Good morning! Were you all snuggled safe in your bed last night
knowing that you always do the right thing by never carrying
your Social Security card with you and shredding all your
personally identifiable information and thinking that, short of
another bank screw-up, your privacy was protected? Um, yeah,
well, get ready for a restless night tonight.  Obama's Passport
Data Hacked Actually, it wasn't hacked so much as 3 government
contractors who weren't supposed to peek at it decided to peek
at it. Yes, somewhere in the wilds of our outsourced government,
three contractors with no business looking at his passport data
were able to do so because our government put in place exactly
zero controls to prevent the unauthorized viewing of people's
passport data but they do have in place controls to let them
know if it's someone important whose data is being accessed so
they can look into it eventually. They don't yet know if the
peeking was politically motivated but it isn't the first time
it's happened—the Republi