Comments on: State Department: Candidates’ Passport Files were Breached

By: Aislinn

Aislinn — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:58:46 +0000

Why not state that the CEO of Stanley, Inc. (the other contractors) has contributed to the Clinton campaign?

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:09:19 +0000

Huh… Turns out that one of the Contracted companies involved in the breeches is headed by a foreign policy advisor to Obama…

Change, I tell you. CHANGE!!!

By: Consul-At-Arms

Consul-At-Arms — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:28:19 +0000

I’ve quoted you and linked to you here.

http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2008/03/re-state-department-candidates-passport.html

By: papertiger

papertiger — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:30:26 +0000

I am nonplussed. It seems to me that a reporter was informed of a situation, that could be twisted up to take Obama’s race relations story off the front burner, an occasion that the leftie channels were only too willing to leap at with gusto.
And sure enough, Msnbc with Keith Obamamann leading the charge, spent the entire day Thursday poking at this non story from every possible angle.

Blah. Who cares? Tomorrow we will hear report of Barry’s missing socks, complete with mug shot of the maytag repairman, and list of the alleged offending dryer model numbers.

By: tonynoboloney

tonynoboloney — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:28:02 +0000

Perusing Drudge just now, seems both contractors had some kind of ties to the Obama campaign.

By: DRJ

DRJ — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:40:08 +0000

If you read the most recent article carefully, the same person looked at Obama's and McCain's file, but not Clinton's. The only person who snooped in Clinton's file was a trainee last year who tried to access her file during training, but was immediately discovered and reprimanded. That makes it sound like it was a Clinton fan who snooped. It also sounds like the person who wasn't fired was the one who breached Obama's and McCain's files, but that's not 100% clear from the article. Finally, the article notes that firing the employees makes it difficult if not impossible to question them about the breaches, so it may be a good thing one person is still employed who has to answer questions.

By: WLS

WLS — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:02:02 +0000

kishnevi — that’s the point I was making about whether or not the person was an appointed ambassador or not. If they were the senior FSO at the embassey with no posted Ambassador, they would be in charge of the Embassey staff. Or they might have simply been the senior most career State Dept. official at an Embassy with an Ambassador.

By: kishnevi

kishnevi — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:47:23 +0000

Obama’s campaign (wasn’t it a spokesperson and not Obama himself?) was responding to the first reports, which made it seem like Obama was the only candidate that got peeked at. It sounds whiney now only because we know now that he wasn’t. I would say wait and see what all of them now say.

BTW, am I remembering correclty when I think that someone peeked at Kerry’s passport file in 2004?

And trivial correction: “senior foreign service officer” could be second in command of an embassy where the ambassador is a political appointee from outside the DOS.

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:18:31 +0000

If McCain is smart, he will very soon come out and say that this is no big deal, and that he’s not worried at all, and blah blah blah, and make Sen Obama look like a whiney little baby…

By: Foxfier

Foxfier — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:06:58 +0000

ADA– Apparently, the guy who was reprimanded did it only once; the other two have a year-long record of going back and back and back to the records.