Stanley runs a passport manufacturing center in Phoenix, AZ and one in Arkansas.

Apparently the company has been anti-union.

http://www.justiceatstanley.org/news/

They also run processing facilities for US Green Card applications.

Check out their jobs section - here are the passport related jobs --

http://jobs-stanleyassociates.icims.com/stanleyassociates_jobs/jobs/candidate/jobs.jsp?ss=1&searchKeyword=passport&searchLocation=&searchCategory=

Guess someone forgot this "Specific Duty" thata appear in most of the jobs:

• Adhere to the Federal Privacy Act Laws and have knowledge of federal personnel rules and regulations including the Foreign Affairs Manual Volume III (FAM-Personnel).

Councedence?

Stanley Senior Vice President William E. Karlson sells 5,825 shares

updated 4:36 p.m. ET, Tues., March. 18, 2008

NEW YORK - A senior vice president of Stanley Inc., which provides systems integration and professional services to the federal government, sold 5,825 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday.

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http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/clientsum.asp?txtname=Stanley+Assoc&year=2007

Stanley Associates spending on lobbyists:
1998 = $40,000
2001 = $20,000
2002 = $40,000
2006 = $less than 20,000
2007 = $100,000 ---to Egel Associates and
Advantage Assoc

Dick Egles' political contributions, all GOP:
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/dick-egle.asp?cycle=04

Stanley Inc.'s Dick Egle gave to Responsibility and Freedom Work PAC, and they gave to ... Republicans.

http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/committees/responsibility-and-freedom-work-pac-rfwpac.asp?cycle=06

Is there actual documented proof that McCain's info was breached, say, before today?

Stanley Awarded $570 Million Contract to Continue Support of Passport Program
Over 15-Year History of Providing Passport Services Continues

http://investor.stanleyassociates.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=198762&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1119161&highlight=

My passport file was breached too! When I called Condi and asked how come, she said, "Oh, just curious." I took her at her word on that.

Why is the issuing of passports being outsourced? And the issuing of green cards?

Are we going to outsource the printing of stamps next? And after that the printing of money?

This is a business. Think of all the ways this business could do other business... like printing fake passports or fake green cards. The potential for abuses here seems huge!

How might this link in with intelligence gathering? How long before monitoring chips are installed in passports?

So the cost of passports went up, to help a company earn money? And pay for lobbying? To get more government contracts?

"Stanley, Inc., is headquartered in Arlington, Va. and is employee-owned."

In other words, they live next door to Spook Central.

ok, here's my theory.

Obama's file was the only one looked at.

There's a slight chance they looked at Hillary's too, but they never looked at McCain's.

Adding McCain and Hillary to the story is a cover up to make it seem like it wasn't opposition research on Obama alone.

This entire thing is about ANTI AMERICANISM. Recall that Bill was just on the stump yesterday insinuating that Obama is anti-american. He said that only Hillary and MCain 'love their country'

Has anyone checked whether Farrakhan's and Wrights passports were breached. Afterall, the right and now the Clinton camp are saying that Wright's remarks were UN AMERICAN!!!

this is nothing but PASSPORTGATE II

deja vu 1992

NOTE: This same tactic was used against Bill Clinton in 1992. In 1992 the initial reports were also portrayed as innocuous (Hillary and McCain also had breaches they are telling us):

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0D8143EF936A25753C1A964958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

But there were hints that partisan politics were behind the intial report:

Officials of two of the news organizations involved, The Associated Press and Hearst Newspapers, said they had asked for Mr. Clinton's visa, passport, draft and citizenship records because of claims made to them by Republicans that Mr. Clinton, the Democratic Presidential nominee, had tried to renounce his citizenship in the 1960's...
The [State] department also confirmed that Elizabeth Tamposi, the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, a political appointee of Mr. Bush's former chief of staff, John H. Sununu, took personal charge of the records search, an extremely unusual move for someone in her position.

Upon further investigation we learned initial reports were highly misleading.

Here is the 92 story or

Passportgate I

In 1992, for instance, George H.W. Bush’s White House pulled strings at the State Department and at U.S. embassies in Europe to uncover and to disseminate derogatory information about Bill Clinton in the final weeks of the campaign.

The Bush assault on Clinton’s patriotism moved into high gear on the night of Sept. 30, 1992, when assistant secretary of state Elizabeth Tamposi – under pressure from the White House – ordered three aides to pore through Clinton’s passport files in search of a purported letter in which Clinton supposedly sought to renounce his citizenship.

Though no letter was found, Tamposi still injected the suspicions into the campaign by citing a small tear in the corner of Clinton’s passport application as evidence that someone might have tampered with the file, presumably to remove the supposed letter. She fashioned that speculation into a criminal referral to the FBI.

Within hours, someone from the Bush camp leaked word about the confidential FBI investigation to reporters at Newsweek magazine. The Newsweek story about the tampering investigation hit the newsstands on Oct. 4. The article suggested that a Clinton backer might have removed incriminating material from Clinton’s passport file, precisely the spin that the Bush people wanted.

Immediately, President George H.W. Bush took the offensive, using the press frenzy over the tampering story to attack Clinton’s patriotism on a variety of fronts, including his student trip to Moscow in 1970. With his patriotism challenged, Clinton saw his once-formidable lead shrink. Panic spread through the Clinton campaign.
The Bush camp put out another suspicion, that Clinton might have been a KGB “agent of influence.” Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times headlined that allegation on Oct. 5, 1992, a story that attracted President Bush’s personal interest. “Now there are stories that Clinton … may have gone to Moscow as [a] guest of the KGB,” Bush wrote in his diary that day.
The suspicions about Clinton’s patriotism might have doomed Clinton’s election, except that Spencer Oliver, then chief counsel on the Democratic-controlled House International Affairs Committee, suspected a dirty trick.

“I said you can’t go into someone’s passport file,” Oliver told me in an interview. “That’s a violation of the law, only in pursuit of a criminal indictment or something. But without his permission, you can’t examine his passport file. It’s a violation of the Privacy Act.”

After consulting with House committee chairman Dante Fascell and a colleague on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Oliver dispatched a couple of investigators to the National Archives warehouse in Suitland. The brief congressional check discovered that State Department political appointees had gone out to Suitland at night to search through Clinton’s records and those of his mother.

Oliver’s assistants also found that the administration’s tampering allegation rested on a very weak premise, the slight tear in the passport application. The circumstances of the late-night search soon found their way into an article in the Washington Post, causing embarrassment to the Bush campaign.

Not Letting Go

Yet still sensing that the loyalty theme could hurt Clinton, President Bush kept stoking the fire. On CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Oct. 7, 1992, Bush suggested anew that there was something sinister about a possible Clinton friend allegedly tampering with Clinton’s passport file.
“Why in the world would anybody want to tamper with his files, you know, to support the man?” Bush wondered before a national TV audience. “I mean, I don’t understand that. What would exonerate him – put it that way – in the files?”
The next day, in his diary, Bush ruminated suspiciously about Clinton’s Moscow trip: “All kinds of rumors as to who his hosts were in Russia, something he can’t remember anything about.”
But the GOP attack on Clinton’s loyalty prompted some Democrats to liken Bush to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who built a political career in the early days of the Cold War challenging people’s loyalties without offering proof. On Oct. 9, the FBI complicated Bush’s strategy further by rejecting the criminal referral. The FBI concluded that there was no evidence that anyone had removed anything from Clinton’s passport file.
At that point, Bush began backpedaling: “If he’s told all there is to tell on Moscow, fine,” Bush said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I’m not suggesting that there’s anything unpatriotic about that. A lot of people went to Moscow, and so that’s the end of that one.”
But the documents I obtained years later at the National Archives revealed that privately Bush was not so ready to surrender the disloyalty theme. The day before the first presidential debate on Oct. 11, Bush prepped himself with one-liners designed to spotlight doubts about Clinton’s loyalty if the right opening presented itself.
“It’s hard to visit foreign countries with a torn-up passport,” read one of the scripted lines. Another zinger read: “Contrary to what the Governor’s been saying, most young men his age did not try to duck the draft. … A few did go to Canada. A couple went to England. Only one I know went to Russia.” If Clinton had criticized Bush’s use of a Houston hotel room as a legal residence, Bush was ready to hit back with another Russian reference: “Where is your legal residence, Little Rock or Leningrad?”

PuhLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!!!
This is NO coincidence...Obama has been a world citizen since childhood...stay tuned folks. Hillary has already accused Obama of not visiting NATO countries and we know about his highly ambitious kindergarten essay, lol...it is about to get FAR worse..manufactured dirt is hardest to disprove. We may need the FBI to stop this ANTI-AMERICAN story.

Awesome. The Congress appropriates money. Senators are a part of Congress, correct? So basically, we have employees at Stanley, Inc. breaching the privacy of the people who paid their salaries, sitting U.S. Senators, no less. How great. Let's see how quick it is before we get the full coverup.

Looks like Obama's Halo may have turned to Horns :

The Washington Times, which broke the news Thursday that Obama’s files were improperly accessed, reported Saturday that the State Department inspector general’s internal probe will include polygraph tests of supervisors to determine whether there was a political motive behind the breaches.

The article said a focal point of the probe will be an employee who works for The Analysis Corporation and is still with the company. The firm is headed by John O. Brennan, an Obama adviser, FOX News confirms. The Times reported he advises the Democratic presidential candidate on intelligence and foreign policy matters

One of Obama's advisors on foreign policy and intelligence, the *CEO* of Stanley, does not know how to keep his own employees from accessing Obama's passport files without authorization. Amateur hour indeed!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/passport.files/index.html

I suspect Obama's campaign is now feeling a little embarrassed about pressing this non-story so hard.

First off, this guy is advising Barak on foriegn relations and intelligence...not security. Secondly, where better to pull an advisor than from a corporation made wealthy from the Bush administration's project to privitizatize the government? Thirdly, there is nothing to prove the individuals responsible aren't HRC moles working within Stanley, unbeknownst to anyone in management at either Stanley or Analysis Group, and hoping to sucker the Obama camp into just such a reaction to embarrass Barak. The Clintons figure in here someplace.