This is a very bad sign....

According to MSNBC, three officials at the State Department violated terms of privacy to access Senator Barack Obama's passport records. There is not a lot of information available yet; however, there seems to be three important questions: (1) why did the workers do this? (2) what did they want to know? (3) who asked the workers to search the files?

Interestingly enough, this occurred in 1992 to former President Bill Clinton. Like Father, like...

Update: it appears that the passports for all of the candidates have gone through some form of unnecessary review. According to CNN, Sec. of State Rice told Hillary Clinton that her passport went through an extra examination during a training exercise. John McCain also received the news that someone viewed his passport. The incidents may not have be related and the violations are not to the same degree.

At least the incompetence of the government under the Bush Administration is violating the rights of members of both parties.