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I've Grown a Custom to Your Face

Posted Jul 4th 2008 11:50AM by TMZ Staff

Customs officials aren't the only ones interested in celebrity passports. State Department employees may be more interested in Britney Spears that you would ever have thunk.
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An internal audit shows widespread, improper accessing of famous people's passports. The audit checked 150 notable celebs, including entertainers, athletes and politicos. 85% of them had been accessed 4,148 times between September 2002 and March 2008. State Dept. officials say that is way excessive and they smell a rat.

The audit doesn't mention specific celebs, but you gotta believe Britney is on the list. J. Edgar Hoover lives on!

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1. First! I love BARACK. Leave him alone!

Posted at 10:32AM on Jul 4th 2008 by proud2bBlack

2. This is celebrity news? Okie Dokie, happy 4th of July everyone...

Posted at 10:33AM on Jul 4th 2008 by Kelli

3. Hello?? Hasn't anyone thunk that maybe it's the paparazzi and affiliations bribing these officials into letting them know where the celebrities are going?

Posted at 10:55AM on Jul 4th 2008 by Cornflakes

4. Hello! Where is my option for none of them. Must be a slow day at TMZ.

Posted at 11:23AM on Jul 4th 2008 by KS

5. I don't get it. What is in your Passport file that isn't common knowledge. I doubt we could get a closer look at Spears than we have already seen right here on TMZ!

Posted at 11:57AM on Jul 4th 2008 by Rockmelon

6. J. Edgar was FBI not the passport office, bad analogy.

Posted at 12:26PM on Jul 4th 2008 by Mel

7. Who cares where people have gone? Why does it matter?

Posted at 12:31PM on Jul 4th 2008 by Alanna

8. Correction: Intro headline should read "I"ve Grown Accustom to Your face " not that anyone there is paying attention.Second typo I've seen today. Writers should know better.

Posted at 1:24PM on Jul 4th 2008 by Vintage '51

9. Arrrgh. I doubt there's any J-Edgar-ism here. More than likely just the curious bureaucrats.

Posted at 9:27AM on Jul 5th 2008 by Brer Rabbit

10. Hi, um is it just me or do celebrities, politicians and business people travel a lot out of country? I mean now you need a passport to travel between Canada and the US. Come on this is BS

Posted at 2:42PM on Jul 4th 2008 by Confused

11. Idiots. If the law allows for these people to access the files, they can do it a 1,000,000 times and it is completely legal and nothing "covert". They have a legal right to do it.

Posted at 7:16PM on Jul 4th 2008 by Dan