Two contract employees for the State Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic Senator Barack Obama's passport file, a spokesman said. The spokesman said the department itself detected the instances of "imprudent curiosity," which occurred separately on January 9, February 21 and March 14. He would not release the names of those who were fired and disciplined. (And why not?) Bill Burton, a spokesman for Senator Obama's presidential campaign, called for a complete investigation.
"This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government's duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes," Burton said. "This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama's passport file, for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach," he said.
The spokesman said it was not immediately clear what the contract employees may have seen in the records or what they were looking for. He said he did not know the names of the companies they worked for. The department has informed Obama's Senate office of the breach, and a personal briefing for the senator's staff was scheduled for Friday.
This is something straight out of WATERGATE! This is out and out criminal activity and you don't fire buglary suspects, you arrest them. And what a big fat lie that they don’t know what company they worked for. Is security that slack in Washington, D.C.? Do you mean to tell me that some unnamed people who work for some unknown contract company can just dig into a United States Senator’s files at will? (Contract = code for CIA or NSA). How do you know they were looking in his passport file or that they didn’t look at other personal information? Maybe Dr. Wright wasn’t that far off in his statements.
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