Obama's passport records improperly accessed


  • World
  • Friday, 21 Mar 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. State Department contract workers improperly looked at Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's passport records three times this year in what his campaign called "an outrageous breach of security and privacy."

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14 of this year three contract workers all individually accessed Obama's passport records.

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