More Passport Files Breached

File of Beyonce Knowles Among Those Accessed

(CBS)  CBS News Investigative producer Laura Strickler wrote this story for CBSNews.com.

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Nine “high profile” passport files were accessed more than a hundred times according to a new report from the State Department's Inspector General. Officials will not reveal the list of "high profile" individuals whose passports were repeatedly accessed but CBS News has learned that one of the most frequently accessed files was that of musician Beyonce Knowles.

The authors of the report took a sample list of 150 celebrities and found 127 files were accessed a total of 4,148 times in a six year period. One high profile individual’s passport file was accessed 356 times by 77 different users. The report says it did not determine if those who accessed the passport files were authorized to do so.

The Inspector General’s report indicated the agency’s oversight of passport files had “many control weaknesses including a general lack of policies, procedures, guidance, and training". The agency was also criticized for having no standardized response or disciplinary process for employees who breach personal files.

This spring, news broke that the passport files of presidential candidates such as Senator Barack Obama (D-Il), Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) had been accessed by contractors for the State Department. In response, the Inspector General for the State Department examined how often celebrity files were accessed.

Over 20,000 federal employees and government contractors have access to 127 million passport files.

The State Department agreed with 19 of the Inspector General’s 22 recommendations.

[missingamerica]

Wonder why nobody puts two and two together...you follow the Republican mantra of "privatize government" and scandals, crimes, and corruption increases.

Strange, that Republicans can''t seem to put two and two together...

[shortestfuse]

Don''t forget that it was previously OBAMA campaign staffers who were attempting to see what was in his records. I wonder why? Are they afraid of what might be there?

[stn_sage]

And SECURITY is the issue RepubliCONS'' say is their STRENGTH!? They''ve got to be kidding us, or rather themselves! Since, we have seen absolutely no sign of any expertise on that issue from this administration!

Au contraire, their ''goof ups'' are legion! From open borders, to open ports, to test bombs being snuck into the country, to most govt depts pcs being broken into, to misrouted warheads, to missing nukes, to govt labs broken into, to missing intel, to two years of missing White House emails (wink), on and on and on! And now, more passport breaches! Holy cow!

What security?! This administration absolutely stinks when it comes to this issue. It''s pathetic! The security is so lax, you''re left wondering if it isn''t the intent of the current administration to purposively undermine the U.S. in order to set us up for some future attack!?

[toolmangler-2009]

See, Big Brother is alive and well.

[flreason]

"Don''''t forget that it was previously OBAMA campaign staffers who were attempting to see what was in his records. I wonder why? Are they afraid of what might be there?"
Posted by shortestfuse

Another piece of Republican disinformation. Have the honesty to do your homework before you post statements about a candidate.

The Truth:
One of the contract workers who accessed the information worked for Analysis Corp. The CEO of Analysis Corp. contributed to the Obama campaign. No Obama staffers were involved in the incidents.

The other two contract workers were employed by Stanley, Inc. The CEO of Stanley made contributions to numerous prominent Republican candidates, and also $1,000 to Hillary Clinton''s Presidential campaign.

http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/21/794799.aspx

[hypnotoad72]

Strange, that Republicans can''t seem to put two and two together...

Posted by ibsteve2u
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Strange, that Liberals can claim to put two and two together... but won''t fight the perceived injustice and would prefer everyone else die for them. Who are they trying to set up?

[arkajun-2009]

"The agency was also criticized for having no stamdardized response or diciplinary process for employee who breech personal files."

I have one that is very easy to understand and very easy to write down, and very easy to enact. How about,
"You''re Fired"

[piercetheval]

...Beyonce? Who wouldn''t want to access those...Ohhh...files...Ohhh...never mind!

[babooph]

I noticed ,commentors gripe about liberals & conservatives.Propagandists fooled most of them .Our founding fathers were the most left wingers of their time-conservatives are supposedly for tight spending ,no stupid wars-liberals are by meaning,open to new ideas-[none in 100 years that I can think of!]

[dnsallday]

Liberals... would prefer everyone else die for them."

Posted by hypnotoad72 at 06:22 PM : Jul
******************************************************
REPUBLICANS
*** Cheney: did not serve. Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
Tom Delay: did not serve.
Roy Blunt: did not serve.
Bill Frist: did not serve.
Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
Rick Santorum: did not serve.
Trent Lott: did not serve.
John Ashcroft: did not serve.
Jeb Bush: did not serve.
Karl Rove: did not serve.
Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. who attacked Max Cleland''''s patriotism.
Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
Vin Weber: did not serve.
Richard Perle: did not serve.
Douglas Feith: did not serve.
Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
Richard Shelby: did not serve.
Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
Christopher Cox: did not serve.
Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.

[dnsallday]

"Liberals... would prefer everyone else die for them
Posted by hypnotoad72

MORE REPUBLICANS-

George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate..
Ronald Reagan: , served in a
non- combat role making movies.
Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
Phil Gramm: did not serve.
John McCain: Vietnam POW, Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
John M. McHugh: did not serve.
JC Watts: did not serve.
Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, " although
continued in NFL for 8 years as quarterback.
Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
George Pataki: did not serve.
Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
John Engler: did not serve.
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

[dnsallday]

Liberals would rather have someone else die for them
Posted by hypnotoad72 ********************************************************PUNDITS , etc...........
Sean Hannity: did not serve.
Rush Limbaugh: did not
Bill O''''Reilly: did not serve.
Michael Savage: did not serve.
George Will: did not serve.
Chris Matthews: did not serve.
Paul Gigot: did not serve.
Bill Bennett: did not serve.
Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
John Wayne: did not serve.
Bill Kristol: did not serve.
Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
Ralph Reed: did not serve.
Michael Medved: did not serve.
Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don''''t shoot back

[dnsallday]

Liberals... would prefer everyone else die for them."

Posted by hypnotoad72 at 06:22 PM : Jul
*******************************************************DEMOCRATS:
Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; Vietnam
1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g Navy 1966-69 Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; WWII.
John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; ,
Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52;
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68;
Vietnam. Paraplegic from war injuries.
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67;,
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII;
Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76
DFCs, Bronze Stars,and Soldier''''s Medal.
Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain,
Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne,
Bill McBride:. Marine: Vietnam;
Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam,
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
Chuck Robb: Vietnam
Howell Heflin: Silver Star
George McGovern: WWII.
Bill Clinton: Did not serve.
Jimmy Carter: Navy.
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
John Glenn: WWII and Korea;
Tom Lantos: Served in WWII.

[kofiananimus]

wow, the posts by truthmatterz are some of the most amazing (and damning) posts I''ve seen in the comment section. Thank you for the time and research!

Hey "shaded" truthmatterz. Quite a few politicians and pundits are missing from your selective list. Wonder why? How about a few of the top Senate liberals: Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Robert Byrd and Russ Feingold to name a few. Oh and how could you have not included Bill Maher and Al Franken in your pundit grouping? I''ll let Alan Colmes slide since he is on Fox.

[flolake]

truthmatterz:

Your posts: Bore, bore bore...

[watcher269-2009]

Liberals... would prefer everyone else die for them."


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YUP -

George Bush - AWOL
Richard Cheney - Coward - did not serve
Condi - well she SERVES the President -
9/10 of Bush''s Cabinet - Cowards - did not serve

Yup - I''d say Democrats are COWARDs and prefer Republicans to fight their wars - If we did - Germany would be flying their flag above the White House right now -

Republicans are Cowards!

[oneworldusa]

Someone accessing records they have permissions to access is not a news story. If anything, this is about the government''s failure to protect information properly.

I used to be a contractor for a government agency and was treated as less than a second-class citizen, but did all the work the other government employees wouldn''t bother to do.

[hhroams]

HERE''S A FEW MORE REPUBLICANS WHO DID NOT SERVE

SEN. JOHN CORNYN-TEXAS
SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON-TEXAS(NOTE SHE WAS A CHEERLEADER AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS)
FMR ATTY GEN. ALBERTO GONZALES

[hhroams]

Ninety percent of the veterans who have served in teh last 100 years were Democrats, so-called liberals, they also died for freedom of this country.

In four years of active service the only Republicans I ever met were commissioned officers.

[hhroams]

The great conservative veteran war-hero(his plane was shot down) Sen. John McCain is in Mexico soliciting votes from Mexican citizens. If they cross the river and vote for him they get to stay. Thats a promise from a career politician!!

[hhroams]

**** ...and your point is that the Republicans are the leaders?


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Posted by maxify55 at 08:07 AM : Jul 04, 2008

No the point is that they stay well out of sight well hidden as much as possible. I was an NCO section leader in a communications section and only had two conversations with our officer in charge in two years- and that was before inspections only. \

College boys & academy lads dont like technical details only the big pictures!!!!

[taotxzen]

(cont)

July 11, 2004 -- Senior White House officials discuss the possibility of delaying the elections in case of a terrorist attack. Source


July 22, 2004 -- The 9/11 Commission releases their findings. While many criticize the commission for not going far enough, their report includes many examples of inaction and lack of leadership from the Bush administration. Source

July 26-29 -- Democratic Convention shows party unity and strong leadership. Kerry/Edwards provide electrifying acceptance speeches. John Kerry''s acceptance speech is praised even by some conservative analysts. Campaign appearances immediately following the convention draw larger-than-expected crowds.

August 1, 2004 -- White House Projects Highest Deficit Ever. Source

August 2, 2004 - The Department of Homeland Security raises the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas. Source

Message: BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID....

[taotxzen]

(cont)

May 19, 2004 -- Nothing but bad news about prisoner abuse in Iraq, including breaking news that the Pentagon was told about the abuses back in November. Source

Senate Armed Forces Committee holds hearings on Abu Ghraib abuses. Source

May 25, 2004 - Homeland Security issues a terror alert: Major terror attack possible this summer. Source

June 7, 2004 -- The Wall Street Journal publishes exclusive report demonstrating that the Pentagon provided legal rationales and loopholes in 2003 to use torture and methods of near-torture, and how to avoid various international treaties and US laws. Furthermore, the leaked memos suggest that they circumvent US and international laws, the US president should change the rules as they may see fit. All media outlets pick up on this explosive report. Source %u2013 Source

(cont)

[taotxzen]

(cont)

May 18, 2004 -- Colin Powell tells Meet the Press that he was deliberately mislead about WMD information. Powell''s aide tries to cut him off mid-air. Source

May 18, 2004 %u2013 Former Abu Ghraib Intel Staffer Says Army Concealed Involvement in Abu Ghraib Abuse Scandal. Source

May 19, 2004 -- Newsweek reports that President Bush''s top lawyer warned two years ago that Bush could be prosecuted for war crimes as a result of how his administration was fighting the war on terror. Source

Same day %u2013 White House stonewalls UN on papers about Halliburton%u2019s contracts in Iraq. Source

Same day %u2013 Tom Ridge testifies before 9/11 Commission on this second day of hearings in NYC. Source

Same day - The 9/11 Commission begins another round of hearings in NYC. Source

(cont)

[taotxzen]

Bush: Dangerous Gitmo Detainees Could Walk US Streets After Supreme Court Ruling

DEB RIECHMANN | July 3, 2008 11:39 PM EST | AP

WASHINGTON %u2014 The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month''s Supreme Court ruling about detainees'' legal rights. Federal appeals courts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting that happen.

Isn''t it about time (campaign season) for some ''TERROR ALERTS!!!'' Do you recall the last one?

History Lesson:

Here are just a few (4-months worth) of terror alerts that were issued leading up to the 2004 election. Amazing coincidence, pretty much all were issued at the same time negative news was being reported on the Bush Gang:

May 10, 2004 -- Bush approval rating hits lowest point (46%) %u2013 Source

(cont)

[taotxzen]

And yes I know terrorisum is real. I also know where the the terrorist that actually attacked us on 911 are hiding out, I''ll give you a hint it is not Iraq or Iran. They both have lots of oil, no bin Laden.

[frankbowers]

just for the "buzzymalarky''s" gw bush makes an ape look very smart, a chimp is so far beyond the intel. of gw bush I would be unable to give you a good example. The only thing that gw bush and cheney have to thnak God for is that it is not up to me as I would have two water boards set up in DC just to work on the two of them that alone would be enough for all americans even the buzzy malarky folks smart enough to write an article more honestly..
the best of good byes from Frank Bowers of Austin, TX

[buzzymalarky]

Wow, Did frankbuttholers just threaten the president? Looks like it to me. Secret Service... Are you listening.

[smilingez50]

The best thing that has happen to the world.

GEORGE W. BUSH

Kick the behinds Mr. President

[miles1967-2009]

McCain divorced his first wife on her proverbial sickbed. What kind of person divorces the woman who waited for him to return from the war, and concealed her own life-threatening car crash injuries for his benefit? McCain married his current millionaire heiress beer-distributor wife, 17 years his junior, one month after dumping Carol Shepp McCain, who, as Sen. McCain so gallantly put it, "was on crutches and had gained quite a bit of weight."

"In his book, The Nightingale''s Song, Robert Timberg chronicled McCain''s post-Vietnam military assignments and some of his "adulterous" behavior leading to his divorce from Carol and marriage to Cindy Hensley. "

"While Executive Officer and later as Squadron Commander McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and "engage in extra-marital affairs." Such behavior was a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates... "

You can read the whole sad story here.

http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcaindiv.htm

I don''t know how any woman could vote for this two timer and still look in the mirror every morning.

This time, instead of voting against abortion and gay marriage, and for prayer and guns (these issues will never go away) -- vote for your wallet , vote for the economy, vote for the environment, vote for jobs.

Vote Democratic 2008 -- don''t let the corporations and their Republican stooges win again

[buzzymalarky]

What is a "proverbial" sickbed. Is it a sick bed? Or is it something relating to a proverb about a sick bed? Typical left wing moron dropping thesaurus words in an attempt to elevate his moronic lack of intellectual capacity. My God you are stupid!

[swwils]

Someone needs too breach these canidates passports so they can see what countries they have frequented.Could be visiting our worst enemy on a regular basis.I am a firm believer in if you have nothing too hide then don''t worry about trivial matters.Some big dog in the NSA,or CIA or what ever agency was concerned ordered up an investigation into this ,and they will never find out who it was.God Bless America!

[tootall10142]

When thse security systems were put in place the authoritues didnt have reason to believe any one really cared what was in the files. The times present and ahead us demand more of the good to stop the bad.The authorities are on this matter im sure. they better be before the proverbial evil runs away with these peoples monies and identifacation.

[tootall10142]

WHAT REALLY GETS TO ME IS WHY DO THEY CONSIDER A CELEBERTY TO BE HIGH PROFILE?

[meganthatch]

Are you on the affected list? check you''re name www.theseriouspolice.com

[keithle1]

So they know what countries you visited. Big whoop.
Are you going back & forth to North Korea & Cuba?

[clovisbuford]

LET THEM KNOW YOU WANT HILLARY!!!!!-
Posted by JTait2 at 07:23 PM : Jul 05, 2008
This copy and paste posting is on every article on CBS..This troll must get paid by the posting ..Hillary wants debt relief from Obama,this troll wants your vote for Mccain

[docadams3]

JTait2... no more free rides for the wealthy. You need to check your facts on who the benefits go to now.

[deacon20081]

Relax if the government doesn''t know where you have been the countries you visit will tell them anyawy.