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To: longnshort who wrote (18524)	3/20/2008 10:22:46 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 25737

Did you do this, Shorty? ____________________________________ McCain campaign suspends staffer for race video Thu Mar 20, 5:10 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain's presidential campaign on Thursday suspended a staffer for sending a racially charged video involving Democrat Barack Obama and his controversial preacher. ADVERTISEMENT The campaign said Soren Dayton was disciplined after it was learned that he had been sending out the video, which the Internet site Politico.com said used the controversial words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to portray Obama as unpatriotic. "We have been very clear on the type of campaign we intend to run and this staffer acted in violation of our policy. He has been reprimanded by campaign leadership and suspended from the campaign," said McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker. Dayton had no role in the McCain communications office and was described as a low-level staffer who sent out the video via a device used for online social networking. Obama, who would be America's first black president, was forced to distance himself from Wright, who has expressed anger over what he called racist America, charged that the September 11 attacks were retribution for U.S. foreign policy and claimed the U.S. government was the source of the AIDS virus. Wright was Obama's pastor in Chicago for two decades. He recently retired. McCain has repeatedly said he would run a respectful campaign against either Obama or New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton and that the public is tired of negative campaigning. "A lot of the stuff you don't like you won't see in this campaign," he said at a campaign event last week. Politico.com said the video Dayton sent included images of Malcolm X, black Olympians raising their hands in the black power salute and the rap song "Fight the Power."

To: longnshort who wrote (18524)	3/21/2008 11:17:24 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

State Department Employees Fired For Snooping Obama Passport Friday, March 21, 2008 CAMPAIGN NEWS usnews.com The Washington Times reports on its front page this morning that a pair of State Department employees were fired recently and a third was "disciplined" for "improperly accessing electronic personal data" on Sen. Barack Obama. The employees "used their authorized computer network access to look up files within the department's consular affairs section, which processes and stores passport information, and read Mr. Obama's passport application and other records, in violation of department privacy rules." The AP reports State Department spokesman Sean McCormack "said the department itself detected the instances of 'imprudent curiosity,' which occurred separately on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14. He would not release the names of those who were fired and disciplined." The Washington Post reports Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement, "This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. ... This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama's passport file, for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach." USA Today notes "the disclosure recalled an episode late in the 1992 presidential campaign when an assistant secretary of State was fired for a search of Bill Clinton's passport files. After an investigation, State Department Inspector General Sherman Funk said that breach was made in an attempt to 'influence the outcome of a presidential election.'"