Posted on 03/20/2008 4:35:42 PM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 03/20/2008 5:44:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DIRTY TRICKS FEAR AFTER STATE DEPT. FIRES TWO FOR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO BARACK OBAMA'S PERSONAL PASSPORT FILE... MORE...
OBAMA'S PASSPORT DATA BREACHED; STATE DEPT INVESTIGATION, 2 FIRED
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DIRTY TRICKS FEAR AFTER STATE DEPT. FIRES TWO FOR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO BARACK OBAMA'S PERSONAL PASSPORT FILE... MORE... WASHINGTON TIMES SET TO SPLASH THE DEVELOPMENT, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE REPORT... MORE...
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Obama campaign says 'outrageous breach of security and privacy... we demand to know who looked at the passport file, for what purpose'... MORE...
my guess is idle curiosity, no dirty tricks
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was notified of the security breach yesterday, and responded by saying security measures used to monitor records of high-profile Americans worked properly in detecting the breaches.
Mr. McCormack said the officials did not appear to be seeking information on behalf of any political candidate or party.
“As far as we can tell, in each of the three cases, it was imprudent curiosity,” Mr. McCormack told The Washington Times.
A similar data breach took place in 1992 when State Department officials looked up data on presidential candidate Bill Clinton, in an attempt to find out information from the late 1960s, amid unfounded political campaign rumors that Mr. Clinton had sought to renounce his citizenship to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
That incident triggered a three-year investigation by a special prosecutor, who found that no laws were violated but officials exercised poor judgment. The 1992 search of Mr. Clinton’s passport records was part of an effort to speed up Freedom of Information Act requests.
One administration official said the FBI is conducting a preliminary inquiry into the officials involved in the unauthorized access incidents related to Mr. Obama, Illinois Democrat. An FBI spokesman could not be reached for comment.
Your passport application can state the reason you are travelling. Hadj to Mecca would be an interesting reason.
Hannity on the story now.
It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!
I went to the USSR in 1988 with a college class, before the fall of Communism, and stayed there for 2 months.... does that make me a Commie? No.
“I went to the USSR in 1988 with a college class, before the fall of Communism, and stayed there for 2 months.... does that make me a Commie? No.”
a hajj to mecca would be kind of different wouldnt it?
when they ask for purpose of travel, one puts business or pleasure{vacation}. Nobodyh gets details
O.K., I'm convinced; Clinton Inc. did it.
Ping me if you see anything else, i’ll do the same.
Well, what I’m saying is that I had a concentration in Soviet Studies while in college and visited the USSR in ‘88 — suppose Obama had a concentration in Middle East studies or whatnot while doing his undergraduate work at Columbia — wouldn’t these trips then be legitimized?
(That’s what his camp will contend!)
“...whenever you visit a country and show your passport they check to see where else you have been...”
That’s nice....but that information doesn’t show up in any State Dept. records!
What I do know is that Obama traveled out of the U.S. mainland in Nov. 2007 — to go to fundraisers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for one day. He did not require his passport then, given that the two are U.S. territories.
It’s about his statement couple of days ago that he has traveled to Europe in re to his position he took in Jan on some foreign relations committee he heads up. Probably he really hasn’t done any travel since he has been campaigning. Hillary done it.
“That’s nice....but that information doesn’t show up in any State Dept. records!”
How do you know that, Larr? Where did you hear that?
Obama needs LifeLoc to protect himself from identity theft now! LOL!
Cuz I’ve got a couple of passports full of stamps.
They stamp your passport as you enter.
They DO NOT scan some barcode that reads your passport and forwards the data!
Hmmm.... interesting
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