Hillary and McCain's Passport Files Also Breached
Condi Rice struggles for answers:
At least four State Department workers pried into the supposedly secure passport files of presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, abashed officials admitted Friday in a revelation that had Condoleezza Rice promising a full investigation and telephoning the candidates to personally apologize. ....The State Department's inspector general was probing, with the Justice Department monitoring the effort, but Obama said that was not enough. He urged congressional involvement "so it's not simply an internal matter."
The company that hired the snoopers is believed to be Stanley, Inc. As to the breach of Hillary's records:
In Clinton's case, someone accessed her file last summer as part of a training session involving another State Department worker. McCormack said the violation was immediately recognized and the person was admonished. That person was not involved in the later incidents, meaning four people were involved in all.
As to what's in a passport file, it's identifying information and a list of the countries one has traveled to, not state secrets: [More...]
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