Friday, July 4, 2008

Star Gazing at the State Department

Do you think they looked at Ben and Matt's?

Or were they looking
here?

WHO CARES?

What I want to know is, DO I HAVE a
FILE?

"Celebrity passports draw illicit interest

A report by the inspector general of the State Department, released in part yesterday, found that employees might have improperly peeked into the passport files of wealthy people and celebrities far more often than previously believed. State Department officials said that five contract employees had been fired and that others are under review. The inquiry was started after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice apologized in March to three presidential candidates - Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama - after an internal audit showed their passport files had been viewed by employees for no authorized purpose. The new report was based on a selection investigators made of the files of 150 prominent politicians, athletes, and entertainers. Investigators found that 127 of them had been viewed, some multiple times. (New York Times News Service)."