State Dept. contractors peek at Obama file

The State Department said Thursday that it fired two people and disciplined a third for inappropriately looking at the passport file of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said there were three instances in which contract employees at the State Department looked at the private passport file of the Illinois Democrat, a file that is by law generally private.

"We believe this was out of imprudent curiosity, so we are taking steps to reassure ourselves that that is, in fact, the case," McCormack said.