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1. #1
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:16 pm, John Ansell said:

   raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security,

   I’m shocked, I tell you just shocked.

2. #2
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:17 pm, meatpieandtatters said:

   Heck, when over half of our government is outsourced what can you expect?

3. #3
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:18 pm, jeffshultz said:

   Well, now we know why it takes so long to process them – those boats ain’t fast.

4. #4
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:19 pm, walterc said:

   This kind of stuff out of our government used to shock me but it’s getting to where I’m not even surprised any more.

   If it’s about doing work that Americans won’t do, aren’t there any illegals that could do this printing? /sarc

5. #5
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, Boomer said:

   Of course none of these weasels playing with a citizen’s privacy act information (signed into law in 1974) will every find themselves charged, tried, and imprisoned for violating it. Can’t hold people in the vaunted State Department (to include their contractors) accountable.

6. #6
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:23 pm, mojojojo said:

   Hey, let’s use the provisions of NAFTA to outsource passport production to Mexico. Our “undocumented-(insert descriptive preference here)” problems would be fixed within a month or so!

7. #7
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm, NeoConNews said:

   People with a small amount of power seem to relish abusing it. So what’s new?

8. #8
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:31 pm, AlohaGuy said:

   Can’t we just have the Chinese print our money while we’re at it too?

9. #9
   On March 26th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, alamedaman said:

   Can’t we just have the Chinese print our money while we’re at it too?

   they already own it, so might as well. Thank you, Bush!

10. #10
    On March 26th, 2008 at 6:41 pm, Thomas said:

    Passport peep show: “At least 20 instances” of State Department workers peeking

    This is my kind of peep show.

11. #11
    On March 26th, 2008 at 7:04 pm, ajmontana said:

    ot- Heads Up.
    Laura Ingraham is filling in for O’Reilly tonight…….

12. #12
    On March 26th, 2008 at 7:05 pm, zorro said:

    …state-of-the-art passports, one of the crown jewels of American border security.

    Costume jewellery for the open border RINOs and democraps.

13. #13
    On March 26th, 2008 at 7:17 pm, hadsil said:

    A capitalist will sell you the rope you hang him with …

    

14. #14
    On March 26th, 2008 at 7:26 pm, Christian Soldier said:

    Why am I not surprised.

    The U.S. first.

    Honor before money. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

    Heads up! …..Our THREE candidates do not get it either.

15. #15
    On March 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pm, josetheguerilla said:

    ot-
    news flash!!!! shuttle landing at 2039.

    back on topic-

    Great, now the whole world is spying on us.

16. #16
    On March 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm, John Ansell said:

    josetheguerilla said:
    ot-
    news flash!!!! shuttle landing at 2039.

    back on topic-

    Great, now the whole world is spying on us.

    And Bush can’t listen in on known terrorist calling the USA. Thanks Peelosi.

17. #17
    On March 26th, 2008 at 8:49 pm, WarTip said:

    Now in all fairness …

    these are not people’s private passports being made overseas with countless amounts of private data … These are blank passports where anybody can “fill in the blanks” and when they are done well, they are also the very hardest counterfeits to detect because they are for all intents and purposes, actually real passports.

    Scary? That does not even begin to cover it!

18. #18
    On March 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm, Glamchild said:

    There’s a bigger problem than privacy in terms of passports: the flimsy documents needed to obtain one. Fake birth certificates, and actually….you don’t even need a birth certificate.

    You can get a valid passport with just a phony affidavit that you are who you say you are ! Nothing is ever verified. I’d guess 40 % of passports from the incompetent state department are obtained through phony documentation.

    I don’t even want to discuss those fly-by-night “1-hour” passport places…..

19. #19
    On March 26th, 2008 at 10:09 pm, scooter56 said:

    #18
    so you haven’t gotten a passport lately?

20. #20
    On March 27th, 2008 at 5:31 am, rworks said:

    I am so not surprised to hear that people are looking at the files. You get bored down at the office and you start looking.

    “Hmm, I wonder when Angelina Jolie was born. I’ll just look at her file. Hey, my Aunt Joan has the same middle name.”

    Point is that sometimes its just bored guys pawing thru the records and not a conspiracy. Doesn’t make it less illegal, just less nefarious.

21. #21
    On March 27th, 2008 at 9:17 am, Tantor said:

    When I worked in Houston, I had some friends who worked at Service Corporation International, which is the corporation which owns many funeral homes across America. They had computer access to information on every funeral SCI handled. Of course, being curious, they peeked in the database to see how much various celebrity funerals cost. Only about three times what normal people pay, as it turned out.

    My point here is that anytime you store data on a database, lots of unauthorized eyes are going to see it and that information is going to leak out, no matter what you do. That’s a lesson to keep in mind when Hillary makes her pitch for socialized medicine. If you have an abortion or are treated for a venereal disease, a thousand bureaucrats are going to get their sticky little fingers on your files. With people like Hillary in charge, that confidential data may well be used against you, just like the Clintons used classified FBI files against their political enemies.

    And by the way, of course it would be contractors at the State Department who would access these passport files. Contractors outnumber government employees at many, maybe most, federal offices in Washington, sometimes four to one. The gummint can’t attract the technical talent it needs with its antique pay scale and benefits and its factory model of employment.

22. #22
    On March 27th, 2008 at 10:35 am, bigGR said:

    I doubt if we possess the film depostion technology to make the Passport ID strips outside of a laboratory. 99% of this stuff and other chips are made in the far east.

    I can’t imagine how they are securing the information needed to make the ID strips in a foreign facility. Of course, they only went to this new passport so it would not be reproducible-heh!

23. #23
    On March 27th, 2008 at 12:07 pm, jcflindsay said:

    Hey Alameda: I think the USofA and the Constitution can survive “The Bush”. If not, then our Founders were dummasses. Besides, outsourcing is a universally capitalist affair, including Bubba’s and Jimma’s administrations…

24. #24
    On March 28th, 2008 at 9:38 am, Numenorean said:

    They’re outsourcing our passports?!?!?!?!