Is John Brennan’s appointment as Obama’s Intelligence advisor a quid pro quo for “services rendered” during the campaigns? From Newsmax, AmericasRight, and FreeRepublic:
Obama’s Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach (“cauterized” O’s passport info)
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Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 11:42:32 PM by dascallie
Obama’s Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach
Monday, January 12, 2009 1:46 PM
Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July.
The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies.
During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation.
Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to “cauterize” the records of potentially embarrassing information.
“They looked at the McCain and Clinton files as well to create confusion,” one knowledgeable source told Newsmax. “But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama file.”
At the time of the breach, Brennan was working as an unpaid adviser to the Obama campaign.
“This individual’s actions were taken without the knowledge or direction of anyone at The Analysis Corp. and are wholly inconsistent with our professional and ethical standards,” Brennan’s company said in a statement sent to reporters after the passport breach was made public.
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January 13, 2009 at 8:08 pm
JAMES
Whether the evidence will show that Obama is, or is not, “a natural born Citizen” who has never renounced his American citizenship is an open question. The arguments on both sides are as yet speculative. But Obama’s stubborn refusal to provide what he claims is “his own” country with conclusive proof on that score compels the presumption that he knows, or at least strongly suspects, that no sufficient evidence in his favor exists. After all, he is not being pressed to solve a problem in quantum physics that is “above his pay grade,” but only asked to provide the public with the original copy of some official record that establishes his citizenship. The vast majority of Americans could easily do so. Why will Obama not dispel the doubts about his eligibility—unless he can not?
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin84.htm
January 14, 2009 at 5:13 am
Ace
Washington D.C. is in a State Of Emergency:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/us_world/NATLBush-Issues-State-of-Emergency-for-Inauguration.html
January 14, 2009 at 9:11 am
Interested Bystander
JAMES,
I don’t know how this could not be of relevance.
http://birthdatabase.com/query.php
Look up Barack Obama, and see what comes up.
I tried mine, but got no “hits”.
HMMMMM
January 14, 2009 at 11:00 am
democratista
James…
I don’t know why it’s there, but it’s there from his days at Harvard. Harvard Law School is right on the border of Cambridge/Somerville and Somerville is cheaper!!! I lived there years ago.
My current name is not in there, but my married name is listed.
January 14, 2009 at 1:08 pm
JAMES
IB/ Democratista: That weblink is probably based off of a mixture of information. While my name, birthdate, and birthplace came up correct, my wife and my mother’s came up incorrect as to the place of birth. The Somerville MA that comes up with Barack Obama’s name and birthdate does probably relate to his days at Harvard.