Passport Files, Passport Files: $3 a dozen!
Obviously the Slime Machines are getting ready for the Fall Elections! The violations were committed by “contractors” from Stanley Inc. Does anyone work for the government any more?
Washington Post, March 21st, 2008
The State Department said today that four employees examined the passport files of three presidential candidates without authorization, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised a full investigation into what she called a disturbing breach of privacy.
Rice told reporters this morning that she has apologized to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for the unauthorized viewing of his passport file by three State Department contract employees. The breach, disclosed last night, prompted the department to fire two of the employees.
Investigators found that one of the contract employees who viewed Obama’s file had also looked into the passport file of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) without authorization earlier this year, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. That person has been “disciplined” and no longer has access to passport records but has not been fired, he said.
“We are reviewing our options with respect to that individual’s continued employment with the department,” he said.
A fourth person, a State Department trainee in the passport office, called up the file of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) during a training session last summer and was “immediately admonished,” McCormack said. Click here to read more in the Washington Post.