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2008-03-21 Home Front Economy
Obama passport files violated; 2 State Dept workers fired
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Posted by Steve White 2008-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 I'd like to see BO's wife's thesis violated/hacked into. It will remain sealed until after the election supposidly.

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Posted by Jan 2008-03-21 00:17||   2008-03-21 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It was a Clinton operative - surprise, surprise. Maura Harty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Harty
Not clear that Ms. Harty is a Clinton operative from the wiki article. In fact, she seems to be more of a career diplomat. Nothing wrong with that. AoS.
Posted by ClemScheck 2008-03-21 02:18||   2008-03-21 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 This is verrrry interesting, too. (Found it on HotAir).

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/12/29/obama_europe/

Look at the last paragraph - "all Obama has to do is release his passport info."
Posted by ClemScheck 2008-03-21 02:28||   2008-03-21 02:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Jim Geraghty, National Review:

A little while back, the Hillary campaign — specifically Lee Feinstein, the campaign's national security director, asked a question:

As voters evaluate you as a potential Commander-in-Chief, do you think it's legitimate for people to be concerned that you have traveled to only one NATO country, on a brief stopover trip in 2005, and have never traveled to Latin America?

I remember hearing their charge that Obama had only visited one NATO country in his life and it seemed pretty hard to believe... out of countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, etc., Obama had only been to one? The boy who grew up in Indonesia, and visited relatives in Africa, never made it to any of those European countries? The guy who lived in Chicago and went to Harvard never made it to Canada? (I presume Canada wasn't the site of the brief stopover trip.)

Now, I'm not saying that the Hillary camp did the snooping in the passport file. But in asking that question, they seemed awfully certain that Obama had never been to one of those countries earlier in his life, didn't they? Note they didn't say, "you have traveled to only one NATO country as a senator", (it wouldn't be all that surprising that Obama had only taken a few foreign trips since taking office in January 2005); they worded the question so that it encompasses his entire life.

The question came from the Hillary camp on March 12; two of the breaches were before that date. One breach occurred two days later.

Hmmm...
Posted by Mike 2008-03-21 06:02||   2008-03-21 06:02|| Front Page Top

#5 You peek at a file and get fired. You leak classified information to the NYT et al, and you're a media hero.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-21 09:06||   2008-03-21 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Where is Sandy these days?
Posted by Skunky Glins5285">Skunky Glins5285  2008-03-21 09:14||   2008-03-21 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Looks like the three of them got hit.

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.
Posted by tu3031 2008-03-21 13:19||   2008-03-21 13:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Sandy Burglar is now advising Hillary Clinton on national security matters. LINK HERE
Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling about how these people are continually recycled.......like sewage in an ocean outfall.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-03-21 15:44||   2008-03-21 15:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Oopsie on #2 above. Wishful thinking and was way past my bedtime lol. Oh well. She's still a Clinton appointee :)

My apologies all (and Ms. Harty if you are reading this).
Posted by ClemScheck 2008-03-21 18:14||   2008-03-21 18:14|| Front Page Top

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