Passport Backlog Put Data More in Hands of Contractors

The contract employees who snooped into the passport files of two presidential candidates this year were part of a private workforce that has increasingly assumed responsibility for processing the sensitive documents, State Department and industry officials said yesterday.
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Glenn Kessler

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