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Breaking: Obama's Passport file, not secure...'Breached'

Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:16:46 PM PDT

The State Department is implicated. Someone in the Bush Administration has rummaged through his file. Two contract employees supposedly are being implicated by a Spokesman for the State Department. Apparently you are denied access unless you have a "need to know". This is on Keith currently, and Howard Fineman says "This is highly significant", and it "overshadows the other stuff we have been talking about the last few days". The breach occurred in January, just when Obama was on the rise. The two employees have been fired, and there is a investigation going on.

Say goodbye to Wright, this will shift the debate.

So, a little time has gone by and I have had a moment to think. They have talked a lot about why it took so long to notify the Obama Campaign, as a breach calls for a immediate discloser. My guess? They never planned to disclose this, any more than Nixon planned to reveal his high jinkes at the Watergate Hotel. So, the question is, why did this come out now? Especially as Obama really benefits greatly from this change in the news cycle.  

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