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State Replaces Top Passport Official

I believe the appropriate reaction to this is "Hmmmm":

Two weeks after it was revealed that State Department employees were found snooping on five different occasions in the passport files of all three Presidential candidates, a State Department official tells NBC that the top official for Passport Services is being replaced.

The department intends to name a new acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services to replace Ann Barrett who will be stepping aside.

The official declined to offer an explanation as to why Barrett is being replaced, but the timing comes in the midst of a State Department Inspector General investigation into the passport breaches.


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Well, silly, clearly Ms. Barrett felt a sudden burning need "to spend more time with her family."

This is such a nonstory. Does anyone have even the slightest faith that a Bush administration department will investigate itself in a meaningful way?

Barrett was a career civil servant. She has worked in passports for years.

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