Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's passport file.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the department itself detected the instances of "imprudent curiosity," which occurred separately on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14. He would not release the names of those who were fired and disciplined.

"Imprudent curiousity...." I like that. It's new. And so much better than "over zealous." That was a little shopworn. And I wonder what company the contractor was from, and whether the contractors graduated from Regent University.

But seriously, this is a very big deal. Why, the next thing you know, they'll be reading all our mail!