re: Troopergate
Now that I've been thinking about it, I think my reaction to news that Obama and McCain's passport files were breached, pretty well sums up my reaction to Lt. Shirley perusing records that he shouldn't have:
Well, first it was Obama, and now it appears that both Clinton and McCain's passport files were "breached". My initial reaction, when it was just Obama, was "so what"?
Look, we can try to find nefarious motives behind this, but it appears that the only reason we know that their passports were breached were because of security protocols which flagged queries into the passports of VIPs.
Here's what I think happened. Employees with access to the system were bored, they got curious, and looked at their information. 'Nuff said. I'd have probably done the same damn thing if I had been an employee there and didn't know about the security protocols. People are curious, and when you have access to the information, there is temptation to look.
They shouldn't have, and have been fired because of it, but unless there is evidence of tampering or political motivations, I don't think this is really that big of a deal.
Shirley hasn't been fired yet, but all signs point to a not so graceful exit.
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I used to have a job where I had access to people's criminal, civil, and to some degree financial histories. We all looked up people we knew. I don't think I knew a single person at my job who didn't. I'm not sure how you could resist the temptation. We didn't do anything scary with the info, but the temptation to look at that stuff is pretty powerful.
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