Anyone know what this is all about? Saw it on drudgereport.com

3/20/2008 6:46:59 PM

i can not seem to get any real hits for this.

3/20/2008 7:14:00 PM

trying to draw the attention away from his association with the Rev.

I bet this is front page tommorrow.

3/20/2008 7:16:27 PM

evidently, the washington times has the story and is about to bust it wide open...

3/20/2008 7:22:19 PM

on cnn now

3/20/2008 7:27:43 PM

watch foxnews... get with the times.

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3/20/2008 7:40:59 PM

the republican daily show

3/20/2008 7:43:21 PM

Quote :

"2 fired over Obama passport file breach Third employee at State disciplined over accessing candidate’s records NBC News updated 11 minutes ago Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News. The three people who had access to Obama's passport records were contract employees of the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, NBC News has learned. The unauthorized activity concerning Obama's passport information occurred in January. "A monitoring system was tripped when an employee accessed the records of a high-profile individual,” a department official told NBC News. "When the monitoring system is tripped, we immediately seek an explanation for the records access. If the explanation is not satisfactory, the supervisor is notified." Story continues below ?advertisement Explaining why the contractors had access to the files, the official said: "The State Department uses cleared contractors to design, build and maintain our systems and cleared contract employees provide support to government employees and several steps of passport processing including data entry, file searches, customer service and quality control. "Each time an employee logs on, he or she acknowledges the records are protected by the privacy act and that they are only available on a need-to-know basis," the official added. This breaking news story will be updated. "

3/20/2008 7:45:39 PM

Quote :

"Bureau of Consular Affairs"

yeah isn't that part of the ultra secret cooler than CIA branch of the intelligence services?

or is that consular operations?

3/20/2008 8:43:59 PM