More State Dept. embarassment - Hillary's passport, McCain's, accessed w/o authorization, too

Hillary Clinton’s passport was breached, too, as was McCain’s (via Memeo).

Many of the news articles about the passport scandal reference the 1992 incident involving a State Dept. official who got caught sifting through the passport records of then-candidate Bill Clinton. The clear implication from this repeated reference is that it’s ‘not unusual’ for Republicans to rifle through the private records of a political opponent, even though there is no evidence so far that any of this was politically motivated against one particular party or candidate.

I guess they’ve forgotten about the Clinton Filegate scandal, or how former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele’s (R) credit records were fraudulently obtained by two Dem researchers who worked for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which was (and still is) under the chairmanship of its Chairman, Senator Chuck Schumer. One of the researchers was even brought up on federal charges.

Just a couple more Inconvenient Truths the MSM will not be very deligent in reminding us about, for reasons I don’t have to explain. I should also note that at the time of this writing, the headlines to the stories I’m seeing about this scandal now note that McCain’s file, too, was breached, but the pictures accompanying the stories show Hillary and BO, and don’t include McCain. Hopefully this is something that will be corrected shortly.

In the meantime, this story sure doesn’t inspire confidence in the State Department – not that most of us really ever had any of the first place, considering it’s rumored to have a bunch of leftover employees from the Clinton admin.

Related: Caral Platt Liebau writes at length about the petulance of the BO campaign’s initial response to this news, something I touched on last night in an update to this post.

Lorica says:

March 21, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Ohhhh well there goes my Hitlery theory. Or does it??? – Lorica

Bachbone says:

March 21, 2008 at 1:36 pm

“…a bunch of leftover employees from the Clinton admin.” This is another matter the president bears a high responsibility for allowing to continue. Give him the benefit of any doubt about keeping them on when he took office. Perhaps he was really trying to be bipartisan and work for the good of the nation. But within a couple of months, at the outside, Democrat and RINO attempts to stifle every Bush initiative were plain to everyone except the blind. After Pelosi, Reid and Company had flung dung in his face for the umpteenth time, and after bureaucratic leaks and outright defiance of his wishes, Bush may have avoided at least half his bureaucratic-based problems had he cleaned house. But even when he tried getting rid of a few leftist lawyers (better late than never), the job was bungled. During upcoming presidential debates, some moderator might do well to ask the candidates how they intend to regain control of federal bureaucrats.