in the sand and not care but not me. If you realistically look at what the left says and does nothing I said should be dismissed but rather seriously talked about and acted upon accordingly.
Hand wring and pearl clutch all you want.
btt
“To: hardspunned If you don’t want to see a thing happen and you aren’t in a position to prevent it, then don’t whine about it on a public web site. It does no good to put the image into others’ minds when you don’t know who is reading and for what purpose”
You are very naïve. Don’t you know that the Deep State has had that on their mind for over a year?
And I doubt if any schemers are reading this thread.
You are exactly right.
I just happen to agree with him/her.
I can assure you I am not naive.
There is no benefit in wallowing in negative energy about something you have no control of/over.
Spare me your lectures in the future. I DON'T doubt that bad people get ideas from the net even FR.
Sorry for the mix up.
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