Passport Snooping by Government Workers


	Passport Snooping by Government Workers

Kelika

7-3-2008 11:07 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3a30a049-43cc-4b46-8bdf-771d02356e3f/D61E4A08-1192-497D-95C8-0BAB48CAB32F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html?hpid=topnews" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html?hpid=topnews" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html?hpid=topnews">Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Department+of+State?tid=informline" linkindex="150" set="yes">State Department</A> audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html?hpid=topnews"><P>
The audit, by State's inspector general, was prompted by the discovery in March that three of the department's contract workers had peeked at the private passport files of <A target="" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/o000167/" linkindex="151" set="yes">Sens. Barack Obama</A> and <A target="" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/" linkindex="152" set="yes">John McCain</A> and that a State Department trainee had examined the file of <A target="" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001041/" linkindex="153" set="yes">Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton</A>.
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Investigators found that 20,500 government workers and contractors had access to the electronic system that maintained the records. Most of them worked for the State Department or the <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Department+of+Homeland+Security?tid=informline" linkindex="155">Department of Homeland Security</A>.
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