Breaking: Breach of Obama's Passport Information Leads to Firings at U.S. State Dept. - UPDATE
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.More here.
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."
UPDATE: 19:02 PDT: Additional coverage in The Washington Times here. -ferg
posted by Fergie @ 3/20/2008 05:39:00 PM
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