I am going to keep it short so that we can get this entry corrected/taken down as soon as possible
Here is what Jay Newton-Small posted on The Swampland today.
http://www.time-blog.com/...
Last Thursday the Obama campaign was up in arms over the news that the Illinois senator's passport information had been breached.
"Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes,'' said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. "This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama’s passport file, and for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach.''
Well, be careful what you wish for. Turns out, one of the three people who accessed the candidate's files works for... wait for it... Obama foreign policy advisor, John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp. Brennan’s employee was the only one of the three who was not fired, merely disciplined and, CNN’s Zain Verjee reports, the unnamed employee also accessed John McCain’s files. In a separate breach, Hillary Clinton’s passport information was also breached.
The fact that it was a campaign operative is hardly surprising. As my colleague Brian Bennett notes this also happened in the 1992 election when 41’s staff tried to access Bill Clinton’s passport details. The question throughout this mini-scandal has been: what, if anything, of interest was learned. But with today’s revelation a new question arises: will Obama be forced to distance himself or fire yet another advisor for lowering themselves to "politics as usual" tactics, ie doing opposition research on McCain?
From the fact the CEO of the firm is an Obama advisor she is somehow suggesting the CEO himself ordered the employee to check the records and the Obama campaign had something to do with it.
This is despicable. Nothing in the CNN story suggests anything more than a coincidence and a "Curious" employee.
This is, at best, very poor journalism and I invite you all to react on their comments and if you find their email, email and complain.
This is the worse innuendo guilt-by-association without any proof journalism you can find.
Despicable !