Larry Johnson to be on Anderson Cooper (UPDATED from Larry Johnson)
By SusanUnPC on March 20, 2008 at 9:56 PM in Current Affairs
About the Obama State Department whatever-it-is.
UPDATE (From Larry Johnson)–Folks, this is really a non-story. If high level political appointees were involved then one could make the case that someone was up to something unsavory. But you have two low level contractors and different points in time. The State Department will probably have to do an official investigation to demonstrate they were not acting on behalf of a candidate. However, they were fired when their bosses at State discovered they had been snooping.
But what could they find: Apart from his Social Security Number, all other information on the passport application is already public by virtue of Barack’s books and what has been written about him during his presidential campaign. Here’s the application. Look at it for your self. I am assuming he had a passport as very young child by virtue of his travel to Indonesia. So there may be some unflattering passport photos. But otherwise, he has not been a globetrotter. We know he has not visited Europe. His only real overseas travel before joining the Senate was to Africa. And the passport records do not contain info about that trip, other than the date he made the trip. People with no need to know should not have been checking out his documents, but at the end of the day there is no there there.
(Hat tip to CS for getting me the youtube version of my chat with Anderson Cooper. Great work as always.)
