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| Specter Wants Justice Department to Look Into Passport Breaches |
| 2008-03-24 |
 Senator Arlen Specter, ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, called on the Justice Department to investigate the improper breach of confidential passport files of all three presidential candidates by contract employees at the U.S. State Department. ``That kind of a breach of privacy is just despicable,'' Specter, of Pennsylvania, said on CNN's ``Late Edition'' today. ``There are federal criminal statutes involved. I think that ought to be a very intense investigation.'' |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 The idiots were caught, some fired and the others punished. This is just posturing. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-24 16:51 |
| #5 The idiots were caught, some fired and the others punished. This is just posturing. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-24 16:50 |
| #4 While Specter is a goofball, this is exactly something the Justice Department was set up to look at. I have seen calls for a congressional investigation, but congress needs to keep their dirty money grabbers out of it. Let the wheels of bureaucracy grind slowly on and they will find whether this was just idle and misplaced curiosity, or a full blown smear attempt. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-03-24 07:58 |
| #3 The passport files that were accessed contain only data to apply for passport, i.e. name, DoB, SSAN, address, etc. Great for identify theft, no good to see where someone has traveled. That data would be over in Homeland Security now, dates and flights coming and going when you passed through Customs. |
| Posted by: Steve 2008-03-24 07:27 |
| #2 Anyone check Bergers shorts? In April 2005, Berger pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives in Washington. According to the lead prosecutor in the case Berger only took copies of classified information and that no original material was destroyed; however, there is notable controversy and speculation that he might have removed or destroyed originals of other unknown documents as well. Berger currently serves as a foreign policy adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign.[2] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-03-24 02:10 |
| #1 lol! Funny photo. Ok - so I admit, I'm curious. What did the look at Hillary Clinton's passport reveal? |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-24 01:22 |