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Washington: Two companies that provide workers for the State Department say they fired or otherwise punished those who improperly accessed the passport records of the three major presidential candidates. The security breaches touched off demands for a congressional investigation.
"None of us wants to have a circumstance in which any American's passport file is looked at in an unauthorised way," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she offered apologies to the candidates.
Stanley Inc. and The Analysis Corp., both from Virginia, said Friday that their employees' actions were unauthorised and not consistent with company policies.
Stanley said it fired two subcontractors involved in accessing the files of presidential candidate Barack Obama when their actions were discovered. A separate search showed that workers also had snooped on the candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton, State Department spokes-man Sean McCormack said.
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