Open Thread

March 22nd, 2008 10:46 AM

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: security breach at the State Department:

Two companies that provide workers for the State Department say they fired or otherwise punished those who improperly accessed the passport records of the three major presidential candidates. The security breaches touched off demands for a congressional investigation.

Oddly, one of the people involved has ties to Obama (paragraph break removed):

The third employee, who has not been fired, worked for The Analysis Corporation (TAC), which is headed by John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent who is an adviser to Mr. Obama's presidential campaign on intelligence and foreign policy. The TAC employee is the only individual to have accessed both Mr. Obama's and Mr. McCain's passport information without proper authorization, a State Department spokesman said.

What's going on here? Any thoughts?