Government Privacy Abuse
After a Congressional committee held a hearing in March 2015 about Secret Service corruption, how long did it take before a Secret Service agent illegally accessed the committee chairman's personnel file?
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The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General found that within 18 minutes of the start of the hearing, a Secret Service agent illegally accessed the personnel file of Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz. In the wake of this hearing, 45 Secret Service employees accessed Chaffetz's file, even though "only four had an arguably legitimate need to do so."
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