Candidate Passport Scandal!

[RocketFoot]

I'm not really sure what all the hub bub is about this, but apparently the Presidential candidates don't like their private info browsed...but they sure like to have access to ours!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/...ort/index.html

CNN) -- The State Department said Friday that all three presidential candidates' passport files were breached.

The admission comes after it was revealed Sen. Barack Obama's files had been viewed three times by contractors. One of the contractors also viewed the files of Republican Sen. John McCain, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Earlier Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton's office said that the State Department had notified it that her file had been breached in 2007.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she had apologized to Obama for the unauthorized viewing of his passport file by State Department contractors.
It was unknown Friday whether Rice had apologized to Clinton and McCain.
Two contractors were fired and a third was disciplined after they accessed Obama's file, McCormack said Thursday.

More info at the link above...

[rev214]

all three of them can pay $10 a month for lifelock.com protection and get instant notification of illegal account access...

or at least, get quicker notification than the U.S. state department will provide...

and if they join the NRA they get the first two months for free...

[Brick]

C'mon, someone better get real. Outside of your SSN what information is included on your passport application that isn't available in a telephone book, or Town Clerk's office or online if someone wanted to look? State doesn't even keep track of your existing visa's to foreign countries or your entry and departure of foreign countries either. The whole thing is BS.

[larrymeyer]

Oh Man I just reapplied today. And was trying for a diplomat passport but since I'm retired I couldn't get one had to take a regular humans one. So I won't be able to CC in other countries now as I'll have to go through customs.