Is Passport-Gate an Obama Scam?

[calicat]

The CEO of the company that 'breached' security is former CIA and an Obama adviser.

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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...

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

[JeffR]

1. No.

Great question, though.

[calicat]

3. Hopefully this cozy relationship and coincidence will be investigated n/t

[JeffR]

8. Yes, I agree an investigation is needed into this whole thing.

See? We can find common ground.

[Blondbostonian]

15. I'm shocked you weren't booted out of here for your brownshirt thread

I'm hoping you do vote for McCain in the GE. I would prefer people like you on the other side.

[JeffR]

20. Hate to ask, but

what's the brownshirt thread?

[CreekDog]

2. what about the other two peeks at Obama's passport file?

in different locations on different dates?

[bhikkhu]

4. Insignificant. They don't count.

of course...

[jlake]

13. Vast Obama Conspiracy.

:tinfoilhat:

[CreekDog]

17. lol

:rofl:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. 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.

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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.

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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

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Thread number 6! Passport gate is almost certainly a RW dirty trick as I describe here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5212109

Just the source---Washington Times---should have immediately alerted everyone to that.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. a political strategy to remove Rev Wright from the front page of the News

a bandaid to stop the bleeding....but he got caught

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Didn't you start one of the other 5 threads?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. That would be "yes"

[cali]

10. in your fantasies but not in the real world where no one is suggesting

any sick little hilldroid crap like this actually happened.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Consider the possibility that not all "Hillary supporters" support Hillary

and that not all "Obama supporters" support Obama. This is an anonymous board. And Divide and Conquer is an effective tool against the Democratic Party.

[anamandujano]

21. I originally said it was to get him sympathy, added to the Wright,

Rezko and NAFTA gate. All the whore media are trying their best to let him off the hook so they would greet something like this as heaven sent, reference Keefe.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

14. Is calicat a sockpuppet? I think she is. nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

16. A kamikaze sock-puppet at that!

[grantcart]

18. funny when this broke I had a thread defending Hillary and stating it was a non issue

and now Clinton supporters are trying to game a non issue? Talk about consistently taking the low road.

[LisaL]

19. Actually DUbamas were jumping all over the place with joy,

because a TV talking head suggested Clinton person might be somehow connected to this.
And now it's a non-issue?
O'key...

[Hoof Hearted]

22. Wouldn't surprise me at all, had to keep his racist "typical white person" comment off the 24 hour

new cycle somehow, didn't he.