Obama Adviser CEO of Passport Breach Company

[kpete]

Chief of firm involved in breach is Obama adviserStory Highlights
Source: John Brennan advises Barack Obama on foreign policy, intelligence issues


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign, a source said Saturday.

John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp., advises the Illinois Democrat on foreign policy and intelligence issues, the source said.

Brennan briefed the media on behalf of the campaign this month.

The executive is a former senior CIA official and former interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

He contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign in January.


He contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign in January.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/passport.files/

[anonymous171]

1. repost of a repost of a repost

[DJ13]

2. So explain the other TWO cases..........

:shrug:

[billbuckhead]

4. I thought this was the "NEW POLITICS"? It's not even a new address book!

:rofl:

[gateley]

3. Wish I had a dollar for each time this has been posted here. :-) nt

[ruggerson]

5. I have to laugh at the difference between the reaction two days ago to this story

and today.

As soon as it was revealed that it wasn't just Obama's passport that was breached, the air went out of the balloon for many.

I guess a partisan talking point and being able to demonize Hillary is more important than privacy concerns.

Secondly, if it was a Hillary advisor who ran this company, there would be thirty screaming, indignant posts about this on the front page and Drudge would have put his stupid little sirens.

[Dinger]

6. I Have Seen This Before, But I'm Too Chickenshit To Say What I Think About It Here

God, I'm a wimp.:scared:

[ruggerson]

7. Go ahead

:)

[McCamy Taylor]

8. This is the 4th thread devoted to this RNC CREEPy dirty trick. See my post here

for this stinks of 1972 Rovian/Buchanan dirty-ops against Obama.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/170

[DemBones DemBones]

9. . . .

All this sturm und drang about Hillary spying on Obama and it was an Obama donor's company that did it!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Really, I think somebody here nailed it when s/he talked about working for a travel agency and some other business where they looked up famous people in the records when they were bored. When I worked in banking, we amused ourselves by looking for funny names on the checks that were deposited. (One of our bank's customers was Long & Ready's Nursery, which was definitely the funniest business name!) You'd go nuts in those jobs if you couldn't amuse yourself somehow.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. Two Companies -- Each with ties to the respective candidates

The two companies that gained unauthorized access to Obama's passport files were Stanley Inc. and Analysis Corp., the State Department said in an e-mailed statement.

Stanley is a 3,500-person Arlington, Virginia-based company that this week won a $570 million State Department contract to continue passport services. Both the employees who accessed Obama's information in separate incidents were terminated the day the breach occurred, Stanley said yesterday in a statement."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aU6zQl1ZwPgc&refer=home


Stanley Inc's CEO, Philip Nolan, contributed $1,000 to the Clinton campaign http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=mt2dn&txtName=nolan&txtState=VA&txtCand=Clinton&txtEmploy=Stanley&txt2008=Y&Order=N

2 Fired in Passport Case With Va. Firm

By ANNE FLAHERTY – 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the two contractors fired for snooping into Barack Obama's passport records worked for a Virginia-based company called Stanley Inc.

snip>

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department employees snooped through the passport files of three presidential candidates — Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain — and the department's inspector general is investigating.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the violations of McCain and Clinton's passport files were not discovered until Friday, after officials were made aware of the unauthorized access of Obama's records and a separate search was conducted.

snip>

Mr. Obama's records were accessed without permission on three separate occasions — Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and as recently as last week, on March 14.

"Mr. McCormack declined to name the companies that employed the contractors, despite demands by a senior House Democrat that such information is in the public interest.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iFJ3vNfsH1Ul0kYvcB7RllkSx71gD8VI1SN07

Here's the video. Pay attention to the second portion.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/passport.files/index.html?eref=edition#cnnSTCVideo

[jimshoes]

11. There is some shady if not illegal goings on here

Some in January, some in February and now again in March. There has to be an investigation into what actually happened on those dates and who if anyone put the perpetrators up to it. I do not want to see anything swept under the rug before all the facts are known (if they even can be, knowing *'s justice dept) and I take no delight in one or the other's campaign being connected even remotely or tangentially, as the whole affair has a distinct rovian smell about it. We do not know if the first two instances are connected to the later one and if there have been any instances of any of the former candidates who's passport data may have been breached as well. I do not know about everyone else's balloons but mine still has a full charge of pissed off.