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Harry Dope
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The State Department investigation of improper computer access to passport
records of three presidential candidates is focusing on one remaining
employee - a contract worker with a company headed by an adviser to the
presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama
The probe by State's inspector general will include polygraph tests for
supervisors in the passport section to find out whether the three contract
employees who accessed the records had a political motive or were part of a
political operation to obtain personal data on Mr. Obama, Sen. John McCain
or Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Two of the three contract employees had been fired before The Washington
Times first reported Thursday on security breaches involving Mr. Obama's
passport records. The furor expanded yesterday to incidents involving the
passport records of Mr. McCain and Mrs. Clinton.
The third employee, who has not been fired, worked for The Analysis
Corporation (TAC), which is headed by John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent
who is an adviser to Mr. Obama's presidential campaign on intelligence and
foreign policy.
The TAC employee is the only individual to have accessed both Mr. Obama's
and Mr. McCain's passport information without proper authorization, a State
Department spokesman said. That employee, who was not named, triggered an
electronic alarm system, officials familiar with the probe said.
records of three presidential candidates is focusing on one remaining
employee - a contract worker with a company headed by an adviser to the
presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama
The probe by State's inspector general will include polygraph tests for
supervisors in the passport section to find out whether the three contract
employees who accessed the records had a political motive or were part of a
political operation to obtain personal data on Mr. Obama, Sen. John McCain
or Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Two of the three contract employees had been fired before The Washington
Times first reported Thursday on security breaches involving Mr. Obama's
passport records. The furor expanded yesterday to incidents involving the
passport records of Mr. McCain and Mrs. Clinton.
The third employee, who has not been fired, worked for The Analysis
Corporation (TAC), which is headed by John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent
who is an adviser to Mr. Obama's presidential campaign on intelligence and
foreign policy.
The TAC employee is the only individual to have accessed both Mr. Obama's
and Mr. McCain's passport information without proper authorization, a State
Department spokesman said. That employee, who was not named, triggered an
electronic alarm system, officials familiar with the probe said.