Keith just came on and said something about a passport file? I'm in the other room and didn't catch it. I'll put it up as soon as I know.
Seems 2 employees were fired from the State Department for accessing Obama's passport files with no reason.
Still nothing hard online, just tons of speculation from Keith and Howard Fineman. Other than the breach of his security, the worst part seems to be the lag in informing Senator Obama.
Finally, at 8:40p
Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News.
The three people who had access to Obama's passport records were contract employees of the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, NBC News has learned. The unauthorized activity concerning Obama's passport information occurred in January.
"A monitoring system was tripped when an employee accessed the records of a high-profile individual," a department official told NBC News. "When the monitoring system is tripped, we immediately seek an explanation for the records access. If the explanation is not satisfactory, the supervisor is notified."
Here is the link to the AP story.
Two words: "Michael Steele."