Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumThe conclusion of the OIG report.
CONCLUSION
Longstanding, systemic weaknesses related to electronic records and communications have existed within the Office of the Secretary that go well beyond the tenure of any one Secretary of State. OIG recognizes that technology and Department policy have evolved considerably since Secretary Albrights tenure began in 1997. Nevertheless, the Department generally and the Office of the Secretary in particular have been slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership. OIG expects that its recommendations will move the Department steps closer to meaningfully addressing these risks.
Recommendations of the OIG report.
RECOMMENDATIONS
To ensure compliance with Federal and Department requirements regarding records preservation and use of non-Departmental systems, OIG has issued the following recommendations to the Bureau of Administration, the Office of the Secretary, the Bureau of Information Resources Management, the Bureau of Human Resources, and the Departments Transparency Coordinator. Their complete responses can be found in Appendix B. The Department also provided technical comments that OIG incorporated as appropriate into this report.
There are 8 recommendations issued to the State Department by OIG.
State Department management responded to each recommendation.
The OIG replied in each case:
OIG Reply: OIG considers the recommendation resolved.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's name is mentioned nowhere in conclusions, recommendations, responses, replies.
Case closed.
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LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)keep pumping out the crap," says the rightwing spin machine!
Benghazi committee, Judicial Watch, the notion 'we' have that everyone who works in the US government has to be an Obama-appointed Democrat who loves Hillary - "they' know what they're doing and 'we' take the bait.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Thank you, yallerdawg~
sarae
(3,284 posts)riversedge
(70,205 posts)improvements within State.
My feeling he will try to implement them but getting money from Congress will be the catch.
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)2009
CFR Provision added: "Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system."
Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system.
In the 2014 amendments to the Federal Records Act, Congress added a provision prohibiting agency employees from creating or sending a record using a non-official electronic messaging account unless they copy their official electronic messaging account in the original creation or transmission of the record or forward a complete copy of the record to their official electronic messaging account within 20 days. Shortly before the enactment of the 2014 amendments, the Department issued an interim directive with similar requirements38 and subsequently updated the FAM in October 2015 as follows:
Under the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, employees are prohibited from creating or sending a record using a non-official email account unless the employee (1) copies the employees official email account in the original creation or transmission, or (2) forwards a complete copy of record (including any attachments) to the employees official email account not later than 20 days after the original creation or transmission .The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has advised that personal accounts should only be used in exceptional circumstances. Therefore, Department employees are discouraged from using private email accounts (e.g., Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, etc.) for official business. However, in those very limited circumstances when it becomes necessary to do so, the email messages covering official business sent from or received in a personal account must be captured and managed in a Department email system in a manner described above in accordance with the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014. If an employee has any emails (regardless of age) on his or her private email account(s) that have not already been forwarded to the employees official email account, then such emails need to be forwarded to the employees state.gov account as soon as possible. Employees are reminded that private email accounts should not be used to transmit or receive classified information.
The above in bold was being followed by Clinton before this even went into effect.
Limited Ability To Retrieve Email Records: Even when emails are printed and filed, they are generally not inventoried or indexed and are therefore difficult to retrieve. As an illustration, almost 3,000 boxes, each filled with hundreds of pages of documents, would have to be reviewed manually, on a page-by-page basis, in order to identify and review all printed and filed emails from the Office of the Secretary since 1997. To help alleviate this problem, the Office of the Secretary could have adopted an electronic email management system in 2009 with the introduction of SMART. SMART allows users to designate specific emails sent or received through the Departments email system as record emails; other SMART users can search for and access record emails, depending on the access controls set by the individual who originally saved the email. However, prior OIG reports have repeatedly found that Department employees enter relatively few of their emails into the SMART system and that compliance varies greatly across bureaus, in part because of perceptions by Department employees that SMART is not intuitive, is difficult to use, and has some technical problems.
To complement the official State Department computer in my office, I installed a laptop computer on a private line. My personal email account on the laptop allowed me direct access to anyone online. I started shooting emails to my principal assistants, to individual ambassadors, and increasingly to my foreign-minister colleagues .
OIG identified emails sent from and received by Secretary Powells personal account in selected records associated with Secretary Powell. During his interview with OIG, Secretary Powell stated that he accessed the email account via his personal laptop computer in his office, while traveling, and at his residence, but not through a mobile device. His representative advised the Department that Secretary Powell did not retain those emails or make printed copies. Secretary Powell also stated that neither he nor his representatives took any specific measures to preserve Federal records in his email account. Secretary Powells representative told OIG that she asked Department staff responsible for recordkeeping whether they needed to do anything to preserve the Secretarys emails prior to his departure, though she could not recall the names or titles of these staff. According to the representative, the Department staff responded that the Secretarys emails would be captured on Department servers because the Secretary had emailed other Department employees.
Loki
(3,825 posts)Probably never. The cost will never pass muster with any republican. Most people have absolutely no idea what the standards are for the National Archives and how our government stores its records. I only have to go to my son who works for a contractor for the DHS in the Immigration and Naturalization department. They store over 25 million files at the facility where he works, paper files and run on a computer system that hasn't been upgraded in years. When I found out yesterday listening to Rachel that our Nuclear Arsenal system is run on computers from the last ice age with floppy discs, it made me angry. We are this close to being a non-functional government if we can't even keep up to date on computer systems that can work in this ever changing data environment. My home computer is probably safer and more secure than our government. Oh, and I love the fallacy that Condi Rice never used email. How in the hell did she communicate with State, smoke signals?
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)still_one
(92,189 posts)if this was posted outside the Hillary group, it would devolve into another thread whose only purpose was to bash and degrade Hillary, instead of discussing the mistake, error in judgement, whatever. That won't happen
Cha
(297,196 posts)Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)I have been increasingly disturbed by the vitriol coming from Sanders supporters and Sanders himself. Also, I see posts that no way should have remained and others that should not have been deleted which use rightwing hates sites...no logic. I am out of GDP now...a little over a week until this ends...not feeding these people anymore...let them debate each other...Bernie has behaved so badly. I liked him in the beginning...liked both candidates but now I despise him.