BTW On the Obama passport issue…why would a firm whose sole job is to print-up and send passports have the access to the “passport file”? Wouldn’t they only, legitimately, have information that is contained on the actual passport? One’s SS#, and even permanent address is not actually ON the passport…unless it is encrypted.
So what is in the encrypted strip? Shouldn’t we be told what information might be accessed by foreign gov’ts that have scanners, or the prying eyes of contract companies, or people that have those bar code readers?
And why should any contractor have access to the complete file, shouldn’t information about visa applications and travel to other countries, and movements on expired passports, be firewalled. The information on the passport itself should be all that is accessible to the contractor.
Otherwise there is room for tremendous mischief and abuse. Wish the names of those fired were released.
Here’s the Financial Contributions of the CEO of Stanley, Inc.
On the serious side, can this decision be reversed? There was talk yesterday to have congress de-fund this. Is that possible?
One more question: Did Lou Dobbs mention this?
The Associated Press later identified Stanley, Inc. as the Virginia-based contractor whose two employees were terminated. One prescient blogger who guessed correctly that Stanley was the contractor in question noted that its CEO is a GOP donor:
…[O]ne thing that would add to the appearance of impropriety is that CEO Nolan has, according to the Open Secrets database, been a campaign contributor to Sen. Joe Lieberman, a leading supporter of Obama’s Republican adversary John McCain. In March 2005 Nolan gave $1,000 to Lieberman’s reelection campaign.
The NBC News ‘Deep Background’ blog has more on Stanley, Inc.
Do we know who these “contractors” actually are? Do they have security clearance? Are they just ordinary people hired by Stanley? We need to know this stuff.
Passport scandal leads to Virginia contractor, Stanley 21 Mar 2008 Two of the government contractors who allegedly took a peek at Sen. Barack Obama’s passport records worked for a Virginia-based firm called Stanley, Inc., according to U.S. government officials with knowledge of the State Department passport controversy. Stanley, Inc., is headquartered in Arlington, Va. The State Department awarded it a contract for $164 million in 2006. The contract called for Stanley to print and mail millions of new U.S. passports.
2 Fired in Passport Case With Va. Firm 21 Mar 2008 The Associated Press has learned [CLG reported it first] that the two contractors fired for snooping into Barack Obama’s passport records worked for a Virginia-based company called Stanley Inc. Earlier this week, the 3,500-person company won a five-year, $570-million contract to support passport services at the State Department.
Stanley Awarded $570 Million Contract to Continue Support of Passport Program –Over 15-Year History of Providing Passport Services Continues 17 Mar 2008 Stanley, Inc., a leading provider of systems integration and professional services to the U.S. federal government, today announced that it was awarded a five-year, $570 million contract to continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate. Services include production, operational and business process support training, procurement, administration and evaluation of critical supplies, and facilities management support at the four Passport Centers and 14 Passport Agencies nationwide along with the Headquarters’ support offices.
What does Stanley do for the Government? (justiceatstanley.org) All of Stanley’s revenue (sales) comes from contracting with various agencies within the federal government. As of March 31, 2007, Stanley had two-hundred contracts with forty federal agencies, including Defense, State, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, Treasury, NASA, and Justice. The Department of Defense is Stanley’s largest customer overall, but its single biggest contract is with the State Department for the provision of passport processing and support services.
Dunno, they’re (reporters and bloggers) still digging. The state dept refused to release the name of the contractor (but they found out anyway) and refuse to release any info on the individuals involved.
A worker at a second contracting company, not related to Stanley, Inc., also allegedly took a look at the Obama files and those belonging to Sen. John McCain. That person has been disciplined but not yet been fired, State Department officials say.
They didn’t have authorization for access…somehow they breached the firewall or were given the codes.
Stanley, Inc. is an IT company.
This doesn’t sound simply like a “curiosity…they peeked” thing. It sounds as if they had to make a volitional effort to penetrate into the files.
George W. Bush has kept his passport files secret for decades. He wouldn’t reveal the fact that he flew into Central America in the mid-1970’s using his suspended Air Force flying license to pick-up and deliver “specialty horticultural products”. He has successfully blocked any curiosity into this, or his trip to the Far East. This was done so successfully that the myth that Bush had never travelled abroad until he was governor was perpetuated and fostered.
According to federal campaign records, Stanley’s CEO, Philip Nolan, has made political contributions to prominent Republican candidates and also gave $1,000 to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Feb. 20, 2008
.. and I might add, we have to look at the breach of McCain/HRC as being smoke for a cover up … not that they had anything to do with it, just that whoever did this might be using them as decoy …
I couldn’t find Nolan’s contribution to the Clinton Campaign but here’s some interesting stuff about the PAC that Nolan contributes to…with the names of more “Stanley, Inc.” employees.
Nope…as far as I know my family (brasilian) has dutch, german, african and indigenous so no french here. Home meant (USA) that vidoe is not going to play well to the folks who lost their jobs overseas
Unlike Blackwater, Greystone has managed to stay almost entirely out of public view, and it remains a mystery even to industry insiders. Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association, a trade group of which Greystone was a member until late last year, couldn’t say what the company does. (Blackwater pulled out of the group last October after the ipoa launched an investigation into its conduct; Greystone followed suit in November.) Neither could R.J. Hillhouse, a political scientist and private-security expert who follows the industry closely. Even a spokesman for the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, which has issued contracts to Blackwater on which Greystone works as a subcontractor, admits he has never heard of the company.
Despite—or perhaps because of—its close-to-the-vest MO, the company has built up a certain mystique. One contractor we spoke to said he was present when Greystone managers arrived to claim their office space at Blackwater’s Baghdad headquarters. They were a different breed from the “yee-haw cowboys” that filled Blackwater’s ranks, and their tattoos indicated backgrounds in elite military units like Marine Recon, the Navy seals, and the Green Berets. “They didn’t talk to the other Americans,” he said, let alone foreigners. “They had different bodies, different mentalities, and used different language. They had a different professional attitude.”
George W. Bush has kept his passport files secret for decades. He wouldn’t reveal the fact that he flew into Central America in the mid-1970’s using his suspended Air Force flying license to pick-up and deliver “specialty horticultural products”. He has successfully blocked any curiosity into this, or his trip to the Far East. This was done so successfully that the myth that Bush had never travelled abroad until he was governor was perpetuated and fostered.
That’s right; I had forgotten about both of those stories
Great minds…I was thinking about posting this too. Interesting that they’d actually jump out front on this. Their coverage usually makes my teeth hurt.
Stanley Inc. may have covered up because Monday March 17, 2008, Stanley Inc. (SXE) announced that it received a five-year $570 million contract to continue provide support service for U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate.
Then, three days later, on Thursday, Barack Obama was notified about the breach.
Pretty funny but another thing to remember that in France the government is affraid of the people and in the States the people are affraid of the government. Americans are willing sheep, complacent and compliant. If the French government did 1/3 of what is acceptable to Americans the people would storm the modern day equivalent of the Bastille.
cancelled? finally!! he’s just a …… a really can’t think of a single word to describe him. he’s both nasty and ignorant. guess what he was talking about today? three guesses.
After 8 years of Bush hacking the English Language to bits, no one will make fun of you
Yeah, lowest common denominator. I wouldn’t mind somebody laughing at me that much. However, i’m sure it irks a few to bits, I never use a spellcheck, in fact, I don’t even have one.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Chinese “oppression” in Tibet on Friday as thousands of Tibetan exiles cheered her arrival in this Indian hill town to meet the Dalai Lama
Why can’t she consistently say anything newsworthy about Bush/Cheney here?
Jane!
wow, I wonder if obama will approve that message
Hi French Fries?
Jane, that is wonderful. Thanks for the laugh.
That Was Hilarious!
Airbus, when you absolutely need the campaign cash delivered on time.
Viva!
Hi Jane, great video. Wish they’d take a francophone to imitate the french…
Is the le part of the joke, or would the corrct la be welcomed?
I knoe, I bitch too much. ;-)
It’s part of the charm.
cheese eating surrender monkeys
hahahahahahaha,the French were right about Iraq,and sooooo many other things
hahahahahahaha
Now if they fill those planes up with some good French vino before they send them over here that would be nice. Nothing like buying bulk!
Vive La Tete de Pomme Frites!
my friends husband was cfo of Airbus
It’s La France>
do you know the propper way to make them…first the ice water…teh goood!
“Une Nouveau Scandale McCain: La “lobbyist” et le “French Lettres”
I’m no prince though.
Man, I’m bitching about french, and I can’t even put up one post in acceptable english…
Shorter McCain when you need to throw ten thousand American jobs under one bus.
Airbus
good talking point for Obama.
ES!!!!
How’s the flooding?
Good one!
you do fine,and my French is abysmal,but i read it ,much better than i speak it
Tweety is going after McCain and quoting Hagee…
I wonder if MSNBC will show this like they showed Laura Ingraham’s Obama smear yesterday. All in the interest of informing the public, of course.
on good friday…really good French Fries…enjoy!
http://www.ehow.com/how_209110.....fries.html
Jean McCain ne regrets rein.
BTW On the Obama passport issue…why would a firm whose sole job is to print-up and send passports have the access to the “passport file”? Wouldn’t they only, legitimately, have information that is contained on the actual passport? One’s SS#, and even permanent address is not actually ON the passport…unless it is encrypted.
So what is in the encrypted strip? Shouldn’t we be told what information might be accessed by foreign gov’ts that have scanners, or the prying eyes of contract companies, or people that have those bar code readers?
And why should any contractor have access to the complete file, shouldn’t information about visa applications and travel to other countries, and movements on expired passports, be firewalled. The information on the passport itself should be all that is accessible to the contractor.
Otherwise there is room for tremendous mischief and abuse. Wish the names of those fired were released.
Here’s the Financial Contributions of the CEO of Stanley, Inc.
Philip Nolan
Wow. This ain’t gonna play good at home…
On the serious side, can this decision be reversed? There was talk yesterday to have congress de-fund this. Is that possible?
One more question: Did Lou Dobbs mention this?
HA! What a great ad! Can’t wait until we can all rally around running CrazyTrain off the rails.
Stuff like that and this new Obama ad that started today in Penn gets my hopes up for Nov:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talk.....pennsy.php
O/T
Tsunami victims flooded again
http://www.sciam.com/video.cfm.....6819E61E1C
he loves him some Short Ride….hahahahaha
oh my…he might need some mood elevators
They didn’t have authorization for access…somehow they breached the firewall or were given the codes.
Stanley, Inc. is an IT company.
Big surprise that the CEo is a GOP donor…biiiiig surprise
ze country, she is female.
They also outsource and have been rewarded (as of march 18th) and 520 million contract to continue Passport support.
Maybe they are one of those “other” companies spying on Americans…
That’s a terrific ad, love it.
more here
i wouldn’t put it pass them
Vive la France.
-G
Do we know who these “contractors” actually are? Do they have security clearance? Are they just ordinary people hired by Stanley? We need to know this stuff.
Boy, sure are a lot of imprudently curious low level employees at Stanley Inc.
-G
Cruise around their website:
http://jobs-stanleyassociates....../intro.jsp
uh oh made me tear up! beautiful
Passport scandal leads to Virginia contractor, Stanley 21 Mar 2008 Two of the government contractors who allegedly took a peek at Sen. Barack Obama’s passport records worked for a Virginia-based firm called Stanley, Inc., according to U.S. government officials with knowledge of the State Department passport controversy. Stanley, Inc., is headquartered in Arlington, Va. The State Department awarded it a contract for $164 million in 2006. The contract called for Stanley to print and mail millions of new U.S. passports.
2 Fired in Passport Case With Va. Firm 21 Mar 2008 The Associated Press has learned [CLG reported it first] that the two contractors fired for snooping into Barack Obama’s passport records worked for a Virginia-based company called Stanley Inc. Earlier this week, the 3,500-person company won a five-year, $570-million contract to support passport services at the State Department.
Stanley Awarded $570 Million Contract to Continue Support of Passport Program –Over 15-Year History of Providing Passport Services Continues 17 Mar 2008 Stanley, Inc., a leading provider of systems integration and professional services to the U.S. federal government, today announced that it was awarded a five-year, $570 million contract to continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate. Services include production, operational and business process support training, procurement, administration and evaluation of critical supplies, and facilities management support at the four Passport Centers and 14 Passport Agencies nationwide along with the Headquarters’ support offices.
What does Stanley do for the Government? (justiceatstanley.org) All of Stanley’s revenue (sales) comes from contracting with various agencies within the federal government. As of March 31, 2007, Stanley had two-hundred contracts with forty federal agencies, including Defense, State, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, Treasury, NASA, and Justice. The Department of Defense is Stanley’s largest customer overall, but its single biggest contract is with the State Department for the provision of passport processing and support services.
Sure are a lot of imprudently incurious managers too.
What are we paying the management staff for, if not to train people properly and monitor what’s going on?
Dunno, they’re (reporters and bloggers) still digging. The state dept refused to release the name of the contractor (but they found out anyway) and refuse to release any info on the individuals involved.
But, but, but they only looked at passports of people who have AQ ties overseas….right?
Can you please provide a link for that? Thanks.
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Well well according to NBC
i for one dont buy it…because the dates coincide with big wins,as KO explained….me no buy it
http://www.legitgov.org/
This doesn’t sound simply like a “curiosity…they peeked” thing. It sounds as if they had to make a volitional effort to penetrate into the files.
George W. Bush has kept his passport files secret for decades. He wouldn’t reveal the fact that he flew into Central America in the mid-1970’s using his suspended Air Force flying license to pick-up and deliver “specialty horticultural products”. He has successfully blocked any curiosity into this, or his trip to the Far East. This was done so successfully that the myth that Bush had never travelled abroad until he was governor was perpetuated and fostered.
same link as #52
Here is what Stanley does:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=sxe
and i thought they made hammers…stoopit me
.. and I might add, we have to look at the breach of McCain/HRC as being smoke for a cover up … not that they had anything to do with it, just that whoever did this might be using them as decoy …
was she the only dem?
seems like Obama was the BIG catch …yes
jeebus, they have their hands in lots of places. Military and state dept, me no likey that combo
Waddya mean, “at home”? Are you French? Et tu Francaise?
Thus so far, she is the only one listed but that may change as the story develops
Thanks, Dakinikat!
is it too early to post an off topic?
Jane! (version Française).
I couldn’t find Nolan’s contribution to the Clinton Campaign but here’s some interesting stuff about the PAC that Nolan contributes to…with the names of more “Stanley, Inc.” employees.
Professional Services Council PAC
Nope…as far as I know my family (brasilian) has dutch, german, african and indigenous so no french here. Home meant (USA) that vidoe is not going to play well to the folks who lost their jobs overseas
OT-Blackwater also has Greystone.
I have been trying to Digg this post, but Digg keeps inviting me to join Digg, when I am already a member.
Perhaps someone else could Digg it.
Nao, sou brasiliera. (I’m brasilian)
This was according to federal Campaing records per NBC (see link @52)
Wouldn’t be prudent.
-G
If all they have are government contract then those must be those six hundred dollar hammers we all heard about.
I’d like to see Henry Waxman hammer Stanley Inc. before his committee.
Clearly the case.
Especially the McCain one.
“See, everyone was victimized by these imprudently curious low level employees!”
-G
Thanks for the link. It’s been added to the front page news box.
i bet they cost 6,000,now,or mebbe 6 million…eggs cost 3 bux “g”
hahahahahahahaha
teh good one
All of them imprudently curious about the same thing.
yw, its a good site, Lori does a good job researching things
That’s right; I had forgotten about both of those stories
OT if anybody is interested
http://www.politico.com/news/s...../9149.html
Taking action makes Nancy unhappy.
By the way, anyone know exactly what is IN a person’s passport file?
funny dat
Thanks, the thing is with the quality of english present here, I know I’m way outclassed and deficient. Extremely intimidating.
I do appreciate the compliment.
i am unfortunately un curious
Stanley employees?
To paraphrase Nixon, when a Republic does it, that means it is not hiding something.
not really,specially when the peeps have had a few….snicker
Great minds…I was thinking about posting this too. Interesting that they’d actually jump out front on this. Their coverage usually makes my teeth hurt.
When I did my own search via Newsmeat, it did not list any contributions to Clinton, but I’m still searching other databases to make sure
After 8 years of Bush hacking the English Language to bits, no one will make fun of you …
Stanley Inc. may have covered up because Monday March 17, 2008, Stanley Inc. (SXE) announced that it received a five-year $570 million contract to continue provide support service for U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate.
Then, three days later, on Thursday, Barack Obama was notified about the breach.
after the little unpleasentness the other day,i was gonna pass,but hell,its still america ,no?
i hungry and know not what to eat
Si!
Heck, we all have those days. Even the crankiest of us (aka me) deserve another turn!
Pretty funny but another thing to remember that in France the government is affraid of the people and in the States the people are affraid of the government. Americans are willing sheep, complacent and compliant. If the French government did 1/3 of what is acceptable to Americans the people would storm the modern day equivalent of the Bastille.
anybody know how to say “quarter pounder with cheese” in french?
true
I’ve been claening and dehydrating stuff all week (crackers, cocoa cereal, etc.) But I hate it when i’m hungry and don’t know what I want to eat
Royale avec frommage.
-G
or as mr wobbs says: he speaks the fool’s english
thanks. ’cause they have the metric system and they wouldn’t know what tne fuck a quatrter pounder is.
i just been watching fox news. that guy john “there’s a war on xmas” gibson … has he ever gotten worst person in the world award? if not, he should.
Oh, many times, many times. He’s just been recently cancelled by Fox due to low ratings (have no idea as to when this goes into effect)
i just can’t get into march madness this year
Google -> “worst person in the world” “john gibson”
Many hits!
cancelled? finally!! he’s just a …… a really can’t think of a single word to describe him. he’s both nasty and ignorant. guess what he was talking about today? three guesses.
(first 2 don’t count)
my freaking team lost first game so I could care less now
ummm errrr uhhhhh ummmmm gosh what could a right wing racist nut job be talking about…..hmmmmm it boggles the mind
thanks. i honestly thought nobody was even paying attention to him.
mabe scumbag is the word i was looking for to descibe him.
take your time. i know it’s hard. no rush. it’ll come to you sooner or later.
Yeah, lowest common denominator. I wouldn’t mind somebody laughing at me that much. However, i’m sure it irks a few to bits, I never use a spellcheck, in fact, I don’t even have one.
wobbly at 103-i eat nuts and fruit when i feel like that……
did you get the recipe i left you a few days ago?
was from when i used to eat raw foods.
raw banana pie–
bananas, mashed
little bit of rice milk (liquid)
crust is finely chopped dates or figs and finely chopped nuts
put date mixture in pie plate or dish, moosh it across bottom and up the sides, pat it down FIRMLY.
pour in bananas
freeze
cut when half-frozen.
really gotta lean on it hard to cut through the crust.
if you use oils, oil the bottom of the dish.
Queteur Peundeur
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Why can’t she consistently say anything newsworthy about Bush/Cheney here?