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Offline Wretched Excess

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2 fired over Obama passport file breach
« on: March 20, 2008, 08:08:12 PM »
2 fired over Obama passport file breach
Third employee at State disciplined over accessing candidate’s records

Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's passport file.

Spokesman Sean McCormack Thursday night confirmed instances of what he called "imprudent curiosity" by the State Department employees.

McCormack said the department itself detected the breaches, which occurred separately on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14.

The three people who had access to Obama's passport records were contract employees of the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, NBC News reported.

A senior official told NBC News there was "no political motivation" to the incidents, adding that the three were low-level contract employees doing administrative work and accessed Obama's records out of "curiosity." 

This official told NBC News that he does not believe any of the information was sent anywhere.

A spokesman for Obama's presidential campaign called for a complete investigation. The spokesman, Bill Burton, also demanded to know who looked at the file and why, and why the State Department did not reveal details of the security breach until now.

Monitoring systems are tripped when an employee accesses the records of the 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."

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.

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jeez. :thatsright:

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Re: 2 fired over Obama passport file breach
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2008, 08:10:09 PM »
Clinton?

just saying...
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Re: 2 fired over Obama passport file breach
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2008, 08:31:52 PM »
DU is in a all-tizzy over this.  It's bigger than Watergate!  This puts Rev. Wright to bed!   This insures Obama the White House!  This ends the Bush administration!  Barak and Michelle should just go ahead an move into the White House this weekend.  This is the end!!!  This is the beginning!!!! 
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Re: 2 fired over Obama passport file breach
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2008, 08:41:41 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on March 20, 2008, 08:31:52 PM
DU is in a all-tizzy over this.  It's bigger than Watergate!  This puts Rev. Wright to bed!   This insures Obama the White House!  This ends the Bush administration!  Barak and Michelle should just go ahead an move into the White House this weekend.  This is the end!!!  This is the beginning!!!! 

I believe I've heard it called a DUmpgasm.  :lmao:
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Re: 2 fired over Obama passport file breach
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2008, 08:49:29 PM »
MSNBC was going crazy with this as well - they sounded like moonbats in batshit. 
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Re: 2 fired over Obama passport file breach
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2008, 09:04:40 PM »
So what could possibly even be in his passport file that's not already public record? I'm sure they were just lookie-loos and they deserve to be reprimanded but I don't get what the DUmp is in such a tizzy over.

They certainly didn't get into a tizzy when Democrat operatives stole Micheal Steele's credit report. I guess it's because he had an "R" by his name. And he's all black - unlike Barackstar! :-)
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Re: 2 fired over Obama passport file breach
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2008, 05:23:10 AM »
It's HuffPo so treat with caution but ...

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Maura Harty: State Department Official In Charge During Two Of The Breaches An Ambassador Under Clinton
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After the news broke Thursday that two employees of the State Department had been fired and a third disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama, MSNBC noted a Clinton connection to the story. The network reported that Maura Harty, the State Department official in charge of the Bureau Of Consular Affairs during the first two breaches of Obama's passport, had served as an ambassador under Bill Clinton.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/21/maura-harty-state-depart_n_92693.html
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