Posted on 03/20/2008 5:51:22 PM PDT by jdm
** EXCERPT **
Two State Department employees were fired recently and a third disciplined for improperly accessing electronic personal data on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Bush administration officials said yesterday.
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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.
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Asked whether a political candidate or party is behind the incidents, Mr. McCormack said: "None at this point in time that we have determined."
Mr. McCormack declined to provide the names of the employees or the contract, but he said they were hired by the contractor involved in producing, processing and approving passports.
"This is supposed to be a transaction between an individual and the government, and this is private information that we take a lot of steps to protect, and we take that responsibility seriously, not only for high profile individuals but for everybody," he said.
Mr. McCormack said the incidents took place at consular affairs facilities in the Washington area.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
No kidding. You need to work Hilterly or Clintoon into your posts.
Why? I agree it was Hillary moles. Look at the dates— Jan 9 after Iowa, Feb 21 (after super Tuesday (19th) and LAST Friday. This is a concerted invasion.Republicans could care less. THESE ARE CLINTON CAMPAIGN AGENTS in my opinion. When this was done to that sorry Clinton it was investigated by a special prosecutor.
Also I went over to DU and saw a couple lonesome posts questioning the rabid rush to pin this on Bush. They haven't noticed the Conason connection yet.
I hope Andrea and Keith get into as much minute
bureaucratic detail about Hillary’s phone records
and WH records AND THE FBI FILES!
This is SO Clintonesque .. and then blaming Bush ..
too perfect... LOL.
The obvious culprit is Clinton, dummies!
“jaw dropping” ... dear Lord. Keith is going to
need hardcore meds tonight.
Oh what webs they weave .....
I may have misjudged you and I apologize for that.
MSNBC just reported that Condi Rice was never kept in the loop. Seems tales of her irrelevance were underestimated.
The state department must REALLY want the clintons back.
Good! I sure hope Condi gets to the ‘bottom of this’...LOL!! Patrick Kennedy doing the answer session tomorrow!! Who is he? Is he a Clinton Holdover?
It wasn’t the ‘Patrick Kennedy’ who is the drunk driver nephew to Teddy..It was some clown at State(I think) by the same name. If someone caught the snippet, let me know. I will digg up his info.
Gladly. Obama served on the Senate European affairs committee or some such. He boasted of having traveled extensively in Europe without much to back it up. Clinton lackey par excellence Joe Conason wrote a piece on Dec 29 asking why Obama didn't release his passport records to prove his claim. The first breach was Jan 9 after BO won Iowa and Hillary had to scramble. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Hmmmm... 900 FBI files? In all seriousness, was a list of the people whose FBI files got pulled by the Clintons ever released?
Not to mention the usefulness of some forgotten Obama family vacation in the Middle East. Trip to Mecca?
Now wouldn’t that liven things up...LOL!! Olberman having to go to other ‘news’ now...LOL!! Guess he got the memo: ‘Drop It’ from the DNC now....LOL!!
Once Drudge posts the Conason link this entire thing will turn on Hillary. Lets find out if these contractors have any affiliations. The MSM hates Bush first, Hillary second (now that she’s a typical white person).
What exactly is the Conason link???
Theres a LOT of Obama sympathy suddenly on the thread. I sense a disturbance.
I honestly think that they now know it was Clinton Holdovers and the media is going to drop it like a hot potato!
Office of Consular AFFAIRS!!
BREAKING NEWS!! IT WAS CLINTON..OLBERMAN REPORTING IT NOW!!
LMAO!!
AWE..OLBERMAN WITH EGG ON HIS FACE..SO SWEET!! LOL!!
Eric Holder
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Judicial Watch investigations, blocked by Holder for two years turn up the Huang spy scandal
http://federal.com/jun16-97/Cash ((no longer an active link))
“...Equally shocking is it that the Huang spy scandal was not uncovered by the U.S. media. It was uncovered by the private watchdog group Judicial Watch during its investigation of the corrupt dealings of the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.
Those investigations were blocked in court for almost two years by the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The leader of that office, Eric Holder, was recently nominated by Bill Clinton to Deputy Attorney General and sailed through a superficial confirmation hearing in the Senate last week. Both the mainstream media and the Senators on the Committee completely failed to point out Holder’s involvement in the cover-up of the John Huang spy scandal...”
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July 18, 1997 Eric Holder sworn in as Deputy Attorney General
Washington Weekly 7/20/97 “.It all started with the “D.A. Massacre” at the U.S. Justice Department. The Clinton administration in 1993 fired all U.S. Attorneys and replaced them with loyal cronies. That almost ended accountability for the Clinton administration, because indictment for crimes would have to be brought by U.S. Attorneys.
An example is U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, conveniently placed at the District of Columbia-the actual crime scene for most of the misdeeds of the Clinton Administration.
He has repeatedly refused prosecution of Clinton administration employees despite referrals with clear evidence of wrongdoing..
The Inspectors General of the different government agencies are the ethics and crime watchdogs. During the Clinton administration, they, as well as the respective general counsels, were replaced with loyal cronies answering no longer to the people of the United States but to the White House Counsel’s office, the central intelligence office of the operation as we shall see later..
Political intelligence gathered by Inspector Generals and other covert operatives of the White House Counsel’s office has limited value if it cannot be turned into action. This is where political blackmail enters the picture. A truly corrupt administration can only survive if it can control public opinion, the judicial system, and the political system.
Public opinion is controlled by the Clinton-friendly media. The judicial system has been taken care of as described above. That leaves the political system, which can still hold hearings and vote to impeach.
The only effective way to deal with politicians is by blackmail. To blackmail a politician, you need dirt. To collect dirt, you need a private investigator or FBI agents. The White House has and uses both.. The replacement of the FBI director and the appointment of an Attorney General, both of whom are loyal cronies of the Clinton administration is an important part of the plan. Take as an example the current campaign financing scandal.”
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Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder said investigators have no credible evidence under the Independent Counsel Act against the Clinton administration in its decision to allow Loral to export a communications satellite to China.
The Washington Weekly 4/6/98 Editorial “…THE SILENT COUP It would seem that the Clinton administration has won a silent coup by short-circuiting the judicial system. It can no longer be prosecuted or removed. Only two people in positions of power have not been intimidated or corrupted:
Lawyer Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch and Judge Royce Lamberth who sits on the federal bench.
Together, these two have performed miracles in the Chinagate, Filegate, and HealthCareGate scandals. But their hands are tied. All they can do is to force testimony.
Whenever criminal acts have been uncovered during Klayman’s investigations or Lamberth’s civil trials, those criminal acts have been referred to a U.S. Attorney.
One of Clinton’s first acts in office was to replace all U.S. Attorneys with loyal and corrupt cronies. Not only have all these U.S. Attorneys failed to initiate any criminal prosecution of Clinton administration employees on their own, they have also interfered with prosecutions by other jurisdictions (D.A. Robert Morgenthau of Manhattan and his money laundering investigation, for example) and they have failed to prosecute any of the referrals they have received from Judge Lamberth and from Congress.
The crucial office of U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, where by their very nature most Clinton administration crimes have been committed, was given to the corrupt Ron Brown protege Eric Holder. Holder was last year rewarded for years of obstruction of justice with an appointment to Deputy Attorney General….”
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And much more here:
http://www.alamo-girl.com/03154.htm
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WOO HOO! And the Clinton State Dept. connection is revealed !
Popcorn time ... ROFL!
Hillary knew the Clinton-leftovers would come in handy.
Of course .. the Bush admin will get blamed which is just the way Hillary likes it.
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