By the way…

The news stories are out there all over the place today that Barack Obama’s passport files were breached. For most of Friday morning, the headlines carried some version of Obama’s outrage over his personal information being accessed, and some version of Condoleeza Rice’s apology to him for that mistake.

But by mid-day, the rest of the story came out.

All three major presidential candidates have had their passport files breached, the State Department confirmed Friday.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain were informed that their files were improperly accessed not long after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice apologized to Barack Obama for a similar violation.

Interesting, how quickly Obama seized the chance to jump on something to re-direct press attention and turn it into a personal violation.

Obama’s campaign called the breach of his records “outrageous” when the news was brought to their attention Thursday, and even suggested political motives were behind it.

What did the other two candidates say?

“Senator Clinton will closely monitor the State Department’s investigation into this and the other breaches of private passport information,” Clinton’s statement said.

And…

McCain issued a statement saying: “The U.S. government has a responsibility to respect the privacy of all Americans. It appears that privacy was breached and I expect a thorough review and a change in procedures as necessary to ensure the privacy of all passport files.”

At least two of them were measured responses.