Apparently Senator Barack Obama's private passport files were breached on no less that 3 separate occasions by contract workers at the State Department. Glenn Greenwald writes:

This disturbing episode provides yet more vivid proof of how dangerous and misguided it is to continue to vest the Federal Government with the power to spy and collect data on the activities of its citizens, and, particularly, to do so without any oversight or real safeguards.

Go read the whole thing.