State Department peeks at files of <i>all three</i> presidential hopefuls: Condi Apologizes
By Steve Benen Thursday Mar 20, 2008 4:50pm
The big story over night was that three State Department contractors took an inappropriate peek at Barack Obama’s passport file. Officials apologized, fired the contractors in question, and announced that an investigation would be forthcoming.
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But this afternoon we learned that the State Department’s problem is an even bigger mess.
Just hours after firing two contract employees and disciplining a third for inappropriately examining the passport file of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that her passport file was also breached in 2007.
NBC News also learned Friday that Sen. John McCain, the Republican candidate for president, had his file breached — this time by one of the same individuals who had examined Obama’s records.
If one is inclined to believe the innocuous explanation — a handful of contractors were motivated by “imprudent curiosity” — the news about Clinton and McCain doesn’t change anything. Some staffers wondered about several high-profile figures, so they took a peek. It need not have been related to the campaign at all.
If one is inclined to believe a more sinister explanation, today’s news doesn’t help. That State Department staffers sought out confidential information about the major presidential candidates starts to look more like opposition research, and less like innocent prying. Given the Bush administration’s history of politicizing non-partisan government agencies, including the State Department, there’s no reason to extend the benefit of the doubt.
John Amato: And Condi certainly never seems to get much info does she? "Not to my knowledge."
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With Condilesbian Rice on the case we can all rest easy...
Hey Condi! What do you do exactly? Fly around the world in designer suits doing absolutely nothing? Maybe you should resign. Oh wait, Bush rewards incompetence!
Why was the two people who looked at Barak's file fired?
Why did Bill Clinton endorse McCain over Obama? Isn't this the third time the Clintons have endorsed Obama?
The people deserve answers!
Sounds like another version of "show me yours and I will show you mine"
Sorry, endorsed McCain
I don't know why everyone is so surprised . . . this type of inappropriate behavior is typical of the Bush Administration.
Just think of how many phone calls have been listened in on and how many emails have been read and how many medical records have been looked into and how many files have been searched and then maybe this country will get some clue as to how corrupt this administration is.
Who are the people who got fired? Are they polical hacks? If you beleive the news, they were just curious minions. Yeah! Like I believe that! What the hell?
But she said shes sorry,, really really sorry!
I bet for taking the job she has now and being unable to ever rebuild her rep.
McCain’s ‘Passport Breach’ Reveals Strange Travel Requests
Hmmmm.
Well, it appears the administration has no choice. They must make such activities legal.
Perhaps even retroactively so.
It's what they do best.
Another APTHETIC example of the BUSHIES minimising contempitable... potentially illegal acts carried out by underlings (or third-party contractors) who disappear into oblivion only to protect THE REAL CULPRITS, who were probably acting from some office inside the White House.
I guess this is outsourcing Bush style.
What's in a passport file anyhow?
P.D. @ 8:
Agreed, and Condiliar saying first thing out of the box (like Clinton supporter Larry Johnson) that it was just a case of "curiosity" is giving the verdict before the investigation has taken place. The whole thing stinks and I hope it will not be whitewashed now that the two other candidates were brought into it. "Oh well, see, it happens to everyone!"
The contractor doing the passports , Stanley Inc., is a GOP supporter. We can look forward to this company getting retroactive immunity for their criminal activities.
Condomliza was quick to point out that the illegal search was by an equal opportunity sleuth, the better to make it seem that the breach was non-partisan. Give me a break! I can just see a Rove or a Cheney telling the plumber to be sure and dip into John McPain's file, too, so it wouldn't look like a dirty trick on Obama or Clinton alone. This smacks of the 1960's and Watergate. No wonder a bunch of high school students were arrested today for war protests on Spring Break!
The job for the appropriate oversight committee is clearly set out: Get the names of the perps and subpoena them. Ask them who told them to dip into the records. Get the FBI onto background checks based upon State Department personnel records. See what motivated these goons and who put them up to it. This may be the biggest story...or not. Inquiring minds want to know.
Not one thing is working on this site...
except maaaaybe this comment box...
CD @ 14:
What countries you've visited and, in this unconstitutional age, the people you met, &c. The State Department has ways of tracking your every move while you're abroad. Franz Kafka, where are you now that we need you?
"Spy first and apologize later" _ Condi
The story was that Obama's files were breached three times over three months, each time preceeding a significant event in this campaign. Hillary's breach was last summer, way before any real contest, if this is true. Not sure about McCain. How do we know that the statement that Hillary and McCain's files were breached is not just a smoke screen to deflect from what happened to Obama. It seems that the Obama breach is the suspecious breach. Claiming the other files were breached could be a ploy to detract. Three different people, three different times sounds like someone was really looking for something. No investigation sounds bad too. I know these people are totally incompetent, but we can't forget that they are crooked too.
The sad thing is, everytime we say to ourselves,"This is it. We might be able to do something about this Adminasration." It crashes and burns. Our politcal leaders don't have the balls.
Mug @ 18:
Yea, these videos are loading very slow.
...needs to be bitched slapped...
P.D. @ 8:
They worked for a contractor. The contracting company was just named on tv. Sorry I don't remember what it was. The contracting company, according to the tv, was originally hired to print passports during the time when the state dept was so far behind when that new law took effect requiring us to get passports when we went to Mexico and Canada or wherever it was.
My question is were security checks done on these people who would have the ability to get into these files?
Condi's apology was directed at Bush and the GOP....for getting caught.
*sigh*
I guess this is still Hillary's fault SOME how.
Jesus, The incompetence is so wide spread! The Bush Adminastration pretty much crapped on everything the got their hands on. What a mess!
Filthy republicans bitch about government not working, and we should point to people like Rice as the reason why.
CONTRACTORS having access to confidential information? Not once, but three different times?
This is how the crud in that party routinely operates. Stinking liars, all of them.
I'm not even convinced that Grampa's files were looked at. Since he's part of their inner circle, perhaps they felt the public would swallow this story if Grampa were included (wink, wink).
I don't believe anything that comes from this filthy republican government.
I ask you, what exactly has Condoleeza done during her tenure? I can't think of anything. Can you? Squat. Nothin'. (Maybe she's bought a lot of bags-n-boots, but... )
Finally snooping on real terrorists.
"The United States of America values everyone's privacy and corrective action should be taken".
John McBraindead
Right John. You even believe your own lies now eh?
Sheesh beam me up scotty.
Edwin Hussein (not a scary black Reverend) @ 30:
She did Bush, and it pissed Pickles off.
[[[3 Mister Anderson Says]]]: Why was the two people who looked at Barak’s file fired?
Why did Bill Clinton endorse McCain over Obama? Isn’t this the third time the Clintons have endorsed Obama?
The people deserve answers!
====>>But not for Iraq, the $9 trillion debt, illegal NSA spying, torture... etc., etc., etc.. Is that what your beef is? Did Clinton endorse McCain?
Geez, the list is so exhaustive, no one can bear to type it all out again and again and again for you wingnuts. Open your eyes, read something other than cereal boxes (on the crapper).
the most telling slip up in the story that i can see it, if these lower ranking employees weere merely "curious" all well and good. i find it highly unlikly that an employees curiosity wouldn't target onto a person's own boss/manager, in this case cindi rice herself. the fact that *none* of the employees in question who had roaming eyes were tempted by condi's right off the bat indicates to me they weren't just acting as innocent curious employees but that they had a targeted more sinister motive.
Wow, I'm about to sound like a total conspiracy theorist, but...
How convenient that it turns out Hillary and McCain's passports were breached too. I wouldn't be surprised if they expanded the scandal on purpose, just so it wouldn't look like more illegal Republican tactics. Better to have it look like a bout of major incompetence than specifically targeted at someone or a group ala Watergate. If this was in 2007 why didn't they also look at Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani or John Edwards' passports? If I recall, all three were considered to have a chance at the nomination in 2007...
Ed @ 31:
LOL!!!!
Good One!!!!
Well, if someone is actually getting caught and fired for spying, that would be a first. This is a good thing. I think.
why should anyone be surprised that the whitehouse has a hand
in this, they have politicized everything. and again they get
caught with their hand in the cookie jar. this whole bushco
administration is just one large sack of slimy shit.
IMPEACH--BUSH-CHENEY-CONDI-GONZALES NOW !!!!
By firing the contract employees the department of state has lost the ability to question them regarding this act. Now, the employees are not obligated to 'report' to the department of state.
Given the number of lawyers in Washington, this was intentional and is part of a cover up.
But the public will miss this I suspect - and bloggers dont read these posts.
So instead of "Obama's passport files breached" we have "many passport files breached".
Why were the only breaches "discovered" only after Obama's was made public?
I think it's suspicious that suddenly today they announce all 3 candiates were spied on. I don't believe it. I think by pulling all 3 in it makes it not seem like what it is...Spying on your political enemies. They've been doing it the whole time and are getting a little sloppy...it's just a matter of time before it all blows up. And the scary thing is the "they" might just be in the Clinton camp.
anon @ 40:
Excellent point. Keep them on the payroll, "fire" them, and tell them if they talk they will be prosecuted
Jon Killjoy @ 36:
hmmm... are you saying the lying corrupt former head of the NSA would allow something like this to go on under her asstoot guidance.
Government employees would NEVER abuse the ill-gotten powers that they have to delve into our private lives.
CD @ 14:
When the Department of Homeland Security does a background check when you apply for a passport, all of the information is put into a file.
"By firing the contract employees the department of state has lost the ability to question them regarding this act. Now, the employees are not obligated to ‘report’ to the department of state."
Isn't out sourcing and privatization great!!
Here's what you'll probably find in a passport file, in addition to the places you've visited:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/79955.pdf
The info isn't too extensive, however it does have your SS# as well as your parent's names. Also, interesting article here on Time.com...evidently lots of folks have access to your passport info....wonderful
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1724759,00.html?cnn=yes
Well, seems to me this "oh wait, all THREE candidates had their files breached" is a helluva coverup to ensure Obama doesn't get any 'sympathy' headway from this ---- mebets about half what I own that mkkklain's and shillary's files weren't touched.
Complete crap.
Notice how we the everyday peons are not protected from having our private info looked into by government employees, but the rich and famous have (figuratively) alarm bells ringing when their private data is analyzed?
2 comments:
1. I believe the snooping of McCain (and possibly clinton) was just a smokescreen to disguise the real intent of the illegal search - Obama. It makes sense that the Repubs look at Obama's background as something that may produce a smoking gun and are doing anything to find something on him.
2. Stanley, Inc (the contractor) unbelievably landed a $570 million dollar new contract this week (check Stanley's website - press releases) for more work on Passports. Why would the State Dept extend a new contract under the revelations of passport breach of security. Should not there have been a review of Stanley before this huge contract was given this week.
the incompetence continues to disgust me
Fire a department head or file criminal charges against the individuals who breached our nation's security measures! For an adminstration that relies on reasons of "national security" to prevent public access and the access of congressional oversight committees to government records and files, their State Department certainly doesn't seem to take our nation's security very seriously. Nor do they seem competent enough to effectively protect it. Why, after security was breached and Clinton's passport files were accessed in 2007, was it still possible for Obama's and McCains passport files to be accessed in 2008? Why did the Bush adminstration wait until now to inform Mr. Obama that security to his passport records had been breached?
Sorry... but "sorry" isn't good enough.
This stinks to high heaven.
I believe that all three pinheads who had their information breached voted for the Patriot Act.
Poetic justice.
Otay @ 50:
As "PeterJames" said @#54 - all three of these chumps voted for the patriot act and got what they deserved.
If the reason for discovering the "peeks" at Sen. Obama's passport information was a new software program recently installed that warned of unauthorized entry, how is it known that McCain's and Clinton's files were rifled through, too, other than Condoleeza's word on it?
evenplayingfield @ 51:
I beg to differ. Several of Stanley's employees were very competent at doing exactly what the Repugs wanted them to do (I'm willing to bet they did it to provide political dirt on Obama). Therefore, Stanley is virtually assured good contract standing from now on.
I have a great deal of difficulty believing the part about someone looking at McCain's file.
That part would was probably added to make it seem more like just idle curiosity.Surely a FOI request would reveal who these contractors worked for and how that contract was awarded.
Anyone want to bet it was a no bid Homeland security contract?
IMO the last breach was intentionally done to avoid making it look partisan before the story was leaked.
- The guy who committed the last breach also looked at McCain's records "out of curiousity"
- The guy who committed the last breach was just disciplined and not fired
WHAT A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE?
March 18 , 2008
Stanley Awarded $570 Million Contract to Continue Support of Passport Program
http://investor.stanleyassociates.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=198762&p=irol-news...
Hillary Clinton did it.
Phoenix Justice @ 46:
Everything in the files of presidential and any elected office should be public knowledge, except that which may harm someone other than the candidate. We, as informed citizens, need to know as much as possible about who we are putting into positions of power over us. We can not trust what we are told by the media or the candidates themselves.
Make the files public. We need to know about these characters and their character or lack there of.
This smells big time of a coverup. "oh it also happened to McCain and Clinton also-the parties involved have been disciplined, nothing to see here, move along"
Democrats in Congress better demand an impartial investigation on this one and move quickly before evidence can be destroyed. This should be absolutely unacceptable in American politics. And if this invasion of privacy can be done to U.S. Senators, then what hope has the private citizen of privacy and rule of law?
Seriously, what F$&*ing country are we living in? It becomes more like the old Soviet Union with each passing day.
MM
Why should the public know a political candidate's Social Security number or the names of their parents?
GC @ 24:
who cares... has baseball started yet or even better is is it 09...
better stary buting euros
or
get ready for non elections 908
:)
anneyhussein @ 64:
Obviously, the public doesn't need to know a political candidate's Social Security number. The names of a candidates parents can be found in many other places. What needs to be public is anything that the candidates might want to keep secret, such as anything that might question their integrity or character. Cross referencing this information with what they might have published as the truth may reveal deception and other fishy activities.
Heckuva job, Condi!!
What I haven't seen are dates for the McClinton peaks. What is the timeline on them and who's to say they weren't just done after the fact to try and throw the trail?
Once again, Condomhead Rice, shows the world why she is considered one of the smartest women in the US. Does nothing, gets paid for it.
Agent Hussein Provocateur @ 68:
Reports said Rice told Hillary in a telephone call that her information was spied on some time in 2007.
Somebody Snooped
Well the information seems to be turning up in the public domain. Apparently John McCain's social security number is 3.
abarts @ 27:
Gosh, somebody gets a flat tire and it's Hillary's fault. Jeebus Cripes!
Look how the Obamabots ate this story up, even Keith Olberman, snidely implying that this was Clinton's Watergate. They owe her an apology.
Personally, I don't have a problem with their passport files being looked at and neither should they. They are presidential candidates and should expect scrutiny. Besides, isn't it always in the news when one of them travels somewhere? What makes me angry is that they are so shocked that this could happen. Well, Duh! What kind of security lapses have we NOT had under this administration? Now they know how the rest of America feels knowing that the telcom companies aided in the illegal spying of innocent American's. What I find amusing is that McCain's was also looked at. Maybe this is a wake up call to whomever will become our next president that illegally spying (and that's essentially what occurred) on the actions, phone calls, e-mails, etc., of any American without cause should not and will not be tolerated.
I actually believe this is an isolated incident by three individuals. no conspiracy theory... other than this administration's and this current business climate's tendency to embrace outsourcing.
when a company hires someone from another company to perform a service, that contractor/temp does not have a vested interest in his/her customer's success and peace of mind.
3 snoopy contractors - probably underpaid and without benefits, reporting to full-time-employee government workers in the same building - probably uninvited to Christmas parties, probably not provided bonuses or annual cost of living adjustments - 3 people who honestly have no reason to really "give a fuck" as it were, about the sensitivity of their position - acted without discretion.
this should surprise no one. this is why outsourcing needs to go away!
burnt @ 74:
I would generally agree. However, it is harder to fire a government employee. Government by its very nature is inefficient, so the job can usually be done for less money, with more competence, and with more accountability by subcontracting out much of the grunt work.
hey ya'll..Candy said she was sorry and all....jeez, lighten up
P.D. @ 28:
When you think about it... isn't the Republican goal to show that big government doesn't work?
Media Muncher @ 75:
Bull. Shit.
The way government contracts out work has nothing to do with the competence or competitiveness of the company. I work for government, and what my group does is efficient, run by highly-degreed individuals. And without the money-grabbing profit motive. So to say that "government by its very nature is inefficient" is just another ignorant over-generalization.
Otay @ 78:
No argument there. My Province went through that privatization Bullshit (still is) and every service or job that the government was doing, private contractors now cost MORE and are not as competent as they pretend.
Boy oh boy, did I ever dig up a song that the lyrics fit Condimonium and Bush perfectly. Read the lyrics:
"Fake It"
Who's to know if your soul will fade at all
The one you sold to fool the world
You lost your self-esteem along the way
Yeah
[Chorus:]
Good god you're coming up with reasons
Good god you're dragging it out
Good god it's the changing of the seasons
I feel so raped
So follow me down
And just fake it if you're out of direction
Fake it if you don't belong here
Fake it if you feel like affection
Woah you're such a fucking hypocrite
And you should know that the lies won't hide your flaws
No sense in hiding all of yours
You gave up on your dreams along the way
Yeah
[Chorus]
Whoah
Whoah
I can fake with the best of anyone
I can fake with the best of em all
I can fake with the best of anyone
I can fake it all
Who's to know if your soul will fade at all
The one you sold to fool the world
You lost your self-esteem along the way
Yeah
[Chorus]
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 79:
Sorry to hear that. I thought Canadians were a little wiser than we are concerning corporations.
lol seriously? I worked for the Food Stamp office for a year and a half. fucking incompetent. and lazy. I was in I.T., but supporting the caseworkers. had to intermittently man the front desk. I can't tell you how many caseworkers would NEVER pick up their phone. or respond to emails. or pages.
I think its why we have so many people abusing the system in the first place. the caseworkers' managers have a vested in keeping a large caseload.
my I.T. mentor used to jokingly say that a state employees' salary was directly proportional to the size of her ass, lol.
ya man, no offense and I'm sure you might personally care about your job, but I took a private sector job, just so I could be surrounded by employees actually scared about getting fired. innovators. proactivity. good people. we might not have the credentials that a lot of public employees have, but don't forget - those degrees don't mean you're smart, it just means you like to study a lot. ;)
so anyway - like I said earlier - you have "temp" workers making shit wages, not getting health care, not getting decent hourly wages, not getting bonuses or wage increases, not getting sick days, getting stiffed on "holidays" that the Fed observes but the private sector doesn't - working for 2, 3, 4 years as a "temp" - surrounded by, very likely, a lot of lazy ass bureaucrats - they gave those temps the "root" password because they were lazy - and the temps were probably like "well fuck it... lets get nosy so we have something to chat about on the long bus ride home."
thats all that happened. so, in conclusion, again, fuck outsourcing. I say, if a company/agency has a need for a position to be filled for over a year, fill the damn position with someone with a vested interest in that company/agency's success. especially public sector positions.
She is still #1..."do nothing Sec of State" in my book.
There is nothing this loser can do...NADA. She has been Sec of State how many years? And can we count her accomplishments on one hand?....one finger....no fingers?? She has been an abysmal failure. She fits in perfectly with this administration. How did they ever find someone as big a loser as the commander in briefs himself?
nohohusseinbear @ 63:
"Preznit Bush, PUT UP THAT WALL!! (or virtual fence or whatever it is)"
burnt @ 82:
That's just your group that was fucking incompetent and lazy. And your group that had no idea what to do with their education.
I work with people who use their education on a day-to-day basis. Sorry it sucks to be you.
Gee , what a frigging surprise , I am just shocked .
this just makes me want to go out and picket for telecom immunity.
burnt @ 82:
yeah!
Would'nt the Secret service be notified if a breach happened to a presidential candidate? And why did it take so frigging long to notify obama. I heard they have a quick response system in place for the security of any breach.
Schlomo @ 49:
ditto!
stymie @ 89:
the system only works if you're a republican
Edwin Hussein (not a scary black Reverend) @ 30:
Well for one thing, she managed to take two completely empty platitudes, strung them together and totally confused everybody in that room:
Jaysus Christ, what horse-shit! That 'ho spreads more fertilizer that Massey-Ferguson.
Did she also apologize for being a War Criminal?
*
P.D. @ 2:
While wearing seven THOUSAND dollar shoes.
*
I can't hardly believe it's so easy to get this information. What are the chain of commands?
TemporarilyContract employees shouldn't be hired to do sensitive the people shouldn't be usedAny hacker worth its weight can obtain information from this antiquated system. And without leaving any footprints. All of them should be fired from the top down. The IT manager should be fired also.
evenplayingfield @ 51:
You Are So Right On
Your explanation is what I was thinking. The Republicans could not stand another corruption blow. The John McCain breach was created to control any blow back from the two Democratic breaches. I know many will be looking for this hypothesis and you and I are two to that many. This thing stinks and the Republicans are on their way to extinction.
A Word About Polls
John McCain's poll numbers have been exaggerated. Any three year old can do the math by looking at every state primary and see the Democrats second best covers all the Republicans voters. CNN, Gallup, USA, Zogby have been using a flooding tactic. By presenting polls with similar numbers, they are making the general election a horse race. It is not. When these polls are not enough, they release more propaganda by matching the polls up as in CNN/Gallup or Gallup/USA. The unaffected polls seem to be SurveyUSA and a few polls associated with universities. Welcome to the right-wing media. The true media bias.
Joseph
Oh yeah, I don't believe that mcsnowball and hillary's files were breached.
I know this is silly. What's that thingy. Big penis and scrotum? It's not the flag, stars and stripes, and all. Then again, neither is it a National Inquirer. Titillations need to know.
This is not the first time this happened. Bill Clinton's passport was illegally looked at when he was running for president. This was not some new anti-Obama thing.
tek @ 61:
You're absolutely right.
In today's New York Times there is a photograph on the front page of Hillary Clinton herself as she
was pushing herself through a window in the passport office in Washington, D.C.
Oh s#!&! We got caught! Hurry, make it look like they we were doing it on everybody... Hillary didn't have someone in the State Dept. that could be traced... did she?
dadams @ 39:
Ditto, this apology is not enough and just this petty dictator trying to get away with high crimes yet again. Impeach the bastard, it is time.
tHeGaMeHusseinOfLiFe @ 97:
Spoken like a true Republican who wants to make sure the Democrats don't come together one single thing.
Joseph @ 103:
From HuffPo
Democrats had better come together, under Hillary, or else...
Nixon had his plumbers; Bush has Condomliza.
Well this is sure the land of the free. Free to read anyones emails, listen to phone calls
check on your travel anywhere in the world, depending of course if you work for Bush.
Anyone who honestly believes a handful of contractors were motivated by “imprudent curiosity” should climb back aboard their spacecraft and return to whatever planet they came from. Who is in charge of this particular arm of the Government? Not Chaney surely?
I rest my case.
I don't believe the McCain passport search claim at all. It's a standard republican trick: when caught doing something make up some story about how it's happening to people on both sides of the aisle, equal opportunity slime balling. Actually the follow up rarely shows that to be the case. Usually, 99.99% of the time, it turns out to be a smoke screen that keeps the easily led, uncrritical masses, and republican base hot heads, all a twitter about how unfair it all is, and gives them endless ammunition to confuse the fundamental facts.
And the fundamental facts are that the republican party and the business interest it represents are a bunch of power mad fools who will stop at nothing to ensure they, and they alone, get both the political and the financial control of all of the worlds resources.
Get Real
Stop trying to make Hillary Clinton into a Republican. I recall on one of Chris Matthews' shows he laughed at the usual self destructive nature of the Democratic Party. That self destructive nature is strong on this site and on this page. Fueled by hatred of Hillary Clinton and the god like praise of Barack Obama, there is ignorance to unity after the primaries. We must unite to win the fight. Every time I read a comment fueled with hatred for one of the Democratic nominees, it is becoming obvious to me the Republicans are at the core of this divide.
A true Democrat knows we have to come together in November to whip the Republicans. That is how I know we have hidden Republicans stroking the flames of divide. After any calm, there is a reintroduction of the very thing dangering unity. Check it out for yourself. I am sure, with close observation, you can pick up on the 24/7 threat to keep Republicans in White House.
Drop the Republican talking points and in its place insert the biggest weapon the Democrats have: Unity. When the Republicans see it coming, I guarantee it will scare the shit of them, John McCain included.
Joseph
the "hillary" incident was during a training session that didn't get past first base because the supervisor stopped it. the mccain insident is... well... ----okay, there was a leak (someone with a conscience) and the story went huge!
introducing the mccain, hillary dynamics was damage control clear and simple. ---it worked. unfortunately.
Joseph @ 108:
yer right!
2fargone @ 109:
considering the source, I believe nothing, except that Obama will have his foreign itinerary become an election issue.
This whole issue is so much CRAP!
If anyone believes that there is any privacy in passport information they're living in the dark ages. The bloody U.S. government is accessing everyone's passport data. The so-called U.S. Patriot Act II allows all of this s**t.
And Obama and Clinton both voted for it!
It's hilarious that citizens care about the issue when it comes down to their favorite politicians but they care nothing about it when it comes down to average citizens. You people are being had and you don't even recognize it!
The rest of the world is laughing at you and your gullibility! How pathetic you all are!
Get her resignation now - no National Security blanket to protect lies and spin.
she stated that the matter would be investigated by the
inspector general...... there is no inspector general.....
the prior I.G. resigned in disgrace for protecting his
brother's company from investigations.
his brother sat on the board of Blackwater
the krongard brothers; 'cookie' and 'buzzy', seriously
you can't make this stuff up
Yet another breach. And another reminder that the millions of voters who put Bush into office, twice, are clueless.
When all is said and done (and the sooner the better), Bush will go down in history as the head puppet in the most corrupt and criminal administration of all time. Even worse than Nixon's. And that is not easy to do. Bush and company is an embarrassment. Is it any wonder that foreign leaders probably scratch their heads behind closed doors when they see and hear Bush attempt to complete a coherent sentence that is not written out for him? And people wonder why our image around the world is at an all time low. And getting worse as we speak.
Visit me at my new blog site and let us begin a dialogue to get this country back on track.
Hurry up november 2008.
Otay @ 57:
I'm having a hard time understanding how anyone who's been paying attention for the past 8 years can possibly still be talking about "incompetence" in the Cheney/Bush administration!!??! Nothing that has occurred (okay, very few things) has been because of incompetence. All of these "errors," "mistakes," and "oversights" have been quite intentionally perpetrated.
GWBush's MO for his whole life has been to do whatever he thinks he can get away with and, if he gets caught, he just disclaims involvement, shirks responsibility, briefly apologizes, and lets other take the blame. Why change what works? The American citizenry are too distracted to cleraly see what is going on, and these sociopaths are taking full advantage. One day very soon, I fear, we'll all wake up to find our nation is owned lock, stock and barrel by those who are working to install the New World Order.
No, this little dust-up about the passport files is all a bunch of crap. The repugs tried to dig into Obama's files to find some scrap of crap they could use to blackmail him or emabrrasss him. When the got caught, they just made up the stuff about the breachs of the Clinton and McCain files - that way, according to the GWB method - no harm, no foul. Excuse me, I'm going to puke now...........
Bravo! I love it when someone finally points out the extremely obvious facts. By breaching all three candidate's files the repug crime machine can make this look like a perfectly harmless act of voyeurism. When in reality it is a criminal act aimed directly at Obama. I think the Senator should start asking the IRS, FBI and NSA what other contractors have been "peeking" at his personal records.
And for those of you who think Chimpy is inept, think again. I've been saying for 7 years that he gets exactly what his cooperate and repug buddies want out of a situation. He's not incompetent, he's a traitor who would has already sold this country out and is writing his get out of jail free cards as we speak.
That's right, have the "contractors" do your dirty work for you, just as in Iraq, because the professional career people in the State Dept. most likely would not go along with the illegalities.
Condi should resign--now.
fiver @ 104:
Your research skills are as biased & deficient as KO's. She started her career under Reagan. You remember Reagan, Barack's fave? KO owes the Clintons, especially Hillary, a major apology for floating that smear without checking it out first. But he does that alot these days. He was practicallly foaming at the mouth about this bit of partial info which he bellowed just HAD to be another Watergate! Watergate! Watergate! How pathetic.
Maka @ 113:
What would he say about National Security blankets?
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It seems funny when they open Hillary & McCains Pass Port you heared nothing... But Obama thats all they talk about... If it was Hillary People that did it they would say that they did it to fix the election... But since it was Obama's side they think nothing about it!!!
Why is it OK for the Obama People to do are say anything... But if the Clintons say anything about Obama... They make like they were saying bad things about him...
To me listen to sermons for 6 years against Whites & this Country is 10 times worse than anything Bill Clinton has said again Obama... The things that Obama said about Reagan is worse than anything that Bill Clinton has said... What Obama said about shes never been so proud in her life about her husband running for president.. Is the biggest insult for anyone that ever did anything for this Country...
I listen to Martin Kings speech and it was 10 times better than anything Obama has ever said... John F. Kenendy's Speech was a lot better than Obama's... All I ever hear is Obama talking about his Family are what People have told him... At least Hillary Clinton talks about the issues!!!
It's to bad that the news only put on what Bill Clinton had to say about Obama rather than play Hillary what she has to say to the People... They sure do it for Obama & McCain... The News for munths now has talked mostly of Obama & McCain and they are the ones that act lik Hillary already lost... If Obana wins over Hilly... He will lose over McCain and it will be the CNN & MSNBC Fault... Because neither ever have anything good to say about the Clintons...
Interesting that the company's CEO works for Obama. Maybe they just made it up...3 times Obama, 1 time the rest so people don't suspect who?
Angela @ 122:
So much for BO playing the victim of conspiracy anymore. I'm sure he & his braintrust had no idea until just now that their campaign is solidly connected to one of the two firms involved:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/passport.files/index.html
I recall Obama in his fury over the passport invasion, yelling "Whoever did this should be fired" Woops! Did he fire his campaign worker? Now, I guess it was just curiousity. He can stay. As usual, he put his foot in his wonderful Speech giving mouth.l
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