http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7308779.stmThe passport files of the three leading US presidential candidates have been improperly accessed, the state department has said.
A state department employee looked at the files of both Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic front-runner Barack Obama, the department said.
State department spokesman Sean McCormack said a trainee also accessed Hillary Clinton's file last year.
Two state department contractors have been fired and a third disciplined.
"In the case of Senator McCain, we detected earlier this year... one of the same people who accessed Senator Obama's passport file also accessed Senator McCain's passport file," Mr McCormack said.
That contract employee had been reprimanded but not fired, he said.
Whoever wins let's make sure they're reminded of how annoyed they were by this often.
