Re: Breach of Obama's Passport Information Leads to Firings at U.S. State Dept.

[Colin Keigher <colin () afreak ca>]

Didn't this happen to Bill Clinton before he became president also?

- Colin

Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Via MSNBC.com.
>
> [snip]
>
> 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."
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/
>
> - ferg

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