From reading the Washington Post:

"The employees were each caught because of a computer-monitoring system
that is triggered when the passport account of a "high-profile person"
is accessed without authorization, . . "


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My understanding is that the issue is not one of a comprehensive and
authorized background check (and as an aside, I don't believe there is a
requirement for that; moreover, I think the media and the citizenry do a
pretty good job of that today thanks to them there Interwebs).

Instead, this was career State Department employees just, y'know,
looking at
the info in the files for their own purposes, just as there were
employees
with me when I was in government that would look through the traffic
tickets
to see if anyone famous had gotten a ticket (and those of you in
government
probably know people who do/have done that too). It speaks to a failure
of
internal controls (or lack of them altogether).

Regards,

Jesse Wilkins
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