Apparently there have been more than a few FR threads about the passport breach in 2008, which is one of the things mentioned in the reports.
Passport files, as well as other personal information, of John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Obama, were "inappropriately accessed" by an employee of an intelligence consulting firm owned by John Brennan. Brennan is currently Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Hagmann alleges that what the breach was really after were the Obama records, and that including McCain and Clinton were decoys.
A man found murdered in DC back in 2008 was cooperating with a federal investigation into the passport breach. He had implicated a state department employee as a co-conspirator in the passport case.
Hagmann's theory is that the passport breach was part of a complicated, detailed and long-standing "scrubbing" of Obama's history, and that of his family and associates.
“Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car,...”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/