According to MSNBC McCain's passport file also breached

[krawhitham]

[TwilightGardener]

1. This is strange. Suddenly now EVERYONE'S files were breached?

WTF?

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Maybe saying McCrazy too, to cover GOP asses?

Hmmmmm?

[TwilightGardener]

8. That's what I'm thinking. It's the "Ooops, equal-opportunity incompetence--

NOT politically-motivated!" diversion.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. 'zactly

[slinkerwink]

13. it depends on date of the breach

if it was last week, then we'll know it was a political coverup.

[bicentennial_baby]

27. Someone dowthread is saying March 14th

[latinolatteliberal]

33. what if it was before last week?

If it was before McCain emerged as the presumptive GOP nominee, maybe we can imagine that the administration was trying to influence the outcome of their nomination race.

All in all, it does smell like a clever cover-up tactic to me, but I don't think Bush is above spying on his own party.

[KittyWampus]

11. The Cheney contingent did NOT want McCain as candidate.

[bicentennial_baby]

14. There is that as well

Good point

[KittyWampus]

22. Further, if they were breached- was it to scrub them? When did it happen?

[TwilightGardener]

17. Nah, McCain's more of a neocon than Cheney. They didn't have a problem

with him--that was manufactured by the Limbaughs of the world.

edit--besides, McCrazy had already been vetted as VP in 2000 for Chimpy, after he lost.

[KittyWampus]

25. You are very, very wrong. They did not want McCain.

[TwilightGardener]

28. No, they don't care about McCain. If they didn't want him, they would

have done him in before he got the nom. They're letting the old man have his time in the sun, but that BS about conservatives hating McCain is just that--BS, at least at the highest level. Bush and McCain and Cheney are NOT mortal enemies.

[Tempest]

2. So why hasn't Rice apologized to McSame?

This doesn't pass the smell test.

[snappyturtle]

5. Bingo! It doesn't pass the smell test. eom

[quantass]

4. WTF..I just got a call saying my passport was breached! Wheres my coverage :(

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Now Carolina Rice is claiming Clinton's was breached too...

:eyes:

Wake me when this stupidity is over.

[blogslut]

7. Sounds to me like this breach is more widespread than just presidential candidates

Not good.

[slinkerwink]

9. now it gives McCain coverage to run against Bush administration

[blogslut]

15. could be

My worry is that there might be many others who had their files compromised. This may end up being a big, big damned deal.

[slinkerwink]

20. if it's just political, then it's a big deal

and if it extends beyond that to normal us citizens, then it's still a big damn deal.

[cyberpj]

12. Sorry... This feels like a setup in case of exposure. Feels like Rove work. nt

[grannylib]

16. I bet the peek into McCain's (or the claim thereof) is to deflect

any criticism of the administration targeting just Democrats. It'll make it easier to claim it was just idle curiosity on the part of a few bad apples, and will help cover up whatever nefarious shit they were really up to.

[KittyWampus]

18. Not at all. McCain was NOT THE CHOSEN GOP CANDIDATE

[TwilightGardener]

24. He was. He and Bush are not enemies. He'll carry out the neocon plan.

[Zynx]

37. McCain's nomination wasn't a sure thing at all until Florida.

[TwilightGardener]

42. OK, for the last time--McCain is a Neocon. He is obsessed with Israel

and war and military intervention and Iran. The BushCo cabal do not have a problem with him. He might not have been their preferred guy, but they would have taken him out a long time ago if they had something on him and didn't want him.

[Dinger]

19. A Question (For Everyone): What Was The Reason For Obama's Breach

being reported 1st, then Hillary's, then mccan'ts?

[thewiseguy]

23. Obama's breach took place 3 times by 3 different people.

[City Lights]

21. Nothing to see here, people.

This reeks of CYA.

[JimGinPA]

26. McSame's Passport File Was Breached MAR. 14 By The Person Who Looked At Obama's

[TwilightGardener]

29. Oh, right. Sure.

[Highway61]

30. From MSM?

Oh, It's gotta be true!

[CPschem]

31. Not to rain on the conspiracy parade

but isn't it possible, even likely, that these employees just searched for info on famous people? I worked in a hospital a few years ago and it happened all the time (apparently before tracking technology).

[TwilightGardener]

40. This is considered a breach of national security, because info

gathered from this can be used against Presidential candidates in any number of ways--blackmail, travel habits, associates, etc. This is not innocent snooping, like when I was a nurse and noticed an open chart on a desk.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

45. My Mom called me last night...

in a rage. She worked for both the Army (crypto) and the Federal Gov., had a high security clearance for both and was a data entry person. Her immediate thoughts on this was that there is just no way that someone could/would access that particular kind of information on such a whim -- the clearance requred, the mode of access required, the steps one must take to access the info -- she immediately said something is stinking to high heaven.

[tomg]

32. I'm Spartacus. No I'm Spartacus. nt

[BobbyVan]

34. I hate to say it...

but it's probably a bunch of people "googling" famous people. They probably also looked at Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton's passport files.

[CPschem]

35. exactly

[ficus1]

36. That would be the simple explanation

But why go with a simple explanation when you can invent a conspiracy? There is generally nothing in a passport file that could be considered as controversial. The breaches show a dismaying lack of professionalism and security, but that's it.

[PATRICK]

38. I would say eerily reminiscent

but maybe wearily or warily would be better. There have been other instances when Dems came under some criminal attack and belatedly a GOP candidate goes, "Gosh, me too!" Wasn't there some case where Romney said his headquarters had been violated after it happened to some rival. Kerry's computer gone missing. The digital spying by GOP aides on the Congress. The spying on UN representatives leading up to pressure on the vote for war. Numerous other idle curiosity slipups and coincidences in "these things happen without explanation" Bushworld.

Now you see why we need unlimited non-FISA interference for Big Brother George, political spying incorporated since early in 2001. A family tradition of sneaky dirt going back to the first World War.

Shocked, puzzled, amazed, without explanation except it must be the Clinton's fault. Everything is all too familiar, God groaning tiresome crap, including the disingenuous ignorance of the MSM turning instinctively upon the victims.

[eleny]

39. My bullsit meter just exploded

[TwilightGardener]

41. Mine too. We are the Few, the Proud, the Paranoid.

[eleny]

43. !

[Ben143]

44. This shows the media's pro-Obama bias

They somehow found out Obama's breach first.

SNL was very right.