Posted on 03/22/2008 3:19:16 PM PDT by charles m
The State Department investigation into how and why the passport files of three presidential candidates were breached is scrutinizing an employee at a Virginia-based company, which is headed by an adviser to Barack Obamas campaign.
The Washington Times, which broke the news Thursday that Obamas files were improperly accessed, reported Saturday that the State Department inspector generals internal probe will include polygraph tests of supervisors to determine whether there was a political motive behind the breaches.
The article said a focal point of the probe will be an employee who works for The Analysis Corporation and is still with the company. The firm is headed by John O. Brennan, an Obama adviser, FOX News confirms. The Times reported he advises the Democratic presidential candidate on intelligence and foreign policy matters.
The Times reported that the employee at TAC is the only individual who accessed both Obamas and John McCains passport information. TAC decided to honor a State Department request to delay firing the consultant to give investigators time to conduct their investigation, the company said.
Two other contract workers were fired from Stanley Inc. after it was discovered they accessed Obamas files. It could be challenging for the State Department to force them to answer questions, however. Unless they volunteer to cooperate, they would have to be served with a subpoena compelling them to testify before a grand jury.
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So...
Hillary! has a mole in State who agrees to make it look like the snooping was done by an Obama! operative.
How Rovian.
Oh my. And he was the one who jumped the gun and bashed Pres. Bush as being to blame...
This could be a case of "Rush to judgment" or if he knew it was his person he figured it wouldn't get exposed, so was smearing with malice aforethought.
Neither trait we need in a president
Glad this came out in time to be mentioned on some of the talk shows tomorrow. Some energetic higher-up sure moved quickly.
Not that the nomination fight was already down and dirty, in the mud and the blood and the beer, but this does take the edge off the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Bullfrog, er, Wright story, as well as deflecting the criticism of who was responsible.
It really might have been a Karl Rove operation. But now, nobody will ever know.
If true - what's going on here! Are Hillary & Obama playing the same game?
Wondering how McCain fits in.
Obama’s bulb is broken. He is lost.
Does Tenet Paint True Picture of Post Sept. 11?
John Brennan, former deputy executive director of the CIA; chief of staff to George Tenet; CIA station chief in the Middle East
Isn't Tenet at this same company, Analysis, as well?
John McCain is the obliging and amiable dunce here.
See my post above.
So is this TAC company running our Passport operations? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
Mr. Brennan was appointed President and CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) in McLean, VA in November 2005. Prior to joining TAC, Mr. Brennan had a distinguished 25-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency, serving in a variety of senior positions throughout the Intelligence Community. His last assignment was (interim) Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Mr. Brennan was appointed to that position, with the approval of the President, by the Director of Central Intelligence in October 2004. He served as head of the NCTC until August 2005. Mr. Brennan also served as the Director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) from 12 March 2003 until 6 December 2004. When the NCTC was formally launched in December 2004, all functions and responsibilities of the TTIC were transferred to the NCTC.
Mr. Brennan began his career as an intelligence officer in 1980 with the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations as a Career Trainee. After joining the Directorate of Intelligence in 1981, he served with the Department of State as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 1984. From 1984 to 1989, he served in a variety of analytic assignments in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis in the Directorate of Intelligence. Mr. Brennan was in charge of terrorism analysis in the DCI's Counterterrorist Center between 1990 and 1992, including during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After a management position in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, Mr. Brennan served as the CIA's daily intelligence briefer at the White House in 1994 and 1995. Mr. Brennan was the Executive Assistant to then-DDCI George Tenet from 1995 to 1996, and he served as Chief of Station in a major Middle East capital from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Brennan served as DCI Tenet's Chief of Staff from 1999 to 2001 and as Deputy Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2001 to March 2003.
In April 2007, Mr. Brennan was appointed Chairman of the Board of The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), a not-for-profit professional association of public and private sector leaders of the intelligence and national security communities.
Mr. Brennan is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations including the National Security Medal, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Director of Central Intelligence Director's Medal, and the Defense Intelligence Agency's Director's Award.
Mr. Brennan earned a BA in Political Science from Fordham University in 1977, including study at the American University of Cairo in 1975 to 1976. He received a MA in Government with a concentration in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980.
Ensign Charles Parker comes to mind!
Who will bring it up? Maybe FNC, if we're lucky.
So B.Hussein has an operative pry into his own records to make it look like Hillary hired an Obama operative to hide her own tracks!
So B.Hussein has an operative pry into his own records to make it look like Hillary hired an Obama operative to hide her own tracks, so Hussein and Clinton could blame Bush, even though Karl Rove doesn't work for the White House!
Rove, you magnificent bast**d!
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