State Dept. employees fired for snooping into Obama’s passport file + Hillary & McCain!
Who would allow such a
thing?
Who sets standards for State Dept contractors?
I revised because of the latest update. 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.
Thanks, K B
Posted: Fri - March 21, 2008 at 06:25 AM