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Two members of the U.S. State Department dismissed for viewing files Obamy
Employees have lost U.S. State Department, after having learned that they were using an official position, viewed in the database Foreign Ministry information concerning United States presidential candidate Barack Obama.
About unauthorized access to files containing information about Obame, writes in Wednesday newspaper The Washington Times, became known in the middle of March. The internal investigation revealed that officers viewed files Obamy containing, inter alia, information on his foreign trips, not convey this information to third parties. According to preliminary figures, former civil servants moved curiosity rather than selfish motives.
Immediately after it became aware of unauthorized access to the database of the Department of State, two consular officers were immediately dismissed, and the third received a strict reprimand, said Foreign Ministry official spokesman Sean McCormack USA.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, writes The Washington Times, is notified of the incident and had instructed her staff headed by the agency to strengthen measures to protect information relating to famous Americans. Representatives of the election headquarters story called the incident "a flagrant violation of safety rules and the right to privacy."
The leakage of data on Obame not the only incident of its kind in the U.S. Department of State. In 1992, it became clear that the Foreign Ministry officials, taking advantage of public office, trying to find information about Bill Clinton, for the period of war in Vietnam. Opponents of the ex-President of the United States argued that Clinton at the end of 1960 - ies used illegal means in order to evade military service. Proceedings of the illegal access to data Clinton stored in databases and the State Department, took three years. Guide State Department and special services, said The Washington Times, then assured that have taken all possible measures to prevent the recurrence of such an incident. |
Posted: 3:51 PM, 3/21/2008 |
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