“Passport-gate 2008″-Presidential Candidates’ Passport Files Compromised; Obama Wants Congressional Probe

Posted on March 21, 2008
Filed Under Journalism, commentary |

Talk about over reactions! Congress is now being asked to investigate how and why three contract State Department employees managed to peak at the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

First of all, if anyone seriously believes that people within the State Department don’t manage ,from time to time, to look into the passport files of political leaders and celebrities, they are not living in this 21st century world.

The temptation for low level government types, outside contractors included, to plant their noses where they clearly do not belong, is far too great. The only thing different this time is they got caught.

And, the fact that it was the State Department that caught it and not some newspaper expose should actually make people feel more at ease.

Obama Wants More

Perhaps sensing another Watergate here–or trying to create one?–Sen. Obama is calling for a Congressional investigation. The Justice Department is already monitoring and the State Department’s independent inspector general is investigating.

Based on the revealations thus far, it would be an enormous waste of taxpayers’ money to also launch a Congressional probe.

More important

then the great candidate passport scandal of 2008 (by the way, there is very little information in a passport file that would be of much use to anyone) is the fact that Google and Yahoo and MSN and others are busy collecting all sorts of really important information on ALL Americans every time someone goes on-line.

Seems to me, if Congress is going to look into anything, it should be that!

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