So the passport files of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have been breached by a state-department employee and/or employees:

There were three breaches in recent weeks involving the files of Sen. Barack Obama, at least one involving Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, and one involving Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he said.

The breaches involving Obama and McCain were by three contractors, two of whom were dismissed and the other disciplined. The incident involving Clinton was a training mistake, McCormack said.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today apologized to Obama for three State Department contractors who delved into his passport file in recent weeks.

Somebody screwed up.

It looks like at least one incident here was frivolous, a trainee was allowed to wander beyond the limits that should be imposed on a new hire. The others, involving contractors, were probably simple matters of snooping for the sake of snooping. Corrections need to be made.

Of course, the leftists are spinning like crazy, focusing on the passport files of Obama and Hillary and, of course, not noticing that somebody peeked at McCain's passport files, too. And there are plenty of reminders of how the first Bush administration peeked at Bill Clinton's passport files back in the early '90's, and insinuations that this kind of peeking must be a Bush family thing.

And, of course, it's all BS.

Democrats need to remember that the real champ of file pilfering and record plundering is Billary Clinton.

Lest we forget this story from 1996:

TO hear President Clinton tell it, it was "all an innocent bureaucratic snafu," this seamy saga of the White House gaining access to confidential Federal Bureau of Investigation files on prominent Republicans -- files it had no business seeing. "I'm sorry that it occurred," Mr. Clinton said.

Or this one from 1993:

The State Department has begun an internal investigation into why a Clinton Administration official ordered the retrieval of sensitive personnel files of Bush Administration appointees and how that material was given to The Washington Post.

And, oh, yeah ... Billary's Whitewater mess, which was never resolved but just seemed to somehow fall down the memory hole:

My favorite two quotes from that YouTube clip are when Bill says that his administration is the most ethical ever (and he said it with a straight face, no less) ... and when he slips up and says how he really feels; that people shouldn't be allowed to raise questions and erode his authority. Classic Clinton.

So who stands to gain from Passportgate? Oh, clearly Obama. Nobody else. Billary can't successfully spin this because everyone knows how corrupt, dishonest and flat-out incompetent they are. Besides, their supporters have been abandoning them like rats from a sinking ship. McCain doesn't stand to gain anything; he'll do the responsible thing, I bet. He'll say something like "Somebody screwed up. I hope this is corrected so it can't happen again."

That leaves Obama.

The only person with a political dog in this fight is Obama. And he'll use this distraction as his way out of the Jeremiah Wright mess. Just you wait and see.

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