Passport File Contractor CEO Is A Hillary Donor

by Steve Soto

The contractor whose employees improperly breached the passport files of Barack Obama and John McCain this year, Stanley Incorporated, also breached the file of Hillary Clinton last year while in training.

But since it is late Friday afternoon and we all need something interesting to chew on, Stanley Incorporated’s CEO Philip O. Nolan has made his choice for president this year. Before the second breach of Obama's records by a Stanley Inc. employee last month, and possibly before a third Stanley employee breached John McCain's and Obama's records this month, Nolan donated $1,000 to Hillary Clinton. (see update below)

Go to Open Secrets, follow the instructions for donor lookup, and see what you find.

Update: NBC News reports tonight that a different contractor, Analysis Corporation, supplied the contract worker who inappropriately breached Obama's and McCain's records on March 14th. This contract employee has not been fired. Analysis Corporation is headed by a former senior assistant to George Tenet at the CIA.

Update #2 (Saturday evening): As others have pointed out since, Mr. Brennan, the CEO of Analysis Corporation is in fact a national security advisor to, and speaker for . . . Barack Obama. So the company headed by a Clinton donor had two different employees who breached Obama's records on two separate dates, and the company headed by an Obama campaign advisor had a third employee breach the records of Obama and John McCain on the same day this month after Obama emerged as the Democratic front-runner. The first two events took place while a former Clinton ambassador ran the area supervising the contract, and the last event took place after that person retired on February 29th. And yet we are to believe that a Bush Administration official leaked news of all three breaches to the Washington Times without Foggy Bottom's senior management knowing about the breaches first, yet State doesn't want to call in the FBI. It seems like we'll have to get the straight story from the two companies and their staff because we'll undoubtedly get a pack of lies and spin from the Bush Administration on this.