April 5, 2008
Posted: April 5th, 2008 09:20 AM ET
The passport files of Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain were improperly accessed.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The top State Department official responsible for passport issues will be replaced after a recent controversy over contract employees snooping into passport files of the U.S. presidential candidates. The department's deputy spokesman, Tom Casey, would not draw a link between the reassignment of Ann Barrett and the violations. Casey attributed the move to normal employee turnover and not "any individual incident or set of incidents." Filed under: Barack Obama Hillary Clinton John McCain |
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