Flera personer har avskedats på State Department efter att ha snokat i Obamas passfil utan behörighet rapporterar NBC.
Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama ”without a need to do so,” State Department officials confirmed to NBC News.
The three people who had access to Obama’s passport records were contract employees of the department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, NBC News has learned. The unauthorized activity concerning Obama’s passport information occurred in January.
Obamas kampanjledning är upprörd:
”This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an Administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes. This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama’s passport file, for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
Uppdatering
En av personerna som snokade, tittade också på Hillary Clintons och John McCains passinfo. Det är den tredje personen som tillrättavisades, men ännu inte sparkats.
McCains kampanj reagerade:
“The U.S. government has a responsibility to respect the privacy of all Americans. It appears that privacy was breached and I expect a thorough review and a change in procedures as necessary to ensure the privacy of all passport files.”
Tidigare under dagen bad Rice Obama och Clinton om ursäkt.
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