The State Department first(ly) announced that the passport file of Senator Barack Obama had been breached 3 times since January (of) this year. (But) The Department says two contract workers were dismissed in connection with those incidents and (the) a third was reprimanded and Department spokesman later acknowledged that Senator Hillary Clinton’s passport file had also been breached last year.

       Campaigning in O, Obama told reporters he expects a full and thorough congressional investigation. “One of the things (will be) that the American people count on in (annual action) their interactions, with any level of government (it) is (a bit) that if they have to disclose personal information (that is a state of) then it is going to stay personal, (a state of) and stay private.”

       State Department spokesman S also said one of the contract workers who had accessed Senator Obama’s file had also improperly breached the file of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain. McCain was traveling in France and said the breach incidents require an apology and a full investigation. “The United States of America values everyone’s privacy and (creative) corrective action should be taken.”

       Spokesman M said the State Department’s office(s) of inspector(ed in January) general is already investigating the incidents and whether (there) they were politically motivated.

NEW WORDS:

Thorough：a 完全，十分

Presumptive：a 假定的

Corrective：a 纠正的

TIPS:

       小词：interaction，general。