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justamom
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:45 pm |
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3 candidates' passport files breached
BY DESMOND BUTLER and ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writers
34 minutes ago
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.
In Clinton's case, an individual last summer accessed her file as part of a training session involving another State Department worker. McCormack said the one-time violation was immediately recognized and the person was admonished.
The incidents raise the question of whether the information was accessed for political purposes.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with Obama and Clinton on Friday and expressed her regrets. She planned to speak with McCain as well. State Department officials headed to Capitol Hill to brief the staffs of all three candidates.
"The secretary has made it clear . . . to them that this is top priority," McCormack said. "There's nothing else that's more important than make sure go through and do this investigation."
The State Department said the Justice Department would be monitoring the probe in case it needs to get involved. The Justice Department declined to comment on its role.
McCormack declined to name the companies that employed the contractors, despite demands by a senior House Democrat that such information is in the public interest.
"At this point, we just started an investigation," he said. "We want to err on the side of caution."
Sen. McCain, who was in Paris on Friday, said any breach of passport privacy deserves an apology and a full investigation.
"The United States of America values everyone's privacy and corrective action should be taken," McCain said.
It is not clear whether the employees saw anything other than the basic personal data such as name, citizenship, age, Social Security number and place of birth, which is required when a person fills out a passport application.
Aside from the file, the information could allow critics to dig deeper into the candidates' private lives. While the file includes date and place of birth, address at time of application and the countries the person has traveled to, the most important detail would be their Social Security number, which can be used to pull credit reports and other personal information.
The violations were detected because electronic files of high-profile people are flagged.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080321/ap_on_el_pr/obama_passport
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| justamom
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:45 pm |
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edit
sorry duplicate post my laptop was on drugs
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| Phantom
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:46 pm |
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Likely excuse, lol
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| justamom
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:47 pm |
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Its true LOL. I got a new one and the buttons stick on me I swear its got a lifeof its own.
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| gwen
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:48 pm |
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This story has certainly taken the spotlight off Obama's race speech...
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| justamom
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:52 pm |
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Its always something but I do think the crap with Obama last week will resonate in peoples thoughts for awhile. Lets see what comes next lol.
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| dugo
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:51 pm |
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Re: 3 candidates' passport files breached
| justamom wrote: | | In Clinton's case, an individual last summer accessed her file as part of a training session involving another State Department worker. |
Why don't they use Bush's file for training purposes? As POTUS he can't expect to have any privacy anyhow, and there are no election issues because he is in his last term...
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| flibberdeejibbet
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:57 pm |
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big brother is watching us
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:33 pm |
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Why are candidates sex lives more important than knowing where they've been traveling?
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Click your heels together...
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State Dept. Uncovers Passport Breaches of 20 Big-Name Americans, Including Anna Nicole Smith
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Associated Press has learned that a State Department review has found at least 20 instances of workers peeking at the passport files of high-profile Americans, including former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, over the past year.
That is far more than disclosed last week when U.S. officials discovered that workers had improperly snooped into the passport files of the three presidential candidates. It's not yet clear if the other files were looked at improperly. Although officials told AP that Smith's file appears to have been accessed on a legitimate request for information needed for her death certificate after she died in the Bahamas last year.
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Oh Lawdy.......poor Anna Nicole...she could have run for President. 
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| Schmerty
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:41 am |
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Of Course!!! What a pity!!!
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Skipping along my own path.
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