Justice Dept. to follow up on passport snooping

A pedestrian holds her and her child's passport while waiting to cross into the United States from Mexico at the San Ysidro border crossing in San Ysidro, California By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey pledged on Wednesday to follow up on a State Department investigation into unauthorized snooping into passport records, a probe that began after the files of three presidential candidates were improperly accessed. "If somebody committed a crime we are going to do our level best to make sure that somebody goes to jail, because that is ... the ultimate deterrent," Mukasey told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The State Department's Office of Inspector General began a probe after the disclosure in March that workers obtained unauthorized access to records of Republican Sen. John McCain... [read full story]