Obama Demands Probe Over Passport Breach »
Posted by: Neophile 5 months ago298 Comments Report this Story
Barack Obama's campaign tonight is demanding a full investigation of reports that his passport files at the State Department were viewed without authorization.
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capecoralM5 months ago
Sounds like a Clinton move: In a live interview on CNN's "Late Edition," Gore defended the White House's handling of the files and said a policy will soon be in place to prevent anyone there from having access to FBI materials.
"We are going to make sure new guidelines are further adhered to so something like this never happens again," Gore said from his farm in Carthage, Tennessee.
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"To the limits of my knowledge," the files did not wind up in the White House for political purposes, the vice president said. "I was sure it was some kind of bureaucratic foul-up . . . We still don't know what happened, but the wrong procedures were used."
In a separate interview on CBS' Face The Nation, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said it was "inexcusable" that White House personnel requested background files on people who worked in the Reagan and Bush administrations. But Panetta said there's no evidence that the files were misused.
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Shadowolf5 months ago
...my theory is that "They" is actually a front for ex-intel types who start rumors, then track them to find out how far and fast they spread, and how much the rumors mutate en route...supposedly located on the Kansas City Strip, "THEY" are supposedly apolitical, considering ALL politicians to be nuts...
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raats66625 months ago
But of course they are already saying that there was NOT politically motivated EVEN THOUGH the most recent access was on MARCH 14 (so THAT investigation is LESS then a week old)!
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questionseverything5 months ago
more illegal but not criminal behavior from current admin
one more thing to put on new ags list not to investigate
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questionseverything5 months ago
if we dont get paper ballots and open access to recounts before nov,we will have the same thing with next admin
blackboxvoting.org is working to save democracy and u can help http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/7...
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Aidenag5 months ago
This was most definitely politically motivated. This is the EXACT same thing that was done under the first Bush's administration, when they illegally searched Bills records to look for dirt.
Quote from a TimesUK article that just went up in regards to that ordeal:
"A similar data breach took place in 1992 when State Department officials looked up data on Bill Clinton, then a presidential candidate, in an attempt to find out information from the late 1960s, amid unfounded political campaign rumours that Mr Clinton had sought to renounce his citizenship to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. They also tried and failed to find evidence that he secretly travelled to communist countries."
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gamahuche5 months ago
He DID travel to at least 1 Communist country, so the State Dept. were incompetent. He stayed with a family in Prague and very well documented was that when he returned on an official visit in 1994, not only did he play his saxophone at Reduta Jazz Club - formerly a hub of dissidence to the Communist regime, and therefore a brilliant PR exercise, but he meet the people shown here:
http://www.uzlatehotygra.cz/hoste_e.htm
AND also the family with whom he had stayed with in Prague as a student..
Contrast the wildly unpopular visit of GWB for which the whole city was virtually locked down and for which he brought 10,000 guards..
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ETproductions5 months ago
Don't be too quick on the trigger on this.
This all happened at the lower levels among Civil Service workers playing CYA regarding contractor behavior. Political appointees weren't involved till today, and when they became aware of the breach, they did the right thing and notified Senator Obama of the security lapse.
The guilty seem to have been 3 contractors under the control of Civil Service workers, not political appointees. The Civil Service workers all had connections to the Clintons, not the Bush admin. It was those Civil Service workers who "investigated" the breeches and decided to fire two workers (putting them beyond the reach of the State Department's Inspector General) and discipline one.
Senior Management didn't hear about it till today, and then through the press. The Civil Service supervisors didn't forward their findings up the chain of command. So how did the Press hear of it? Did somebody contact a reporter trying to leak what they had found?
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bruhaha5 months ago
That would definitely be quite the irony (if it was Clinton behind it) considering it was H.W.B who did it to Clinton in 1992.
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GWHayduke5 months ago
There's a lot of red tape associated with the largest government ever assembled in the US.
That, and the McCarthy style of operating in which Cheney engages takes some extensive cleaning up before it can become public.
You know, "The dog ate my e-mails", "we dont know who leaked that information" and "I'm not a member of the Executive Branch."
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DiffeeOnline5 months ago
What the heck are they looking for? Trying to see if he's a terror threat? GIVE ME A BREAK and get out of our bizniz.
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sonofjohn5 months ago
Shades of Bush number one's passportgate...searching Gov. Clinton's overseas trips for political purposes. Seems the monitoring system, put in place to detect unauthorized access to VIP passport information, seems to have worked. The question is how was the investigation into these unauthorized access of Obama's passport info handled?
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ningyo5 months ago
i love the way everyone here immediately blames the executive for this--given the history of people who might be culpable its ONLY hillary with a record of using the FBI and state dept to ILLEGALY obtain records of clinton opponents..remember livingstone and the 1100 rebublican fbi files that dissapeared...hmmmmm..but in true libscape left loony tunnel vision it HAS to be the evil bush..my money is on hillary at the bottom of this...and in reality ...why so many trips to indonesia and tripoli etc..maybe its all innocent but obama never answers questions about any of this..he ducks and weaves..he fumfers..just answer the question hussein
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pc255 months ago
of course it's the Clintons ........look how they had Sandy Berger go into the National Archives to remove national security documents pertaining to their administration to keep them from the 9/11 commission........I find it extremely odd though that this is happening now with all the troubles his campaign is beginning to encounter........
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cherev5 months ago
"i love the way everyone here immediately blames the executive for this"
You didn't expect anything different, did you?
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pc255 months ago
it couldn't possibly be that with all the troubles starting to face him and his polling numbers in free fall it's the perfect time to play the victim now.....let's get those polling numbers up to where they were.... and what better way to do it then some nefarious right wing conspiracy or better yet shades of unauthorized removal of national security documents from the national archives by that Clinton mole Sandy Berger..... of course with his power and his connections as a US Senator he has no connections to anyone who is a supporter of his in the State Department who could do this at his behest.......no of course not........not Obama.......change you can believe in..........
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