Seems there’s an aspect here of protesting a bit much on the State Department’s part. Amazingly, within 24 hours of the news of the snoops into Sen. Obama’s file, we have news that the same thing has happened to each of the other presidential candidates. Presumably if Gov. Huckabee had done better in South Carolina we’d be hearing that he got a look too. The look at Sen. Clinton’s file was done by a trainee during a training session after an instructor asked a class to practice with random names. So, really not in the same category. And McCain’s breach, well … not much information at all about that one, other than that it was done by one of the same people who snooped Obama.

Adding to the oddity is that the fact that the State Department seems much more solicitous of the privacy of these fired rule-breakers than the privacy of the president candidate(s) being snooped. State is still refusing to release the names of the snoopers or the contractors they worked for.