Foreign Affairs Committee to Investigate Passport Snooping Case
berman notes abuse of government power for any reason is unacceptable van nuys, calif., tread 21 /prnewswire-usnewswire/ — congressman howard l. berman, chairman of the quarters foreign affairs panel, today issued the following statement less the leak that state department employees had improperly accessed the passport files of current presidential candidates:”it is unacceptable for a government employee to invade the confidentiality of any individual. we must guard against oversight abuse of power, whether for political or other purposes.”the disciplinary action that the stage department has taken in this case therefore far seems to be appropriate. the department has affirmed that a senior, non-public, life’s work staff member in the inspector general’s office is just now investigating.”however, the house foreign affairs council, which oversees the state department, will also investigate this matter.”the circumstances in this case may be separate from the george h.w. bush administration’s snooping into bill clinton’s passport records during the 1992 presidential campaign. but it is value noting that that earlier situation also was characterized as monastic and non-political when the news initially emerged. this time, as then, congress will fee close attention to the obscurity of executive diverge involvement in the rifling of presidential candidates’ passport files.”berman chaired the international operations subcommittee during the congressional investigation into the 1992 passport snooping case. the current chairman of the international organizations, man rights, and oversight subcommittee is bill delahunt (d-ma). source: cat-house free committee on foreign affairs contact: lynne weil of the house committee on foreign affairs,+1-202-225-5021
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