I find this interesting ...
Mr. Harris was fatally shot in Northeast Washington in April. Police at the time said they had no information linking his shooting to his involvement in the passport case.
The breach came to light in March around the same time The Times first reported that three State Department contract employees were being investigated for improperly accessing the passport data of presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Mr. McCormack said the cases are not related.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/01/security-breach-threatens-passport-applicants/
If I read it correctly, there are three different cases; the access of passport data of presidential candidates, involvement in a passport/credit card fraud ring, and murder. One and two are not related, and it is uncertain if either are linked to Harris’ murder.
One needs to wonder who Harris was working for in regard to the candidate passport breach, and if he was recruited given his involvement in the fraud ring.
I just read the very few articles from 2008.
For a employee of the State Separtment who had been involved in Passport and Credit Card Schemes there is very little mention of the political aspects of the story and not surprisingly, NO followup in 2008 or 2009.
Seems they could have been related, just different parts of the same overall job. Meaning scoping out passports for getting fraudulent CCs for “donations” to the jackal, and getting the jackal’s passport info scrubbed and fixed. Once they had people in the State Dept files to do stuff, they may have had more than one task to do.