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.
~snip~
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.
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I wonder if they’ll suffer the same fate as the DSCC Schumer staffers that stole Michael Steele’s SSN and used it to get his financial data?
If you want to see full-throated liberal mania
and theatrical, apocalyptic, foaming-at-the-mouth
conspiratorial paranoia, Bush bashing and delusional
high drama...
tune into MSNBC. Every available first tier
reporter has been called in for duty.
Keith Wackymann is going to sleep with an orgasmic
smirk on his face tonight, if he can even sleep
with his glee, and serendipitously.. Obama’s race
issues are off the front pages.
A couple of Klinton goons.
LOL! I was on the other thread when it broke- watching the HYSTERIA on MSNBC was a hoot!
Now Dan Abrams is trying to fill Olbermann’s shoes- but he can’t get quite as worked up..
Ooops!
Here comes Andrea Mitchell.
LOL..You aren’t kidding. Just turned it on...Andrea Mitchell...breaking news...blahblahblah. MAYBE WE WILL FINALLY GET RID OF THE CLINTON HOLDOVERS IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT!! LMAO!!
ANDREA TRYING TO ‘BLAME BUSH’ ALREADY!! Good grief. Just mentioned Condi...this is ridiculous. Surley the MSM knows that the State Department is infected with Clintonistas..that is where they get all their leaks!!
(yawn) He’s got Arab and Moslem ancestors.
OBAMA’S PASSPORT DATA BREACHED
Drudge
Posted on 03/20/2008 7:35:42 PM EDT by kcvl
Edited on 03/20/2008 8:44:16 PM EDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989099/posts
Ding Ding Ding!
We have our first Hillary connection. That Conason piece questions Obama's boast of having "traveled extensively in Europe?" and demands that he release his passport records. It was published on Dec 29 and the first breach of Barry's records was in early Jan. It's almost as if a flying monkey read the article and went digging.
The "innocent curiosity" explanation has some weight. I worked for a large bank for a bit and the underlings there used to pass the time by looking up celebrity accounts. They were even using them in training sessions. (Oooh Leonardo bought a super-soaker, etc.). So that sort of thing does happen frequently with large databases and bored employees.
But a charter Clinton water carrier like Conason bring up Obama's passport records just days before the breach? If the MSM morons would take a break from trying to pin this on Condi/Bush they might get Hillary on a stick.
I missed that .. she actually said that?
LOLOLOL !!
I put NOTHING past the Clinton machine, but
these are low level contract employees.
I guess it is possible.
Clinton raised hell because the public had to be protected fron the knowledge that Rhodes Scholar raped Eileen Wellstone, was quietly removed from the school, and was thrown out of the country.
Cui bono?
Or you could read the comments on the article at Politico.com. There is so much stupidity out there.
Of course, the commentors don't get paid an Olberman salary.
Chuckie, #9 (Eliot), Hillary, Shelly, David (I am blind but who do I see, Yo MAMA!) Maurice, and all the rest of the Gnu Yak (or Carpetbagging Creeps) Demoncraps can just leave. They are all crooks or worse. Please make them go away!
OMG..going back to Olberman for a special edition!! I can’t stand that loon! LOL!!
This is such a Non-Story IMHO, but if you watch MSNBC it’s like 9/11 just happend again.
The MSNBC crew was frothing to pin it on Bush. Joe DiGenova kept saying “middle management” and “civil servants” and it was breaking their hearts. Meanwhile the only person who ever made a stink about Ojesus’s records happens to be a Clinton goon.
Too funny ..
Eric Holder: you protesteth too much.
You, as a allegedly reformed Clintonista,
know their tactics.
OMG !!! I’M HYSTERICAL HERE.
Keith Wackymann CANNOT SLEEP .. he’s got
a special edition for this .. LIVE.
LOLOL!!
He’ll be up all night! He’ll have to go
on IV sustenance. Hyperbole = your name
is Keith.
It is HILARIOUS!!!!
Olbermann must have someone near by with smelling salts is all I can say..
These law violators were “Contract” agents. That means there was no background checks. The breaches were January 9, February 23 and March 14 (LAST FRIDAY!!) Who ever this was must go to prison (its a felony). I want them to disgorge 1. who was ordering this? 2. what were their motivations. This is a concerted criminal act. I don’t see FOX on this . Do you?
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