All this flap about some contract employees reviewing the U.S. passport records of the major presidential candidates seems to me to be a little misguided. What worries me isn’t that some non-government-employee contractors reviewed these files…what frightens me is that the United States government is maintaining detailed records on its citizens who travel abroad. I’m not surprised that “security” was breeched (any time there’s a database, information from it will be stolen), but I am terrified that people in this country who have done nothing wrong, who have done nothing whatsoever other than visit a foreign country, are being so closely and secretly monitored by the government. Orwell wouldn’t have been surprised, I suppose…