@StateDept Revises Reporting Requirements For All Security Clearance Holders

 

The State Department recently revised the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) for information State Department employees are obligated to report to DS/SI/PSS per an Office of the Director of National Intelligence directive.  The change log says that this was a substantial increase in requirements from the last edition.
Also below is the reporting requirement matrix dated January 21, 2022 and the related stats from Diplomatic Security on its Insider Threat Program for 2019 and 2020.
Via 12 FAM 273  REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL WHO HAVE ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION OR HOLD A SENSITIVE POSITION
12 FAM 273.1  Applicability
(CT:DS-372;   01-21-2022)

The following reporting requirements are applicable to all covered individuals, defined at 12 FAM 271.3 as individuals who perform work for or on behalf of the Department of State and has been granted access to classified information (Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret) or who occupy a sensitive position, for which the adjudicative determination for the security clearance, sensitive position, and/or access to SCI, was rendered by the Department.

12 FAM 273.2  Reportable Actions by Others
(CT:DS-372;   01-21-2022)
a. All covered individuals have an obligation to report activities of other covered individuals that may be of a potential security or counterintelligence concern.  Persons with information they believe may have a bearing on another individual’s eligibility for access to classified information or to hold a sensitive position must report that information.  This includes, but is not limited to:
(1)  An unwillingness to comply with rules and regulations or to cooperate with security requirements;
(2)  Unexplained affluence or excessive indebtedness;
(3)  Alcohol abuse;
(4)  Illegal use or misuse of drugs or drug activity;
(5)  Behavior that may suggest a mental health issue where there is reason to believe it may impact the individual’s ability to protect classified information or other information specifically prohibited by law from disclosure;
(6)  Criminal conduct;
(7)  Any activity that raises doubts as to whether another covered individual’s continued national security eligibility is clearly consistent with the interests of national security; and
(8)  Misuse of U.S. Government property or information systems.
b. This information may be submitted via the Personnel Reporting Tool, via email DSDirectorPSS@state.gov, or directly to InsiderThreatReporting@state.gov.

Read in full here.

Via State/DS

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A New Trend? Posts’ Requests to @StateDept For Authorized Departures Go Public

 

 

In a span of a couple of weeks, we’ve seen two reports of diplomatic posts requesting the State Department to go on evacuation status leaked to the press. This has occasionally happened in the past, of course, but only in isolated cases.  The most notable happened at some posts in one region in March 2020 where the missions’ Emergency Action Committees (EAC) recommended an “ordered departure” for their posts and a top bureau official reportedly talked the ambassadors out of requesting it.
Were these requests from Kyiv and Beijing leaked because the EACs/ACOMs were dissuaded from making formal requests in the first place, which then avoided a formal response from the bureaus/DOS, or were these leaked to ensure that the requests are now public record, ramping up the pressure on State to agree to the requests? The EACs typically make recommendations in these cases and the departures are then requested by the chief of mission (COM). Final approval is by the Under Secretary for Management (M).
In the case of US Embassy Kyiv, the request made the news on January 21, and the State Department made it official on January 23. In Mission China’s case, the request made the news on January 26. As of this writing, the China travel advisory remains at Level 3, and no authorized departure has been announced as of this writing. The new US Ambassador to China was sworn-in on January 27.

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