“Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations Division.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/
Who’s to say if this report was misleading or not? You? Why?
“Who’s to say if this report was misleading or not? You? Why?”
Well, it’s pretty commonly known, but look into it yourself. First, go back and read that article carefully. Notice that they don’t say that Harris had any connection to the Brennan investigation, they simply say he had been “cooperating with Federal Investigators”. He had been cooperating with them in his own case, not the Brennan case, they just failed to mention that, which caused the confusion.
Here’s his arrest report, where it spells out exactly what he was involved in, namely credit card fraud, not accessing Obama’s passport file (that was Brennan and his accomplices). It also shows that “Lieutenant” was his actual first name, and not a military rank, though the Social Security Death Index has it spelled “Leiutenant”.
http://acc-tv.com/sites/wjla/news/stories/videos/harrischargingdoc.pdf
Then, there is the follow-up article from the Washington Times, where they admit that there was no information connecting the two cases that they mentioned together in the previous article:
“The Washington Times reported in April that a State Department employee who was not identified in documents filed in U.S. District Court was implicated in a credit-card fraud scheme after 24-year-old Leiutenant Quarles Harris Jr. told federal authorities he obtained “passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State.””
“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.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/01/security-breach-threatens-passport-applicants/
Oops.. forgot to post the “money quote” from the very end of that follow-up article:
“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.”
The “Mr. McCormack” they mention is Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesperson.