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Security Breach May Lead To Obama Natural Born Status
Source: The Right Perspective (.org)

A series of 2008 security breaches at the US State Department may indicate that someone knows Barack Obama‘s true status as a natural born citizen – and is waiting for the right time to reveal it.

The breaches, which occurred on January 9, February 21 and March 14 of 2008, were done by two “low level” contractors and another in a mid-level position with no management role. Then- State Department spokesman Sean McCormack admitted that officials only became aware of the incidents on the afternoon of March 20.

According to a CNN report of the incident, “a State Department source said passport files contain scanned images of passport applications, birth date and basic biographical information, records of passport renewal, and possibly citizenship information.”

It was shortly after this security breach that Internet rumors that questioned the “natural born” status of Barack Obama began circulating.

An investigation of the incidents revealed that all three major presidential candidates – Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain – had their passport files compromised. In addition to the the contractual employees, the investigation revealed that a State Department employee had also looked at Mrs. Clinton’s file. That individual, a passport office trainee who inadvertently breached Mrs. Clinton’s file during a training session, was “immediately admonished, and it didn’t happen again,” said McCormack.

At the time, McCormick said the breaches seemed to be “impudent curiosity” among the contract workers, who were not connected. Despite a very vocal call for a full investigation of the breaches by all three presidential campaigns, the incident was quickly forgotten.

News of the security breaches prompted a statement from then-Senator Joseph Biden, who had not yet been chosen as Obama’s running mate. Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had oversight of the Foreign Service and the passport office.

“I am deeply troubled that State Department contract employees sought access to Sen. Barack Obama’s passport files,” the statement from Biden read. “Firing or disciplining those responsible is an important first step. But we need to understand why these employees had access to this information in the first place, why they sought the information, and why it took over two months for this matter to come to light. I urge the Secretary of State to promptly refer this matter to the State Department Inspector General for investigation.”

The Washington Times reported on March 22 that the two low-level contractors who were fired worked for Stanley Inc., a 3,500-person technology firm based in Arlington that had just won a US $570 million contract to continue providing passport services to the State Department.

Although dismissed as “low-level” employees, The New York Times reports Stanley Inc. prides itself on extensive background checks for its workers. Approximately 53% of its employees have security or top secret security clearances, which means their employees didn’t just “walk in off the street and are now curious about Senator Obama’s files.”

A third contractual employee working for The Analysis Corp. (TAC), a McLean-based information firm that has helped the State Department automate the Terrorist Watchlist over the last several years, was reprimanded. TAC is headed by Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies. Brennan is also a former CIA agent.

“This individual’s actions were taken without the knowledge or direction of anyone at TAC and are wholly inconsistent with our professional and ethical standards,” the company wrote in a press statement at the time.

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