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I moved this back to the top because of the latest update [link at the bottom]. As long as Condi was telephoning Obama to apologize about the snooping, she apparently decided to call everyone who was snooped. Like Hillary Cinton. Like John McCain.
The State Department has fired two contract employees and disciplined a third for accessing Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file…
The employees were each caught because of a computer-monitoring system that is triggered when the passport accounts of a “high-profile person” are accessed, he said. The system was put in place after the State Department was embroiled in a scandal involving the access of the passport records of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992.
Though the workers were caught by a computer system that focuses on high-profile people, Casey said that a computer report is generated on every access to passport records and that spot checks are taken to ensure that employees are not violating the Privacy Act.
“This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. “This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama’s passport file, for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach.”
I didn’t think there were any limits on snooping left in government.
UPDATE: Turns out Hillary’s passport files were snooped!
AND – John McCain’s files, too.
Thanks, K B
>>This bunch believe Bush is responsible
>>for everything from the Lincoln
>>assassination to sun spots.
No, but it’s a verifiable fact that he’s responsible for just about everything that’s gone wrong with America since 2000.
That guy is a reverse King Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit.
>>assuming the process wasn’t another
>>no-bid affair.
Aren’t they ALL no-bid affairs now? Doesn’t the government outsource everything without bids to either Halliburton or Diebold? Or are there other butt buddies of President Rove/ Cheney that I haven’t heard about?
MM
Glad to see you’re back with us.
Tinfoil hat my ass – not nearly enough to cover some of you folks. Try a full Tinfoil Tuxedo.
Two employees were fired and a third disciplined for looking at Obama’s passport file. How many were fired for looking at McCain and Clinton’s files?
This isn’t a White House or Republican plot as much as curious eyes just looking. But why wasn’t the third person fired?
Too funny! The breach occurred at company run by Obama adviser, John O. Brennan. Obama’s ability to pick advisers seems non-existent.
He first picks a racist, US hating preacher and then this Brennan idiot.
#37 Pat, company CEO John O. Brennan is a former senior CIA official and former interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center, according to CNN. How does choosing him as an advisor reflect poorly on Obama’s judgment, in your learned opinion? He would seem to have already been well vetted by the government, wouldn’t you think? Are you just bashing Obama randomly, or do you have an actual point to make?
#38 – If you knew anything of how these guys are “vetted” then you wouldn’t ask me that question.
He is obviously incompetent as his internal security procedures are non-existent. Only the State Dept DB system caught them. NOT the companies procedures. That is, if Brennan didn’t set this up for Obama so he could deflect the media attention from his racist mentor..
#39 Pat writes, “If you knew anything of how these guys are ‘vetted’ then you wouldn’t ask me that question.”
Sorry for my ignorance, Pat, but what CIA vetting procedures do you feel are most lacking, and what would you do to improve them? I would also suggest that rising to the level of a senior CIA official means that he survived a number of performance reviews, so maybe you can include your suggestions on how to improve that process as well. Thank you, and again, I apologize for my ignorance.
#40 – You excused for your ignorance of what the vetting procedure is. Measuring competence is not part of it. Nor is competence a prerequisite for rising through the ranks of gov’t employment.
#41 Pat, it sounds like the war on terror should really start with a major overhaul of our intelligence community from the ground up, rather than sending such completely incompetent people out into the world to wreak havoc.
Mission not even started.
#42 – Yes.