Opinion: Hillary Clinton’s passport files reportedly breached, too
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BREAKING NEWS: The folks over at CNN are reporting that Hillary Clinton‘s passport files had been breached, too, in 2007. The State Department already has fired two contract employees and reprimanded a third person for illicit peeks into Barack Obama‘s passport files.
We’ll update as warranted. There already are calls in Congress for a more complete investigation, including one by Rep. Henry Waxman. The text of the release is on the jump. But with Congress controlled by Democrats and President Bush‘s approval ratings on a par with Mississippi Valley State’s offense, watch this boil well into summer.
UPDATE: Yep, apparently John McCain’s were broken into, too. Makes it a trifecta.
-- Scott Martelle
Chairman Waxman Requests the State Department Release
the Identity of the Companies that Accessed Obama Passport File
WASHINGTON, DC — Chairman Henry A. Waxman sent the following letter to Secretary of State Rice today. The text of the letter follows:
Dear Madam Secretary:
Yesterday, Ambassador Patrick Kennedy, the Under Secretary of State for Management, confirmed that three contract employees working for two State Department contractors gained unauthorized access to the passport records of Senator Barack Obama. When Ambassador Kennedy was asked for the identities of the contract employees and the companies, however, he declined to provide them:
Question: Are you releasing the names of any of these three contractors or the companies for which they were contracting on behalf of the State Department? …
Ambassador Kennedy: In a word, no.
I am writing to request that you provide the Oversight Committee by Monday with the identities of the companies involved in these breaches. I also believe this information should be made publicly available.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee in the House of Representatives and has broad oversight jurisdiction as set forth in House Rule X.
Sincerely,
Henry A. Waxman
Chairman
