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  • All three presidential candidates had passport files breached

    03/21/2008 9:30:52 AM PDT · by SmithL · 136 replies · 4,439+ views
    WASHINGTON -- State Department employees inappropriately examined the passport files of Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican candidate Sen. John McCain, a security breach that forced Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to apologize to Obama. Rice said Friday she apologized to Obama for a security breach in which three State Department contractors reviewed his file on three occasions earlier this year. Two of the employees were fired and a third disciplined. "I told him that I was sorry, and I told him that I myself would be very disturbed," Rice told reporters. Separately, Clinton issued a...