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Obama Diary A History of the Primary 03/20/2008

By Stephen C. Rose in NYC - Jul 26th, 2008 at 9:52 am EDT

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State Department Violation of Obama: FOX and CNN Drop The Ball About | Popular | Superdelegates | Predictions | Polls | GameFOX and CNN are not treating the State Department's breach of Obama's passport file as urgent news. MSNBC is.I guess we really do not have main stream media, sort of a crap shoot. Amazing. I will amsnd this as the story breaks.BREAKING NEWS
NBC News

updated 12 minutes ago

Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News.

The three people who had access to Obama's passport records were contract employees of the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, NBC News has learned. The unauthorized activity concerning Obama's passport information occurred in January.

"A monitoring system was tripped when an employee accessed the records of a high-profile individual,” a department official told NBC News. "When the monitoring system is tripped, we immediately seek an explanation for the records access. If the explanation is not satisfactory, the supervisor is notified."
Jan 9, Feb 21 and March 14. The earlier two breach persons were fired, last Friday's breacher was reprimanded.

Thanks to Keith Olbermann for breaking this.

Now Barack is appearing on Larry King.He is BEST when he stops generalizing and gets to facts of the matter -- specifics of what the economy is doing, statements about drug prices and medicare. He needs to get to these specific statements.

Nothing so far on the State Department invasion of the Barack Obama file.

MSNBC still on the case. People knew about the breaches but it may not have made its way up the chain of command. The speculation is that there was an effort to suppress the information at a lower level. A failure of management, to put it mildly.

At 9:31 Eastern FOX has noted the story. I think King on CNN was taped earlier which explains the lack of questions. The ticker notes it.

At 9:48 Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC indicates that things are not adding up. If there is no major motive like opposition research, there is most certainly gross incompetence.

Eric Holder: This needs to be looked at. Is there a cover up? Was it just an "innocent" thing?

Clearly an investigation is called for and will most likely ensue.

I am shutting down now. But I cannot resist noting that at 10:11 on CNN Anderson Cooper leveled a cheap shot at MSNBC calling its extended coverage breathless. Technically CNN dropped the ball. The least he could have done is credit MSNBC with providing the only coverage for several hours while CNN and FOX slept.

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