Following up on the breaking scandal involving the multiple breaches of Senator Barack Obama's passport records by State Department contract employe
March 19, 2008

Following up on the breaking scandal involving the multiple breaches of Senator Barack Obama's passport records by State Department contract employees, Dan Abrams spoke with Eric Holder, Co-Chair of Obama's campaign, as well as Joe diGenova, former U.S. Attorney who investigated a similar breach of President Clinton's passport records during his first run for president in 1992.

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The State Department is saying that Secretary of State, Condi Rice, is saying that she only learned of the breaches yesterday and as diGenova states, it is inexcusable that she wouldn't know about something this important and that it shows an incredible lack of leadership and gross negligence. DiGenova also says that even if the Inspector General does do a formal investigation, the employees who were fired cannot be called to testify. In light of these facts, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi should call for an full investigation immediately, and these employees' computers, bank and phone records should be gone over with a fine tooth comb. Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC noted that each intrusion happened within a day or so of an Obama victory - *Iowa, Wisconsin/Hawaii and Mississippi. Coincidence? We need to know who knew what, and when.

To put this into perspective, diGenova is outraged by the news of this compromise, and he's known for being a partisan hack who believes he was a victim of the White House slander machine during the Clinton administration, just happens to be married to Victoria Toensing, counsel on the impeachment case against Clinton and who testified before Congress in the Valerie Plame case, repeatedly attacked Plame and saying that she was not a covert CIA operative.

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