CNN: State Department Reports Security Breached on Obama's Passport File

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."

Shiny_Metal_Ass said:
ummmmmm

crispy said:

Ummmmmmm ... that was posted after I started the thread.
If it was online at the time I started the thread, I would have quoted it.

Thanks, though.

bald_eagle said:
Yeah, I can't imagine why people are so paranoid about all that wiretapping and stuff. No one in our government would ever misuse information, would they?

ckdexterhaven said:
...and Clinton's and McCain's.

bald_eagle said:
Yeah, I can't imagine why people are so paranoid about all that wiretapping and stuff. No one in our government would ever misuse information, would they?

ckdexterhaven said: