State Department passport official steps down.

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/05/state-department-passport-official-steps-down/

The State Department has announced that Ann Barrett, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for overseeing passport services, is stepping down. Her resignation comes “two weeks after the agency said files of the three presidential candidates had been improperly accessed,” although the State Department refused “to link her departure to the uproar.”

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_L_Jw8vBHNPJbwvsYsWzs8JVK3wD8VR6NN81

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/05brfs-PASSPORTOFFI_BRF.html

[Hekate]

1. I'd like to know if she was career civil service or another Bush appointee

Just asking

Hekate

[appleannie1]

3. Look at this. Probably appointed.

Testimony of Ann Barrett Managing Director for Office of Passport Services Bureau of Consular Affairs
May 31, 2006 ____________
Chairman Sununu and distinguished members,
Thank you for providing me this opportunity to appear before the committee to update you on the Department of State’s efforts, in close cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, to strengthen U.S. border security and facilitate international travel through the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). I am pleased to participate with Bob Jacksta of the Department of Homeland Security at this hearing. Our joint appearance symbolizes the effective partnership between State and DHS, which is essential to the efficient implementation of WHTI. As Mr. Jacksta has focused on the policy rationale for WHTI, I would like to focus on the question of “how” this challenging program will be implemented. This division of responsibilities recognizes the authority of the Secretary of State to adjudicate nationality. The State Department will issue most of the travel and identity documents that will allow Americans to comply easily and at relatively low cost with the requirements of WHTI.

[appleannie1]

2. They are dropping like flies at a cesspool. Oh wait.............the administration is a cesspool.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Did you know that our passports are made in Thailand?

The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies — including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage —


http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080326/NATION/840186493/1001