From the Huffington Post:
News broke Thursday evening that two contract employees of the State Department had been fired and a third disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama.
The senior officials declined to name who was behind the breach, and said they did not know whether the records were disseminated to other individuals. Legal analysts said that while the breaches themselves may not have been illegal, any distribution of the
information would almost certainly be a violation of privacy laws.
"That is one of the things we are obviously investigating," said Patrick F. Kennedy, head of bureau of consular affairs. "I have no reason to believe they did, but I am certainly not
going to be dismissive of what is a serious and valid question. On the basis of fast work this
afternoon [I don't believe they did]."
responded by saying security measures used to monitor records of high-profile Americans worked properly in detecting the breaches.
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