PARIS: U.S. Senator John McCain said Friday that any breach of passport privacy deserves an apology and a “full investigation.”
McCain's comments came as the U.S. State Department said that the passport files of McCain and two other presidential candidates — Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton — have been breached.
Reporters asked McCain about the breach of Obama's passport details after he met Friday with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. It was unclear whether McCain was aware that his own passport files had also been breached, as the U.S. State Department confirmed.
“If anyone's privacy is breached, then they deserve an apology and a full investigation and I believe this will take place,” said McCain.
“The United States of America values everyone's privacy and corrective action should be taken,” he said.
U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the individual who accessed Obama's files also reviewed McCain's file. The employee has been reprimanded, but not fired, McCormack said.
“We are reviewing our options with that person” and the contract employee's employment status, McCormack said.

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