Comments on: The Passport Story

By: JBell/TN

JBell/TN — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:42:59 +0000

Looks more and more like Sen Obama's supporter who oversees the contract works are the ones who looked at Obama's passport files. How about that.. Hope they continue to wish for a investigation and let the chips fall where they may.....

By: davod

davod — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:22:16 +0000

I see a more straight forward reason for this crisis.

Obama has a bad week. His acolytes in the MSM are unable to staunch talk of his racist past.

A reporter asks State if Obama's passport details have been illegally accessed (No questions about other people).

Doesn't anyone see the connection - Obama's followers, working as contractors check out his passport details. Obama has a bad week and reporter ask State about the passport details.

Simple - Obama's contractor followers told the press.

Front Page story. Obama no longer the bigoted separatist racist. Blue Collar Dem's back on board (But not old white grandmothers).

Who told the reporter, and is reporter linked to the to the Dem's or Obama.

By: davod

davod — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:58:01 +0000

I see a more straight forward reason for this crisis.

Obama has a bad week. His acolytes in the MSM are unable to staunch talk of his racist past.

A reporter asks State if Obama's passport details have been illegally accessed (No questions about other people).

Doesn't anyone see the connection - Obama's followers, working as contractors, check out his passport details. Obama has a bad week and reporter ask State about the passport details.

Simple - Obama's contractor followers told the press.

Front Page story. Obama no longer the bigoted separatist racist. Blue Collar Dem's back on board (But not old white grandmothers).

Who told the reporter, and is reporter linked to the to the Dem's or Obama.

By: DL

DL — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:27:12 +0000

Let's see now. We are suppposed to catch Bin Ladin and know where these terrorist cells are located before they go off bombing things but due to America's hypersensitivity to a snooping government and profiling fears we don't. But along comes a simple nothing like a passport file (which we are willing to submit to the government in the first place) and we get all bent out of shape. Like the man on the TV says about giving out his SS number - I have nothing in my passport file that couldn't stand public scrutiny - I couldn't care less if it was breached. Gee even the language (breached) makes it blown out of proportion.

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:09:25 +0000

For the record I worked in passport processing for over a year. We had to sign stuff up the whazoo. I saw some famous people's applications come through.

You also had to pass a very strict background check. You couldn't have farted in the last five years and passed.

I got suspended for a week because in my address history I left off a PO Box I had for 6 months 5 years earlier. I worked for their contractor and was put on the general work area while it was worked out. My boss got a notice of violation level 3 (meaning something that had to be investigated but not a firable offense) she got an explanation I wrote my answer and a week later was back on passport.

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:05:47 +0000

I was just saved from a mugging by a federal worker in downtown Chicago who stopped and chased the guy so I guess Bush saves people from mugging. If you blame him for this you have to give him credit for me being saved from a mugging.

By: Nightly Ramble: Rejudging WWII, the Passport Nonsense. | BitsBlog

Nightly Ramble: Rejudging WWII, the Passport Nonsense. | BitsBlog — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:05:05 +0000

[...] Steven Taylor pretty adds some evidence to the passport thing I posted about earlier, and adds a lot of evidence that came up today, all of which falls directly into line with my original assessment. Yet another SITYS moment. [...]

By: just me

just me — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:48:50 +0000

And in this story exactly what responsibility do the "high" have?

I work in a school. There are huge issues with confidentiality, and all sorts of rules that have to be followed-especially when handling anything in written form.

If somebody screws up, that person gets written up or fired, they don't fire the principal, even though his is "higher" up the food chain.

They accessed the files, they got caught, they got fired.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:48:25 +0000

How does the State Dept "passport file" include which countries I have been to? They issued the passport when it was empty, then it is in my possession ever since. Many of the countries just stamp it with no electronic record that could be reported back. Do the countries that scan the passport report that back to the US? Why? When it expired and I sent it back to State, they returned it to me with a hole punched; do they make a copy? But I could have torn out any pages that showed a trip to Iran or whatever. Ok, so yes, every time I fly home I have to list the countries I visited on my trip, do they actually sort them and send them back to DC to put in my "file"? And if someone actually went to Libya or Cuba, they would have just not listed it. So everyone is assuming these passport files have all kinds of detailed records, but what do they really show?

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:44:36 +0000

just me... ok, the low are being held accountable. Just not the high. Does that seem like a good thing to you?

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:43:22 +0000

Floyd... If you use "chicken" in a bush analogy, well you are only going to end up one place, and that probably watching the commander do some clucking...

By: floyd

floyd — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:15:33 +0000

Anjin-san;
Different analogy, you see, the chicken represents the voter who is so distracted that..... OH,never mind, it gets a little complicated !

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:08:41 +0000

Ah, Floyd, don't you think George "I wish I could go fight in Afghanistan" who managed not to go fight in Viet Nam is a bit closer to the chicken?

By: floyd

floyd — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:05:24 +0000

Anybody notice[or care] that the same thing has happened to Clinton, & McCain??..... No? that's OK, you weren't supposed to.

'OH,samabody{sic} had to write something to right the Wright thing! Right?...
Well it wasn't the Right,so who's LEFT?

By: just me

just me — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:04:53 +0000

The problem is, that in the Bush admin, no one, low or high, is held responsible for illegal acts.

They were fired.