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Rice apologizes to Obama for records breach |
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By Klaus Marre
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Posted: 03/21/08 10:52 AM [ET] |
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she apologized in person to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) after contractors employed by her agency were found to have gone through his file without permission. “I’ve talked to the senator,” Rice told reporters. “I told him that I was sorry. And I told him that I, myself, would be very disturbed if I learned that somebody had looked into my passport file. And therefore I will stay on top of it and get to the bottom of it.” Rice added that there would be a full investigation into the matter. “We are in contact with the senator's office, and indeed will provide briefings concerning this incident,” the secretary told reporters. “But none of us wants to have a circumstance in which any American's passport file is looked at in an unauthorized way. And in this case it should have been known to senior management. It was not, to my knowledge.” Rice added that her department would “take every step that we can to make sure that this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.” |
