AP: 3 Candidates' Passport Files Breached

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

3 Candidates' Passport Files Breached

By DESMOND BUTLER and ANNE FLAHERTY
The Associated Press
Friday, March 21, 2008; 1:04 PM

WASHINGTON -- The passport files of the three presidential
candidates _ Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and
John McCain _ have been breached, the State Department
said Friday.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the
breaches of McCain and Clinton's passport files were not
discovered until Friday, after officials were made aware of
the privacy violation regarding Obama's records and a
separate search was conducted.

McCormack said the individual who accessed Obama's files
also reviewed McCain's file earlier this year. This contract
employee has been reprimanded, but not fired. The individual
no longer has access to passport records, he said.

"We are reviewing our options with respect to that person
and his employment status," McCormack said.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/21/ST2008032101821.html

[Zueda]

1. In Clinton's case...

I think 'Breach' is a bit of an overstatement.

[Taverner]

2. This was a message to all of them

Trust me, there was no coincidence, and the fact that it is public is even more telling.

[uppityperson]

3. k&r for spying

[joeybee12]

4. Yeah, the Bots are writhing in agony now...no conspiracy by Hilary to get BO's files...

...all this shows is that condo-liar rice needs to be fired.

[Donnachaidh]

5. was thinking the same thing too

Gee - Two massive blowouts on conspiracies in 24 hours? John Edwards goes on Leno and endorses NO ONE (despite the evil spitting and hissing of the bots that he WOULD endorse Hillary) - and it turns out that the breach involved Hillary's passport info - was her's breached first? Hope someone checks that.

My -- the buildup to martyrdom was quashed rather nicely by REALITY checks. :sarcasm:

Maybe we will get through this full moon sequence in one piece. :rofl:

[MiniMe]

6. I wonder if they checked out all the Presidential Candidates

Romney, Huckabee, Biden, Richardson, Guilliani, etc. If the first breach was in January, McCain was not looking like a leading candidate.