Obama Not Alone in Passport Snooping Case

Fri, March 21, 2008 - 11:03 AM

The State Department now says passport files for Clinton, McCain and Obama all were accessed by unauthorized staff.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said this morning she apologized to Barack Obama for State Department employees wrongly looking at his passport records.

“I told him I was sorry and that I myself would be very disturbed if somebody was looking at my passports,” Rice said.

Two contract employees were fired and another was disciplined according to the department.

The Associated Press reports the State Department says the Justice Department is monitoring State's internal investigation into whether three contract workers had a political motive for looking at Obama's passport file.

--Neil Simon