All 3 Candidate Passport files accessed

Once again our government shows it’s competence.

From the New York Times:

The State Department said on Friday that the passport files of all three presidential contenders were improperly accessed by employees and the department’s inspector general is reviewing the matter.

The revelations began Thursday night, after department officials said that Mr. Obama’s passport file had been accessed by three contract employees who did not have authorization to do so. Mr. Obama’s file was breached on three separate occasions, in January, February and March.

How can three contract employees just access this? Was it for fun? I can picture a couple of guys wanting to impress their friends by showing them they have access to passport files in the State Department.

Ms. Clinton’s passport file, Mr. McCormack said, was breached during a training session for State Department employees. The breach of Mr. McCain’s files was also revealed on Friday.

So what is in a passport file, again the New York Times answers:

Typically such files, which are maintained for all people who receive passports, include materials like passport applications and supporting identity documents. After 1978 such records were kept on microfilm, but the documents from the time covered in Mr. Clinton’s record were kept on paper. It is not known what missing pages covered, when they were removed or who removed them. Neither was it clear how the State Department determined that the material was missing.