State Dept. refuses to release name of passport contractor
 
Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:51:31 -0500 (CDT)


News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government 21 Mar 2008
http://www.legitgov.org/ All items are here:

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news State Department refuses to
release name of passport contractor --Why? Just like Bush's other
protected species, the telecoms, the State Department's passport
contractor(s) are protected at all costs. Any of their potential
illegal activities are shielded by Bush-run agencies and 'investigative'
arms.

By Lori Price 21 Mar 2008 Citizens for Legitimate Government
(www.legitgov.org) is digging to find the contractor used by the
Bureau of Public Affairs to learn which contractor's employees were
fired and disciplined in the Barack Obama passport security breach.
Two contractors that produce and issue passports for the US State
Department are Stanley and Citigroup, but CLG is NOT stating that
the employees of either of these two contractors were involved in
the breach of the Obama passport security.

Democrat Wants Answers on Obama Passport Breach --Senior House Dem
Gives Monday Deadline to Know Identity of Firm Involved in Peeking
at Obama's Passport Records 21 Mar 2008 A senior House Democrat
wants to know the name of the as-yet-unnamed State Department
contracting firm involved in illicitly peeking at Barack Obama's
passport records. "I...believe this information should be made
publicly available," wrote House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., in a letter today to
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Waxman also asked Rice to
identify the workers involved in the snooping.

Congress gets involved in passport breaches 21 Mar 2008 The revelation
that the passport files of all three of the leading presidential
candidates have been breached is prompting Congress to consider
whether to examine the State Departments oversight of sensitive
personal information, according to congressional aides.

AG: State Dept. didn't ask Justice Dept. to get involved in passport
breach

Stanley Awarded $570 Million Contract to Continue Support of Passport
Program --Over 15-Year History of Providing Passport Services
Continues 17 Mar 2008 Stanley, Inc., a leading provider of systems
integration and professional services to the U.S. federal government,
today announced that it was awarded a five-year, $570 million
contract to continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau
of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate. Services include
production, operational and business process support training,
procurement, administration and evaluation of critical supplies,
and facilities management support at the four Passport Centers and
14 Passport Agencies nationwide along with the Headquarters' support
offices.

What does Stanley do for the Government? (justiceatstanley.org) All
of Stanleys revenue (sales) comes from contracting with various
agencies within the federal government. As of March 31, 2007, Stanley
had two-hundred contracts with forty federal agencies, including
Defense, State, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, Treasury,
NASA, and Justice. The Department of Defense is Stanley's largest
customer overall, but its single biggest contract is with the State
Department for the provision of passport processing and support
services.

Worker Dearth, Citi Blamed In Passport Mess 19 Jun 2006 Internal
memos obtained by MSNBC.com show that the State Departments Office
of Passport Services has for two years in a row waived requirements
to keep error rates on new passports under 1 percent. In some cases,
high error rates have been blamed on Citigroup, which now performs
initial processing of all passport applications, according to a
State Department memo viewed by MSNBC.com.

3 candidates' passport files breached 21 Mar 2008 The passport files
of the three presidential candidates -- Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary
Rodham Clinton and John McCain -- have been breached, the State
Department said Friday. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack
said the breaches of McCain and Clinton's passport files were not
'discovered' until Friday, after [!?!] officials were made aware
of the privacy violation regarding Obama's records and a separate
search was conducted.

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CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, Manager. Copyright ) 2008,
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