“(In the half) and I have to tell you that we take very seriously the trust that is put in us, in safeguarding American citizens personal (demits) data.”

Secretary of State Rice expressed regret about the incidents (and) in phone(d) calls to all three presidential candidates including Senator Obama. “(When) I (am) told him that I, myself (will) would be very disturbed (when) if I had learned that somebody (breach) had looked into my passport file and therefore I (was there in) will stay on top of it (to get about) and get to the bottom of it.”

       The State Department is responsible for issuing passports in the United States. Passport files usually contain personal identity information, and may include(ing) information about countries a person has traveled to.

State Department officials became aware of the breaches from a computer monitoring system that flags attempts to access the passport files of high profile people like politicians and celebrities.

Meanwhile, on the presidential campaign trail, Senator Obama got a boost Friday when one of his former rivals New Mexico governor B endorsed him during a campaign rally in Portland O.

NEW WORDS:

high profile: n 鲜明姿态的

TIPS:

录音一团糟。小词：citizen，monitoring。