WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators from both parties are calling for a Justice Department investigation of the snooping into candidates' passport files.
Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice apologized to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain after the department confirmed that workers had been peeking at the files. Two of those workers have been fired. And the State Department's inspector general is investigating.
Republican Senator Arlen Specter tells CNN that it's a "despicable" breach of privacy. He's calling for a "very intense investigation." Specter is the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Democrat Ron Wyden agrees. And he says there have been warnings for a decade from congressional investigators about this sort of problem. Wyden accuses the Bush administration of having "a culture of disregard for privacy."
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