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Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security. Despite efforts to boost passport security since the 2001 terror attacks, the investigator fool
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A government investigator says he successfully used fake documents to obtain U.S. passports four separate times.
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A former State Department worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally peeking at scores of confidential passport application files.
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A former State Department worker has pleaded guilty to illegally peeking at scores of confidential passport application files.
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A second former State Department worker has pleaded guilty to illegally peeking at scores of confidential passport application files.
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It’s a year of probation for a former State Department contractor who took illegal peeks at the passport information of nearly 200 celebrities, athletes, actors...
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A State Department contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally looking at the passport information of nearly 200 celebrities, athletes, actors and politicians over a...
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British police say they’ve arrested a delivery man over the theft of thousands of blank British passports and visa stickers.
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Britain’s Foreign Office says thousands of blank British passports have been stolen in a raid on a delivery van.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether State Department employees broke the law by snooping into celebrities’ passport records, Attorney General Michael...
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An internal State Department investigative report suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously...
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An internal State Department investigation suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously disclosed, and...
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While Europe and many countries are locking up refugees, South America is reorganising itself to make borders more a thing of the past.
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A top State Department official responsible for passports has resigned, but the department is refusing to link that to the row over unauthorized peeking into the files...
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State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole...
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State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole...
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The Associated Press has learned that a State Department review has found at least 20 instances of workers peeking at the passport files of high-profile Americans,...
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The Passport Information Electronic Retrieval System (PIERS) that State Department contract workers snooped into to view presidential candidates’ records without...
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Struggling with a deluge in passport applications, the State Department did what much of the government does to deal with a manpower crunch: It hired more private...
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Kosovo Albanian woman Teuta Begolli shows her new passport after it was presented by Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, six months after the parliament unilaterally declared independence from Serbia, in Kosovo’s capital Pristina Wednesday, July 30,...
