March 21, 2008

State Dept.: Three Federal Contractors Illegally Accessed Senator Obama's Passport Files

The State Department says it is trying to determine whether three contract workers had a political motive for looking at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's passport file. Two of the employees were fired for the security breach and the third was disciplined but is still working, the department said Thursday night. It would not release the names of those who were fired and disciplined or the names of the two companies for which they worked. The department's inspector general is investigating.

2 fired over Obama passport file breach, MSNBC, March 21, 2008.