It looks like the Obamessiah’s caught another break. Just when things were starting to get bad for him because of his long, long association with an avowed racist and his anti-Semitic church, the story comes along that a couple low-level administrative types in the State Department were fired and one was disciplined for accessing Obama’s passport records.
This comes at a great time for Obama as there’s a story today that his close buddy Jeremiah Wright is not only fond of the racist imprecations but enjoys himself a little anti-Semitism, too. It’s not just that he wasn’t Israel destroyed, but he’s also after a nice close relationship with the Islamists of Hamas. Kind of explains his views on 9/11, doesn’t it?
His campaign, of course, overreacted as if he had his social security number stolen by a leader of the rival political party or something. I can tell you right now that nothing serious will come of the investigation because nothing serious happened. I can say with near-certainty that there wasn’t any major security breach and no funny business. The real story, when it fully comes out, is likely to be very mundane. Here’s what I’m sure happened.
For about a decade, I had access to sensitive criminal and motor vehicle information as part of my job. I could call up a tag number of driving record, as well as a truckload of criminal history, gun purchase, and other information of that nature as often as I wanted, pretty much without drawing any attention. The temptation to access that information when I didn’t need to do so was sometimes nearly impossible to overcome. Plenty of people who do the same job I did have that information now and they use it all the time for perfectly valid reasons. They’re bound by laws that insist they access the information only for a valid law-enforcement reason. But I do know that sometimes that doesn’t happen. Sometimes, that information gets accessed for reasons other than law-enforcement. Generally, the reason is curiosity and not malice. Someone wants to know who was driving the car that cut them off or they check their friend’s driving record to let them know how much longer they’ll have to wait before that ticket comes off the record (so they can pay reasonable insurance rates again), or something like that.
That’s what happened in this case. I’m sure the folks we’re talking about here were a couple of data entry clerks there to grind through the mountain of data that needs entered. They ad access to the passport data. They got bored while on a break and decided to see who they could run, for the heck of it. They ran Obama and the alarms got tripped. It was a small breach and the punishment has been meted. End of story.
Or at least it should be, but it won’t. Obama desperately needs something to get the MSM’s attention off of how close he’s been to a very public and nasty bigot for two decades and this looks like jus tthe ticket. Of course, the MSM will be all too glad to divert its attention as well for a while to get him off the hook.
So we’ll hear all sorts of wild conspiracies about shadowy figures with access to passport files and how they’re out to get Obama. I suppose making up stories beats exploring the ones that already exist, at least where the Obamessiah is concerned.
(via memeorandum)
UPDATE: It wasn’t just Obama’s passport file that got peeped but all three candidates. That leads me to believe even more strongly that this was just a couple bored clerks poking around to see what they could see and not some sort of political dirty trick.
I’m also wondering just what’s in a passport file that makes this such a screamer of a story. So far as I know, there isn’t anything particularly sensitive there beyond a social security number. It’s not like these folks accessed a criminal history record or something like that. What’s the big deal here? Is it that Obama’s record was the first one reported and that the story will die down now that all three candidates’ records are involved?
