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UPDATED: Clinton campaign has a weird obsession with Obama's overseas travels

So who would have been interested in Barack Obama's overseas travels, anyway?Well, maybe it's just a coincidence, but Hillary Clinton's campaign sure was.

So who would have been interested in Barack Obama's overseas travels, anyway?

Well, maybe it's just a coincidence, but Hillary Clinton's campaign sure was (huge h/t johndeebo).

This is from a March 12 press release from Lee Feinstein, the Clinton campaign national security advisor:

As voters evaluate you as a potential Commander-in-Chief, do you think it's legitimate for people to be concerned that you have traveled to only one NATO country, on a brief stopover trip in 2005, and have never traveled to Latin America?

How did they know so much about Obama's travels. We already know, from the February flap over the now famous "African garb" picture of Obama taken in 2005 in Kenya -- leaked by Clinton supporters to the Drudge Report -- that Clinton backers have taken an interest in their rival's trips abroad.

This was linked to last night -- but here' another probe into alleged discrepancies over Obama's European travel. (Note: I don't believe the blogger here, Steve Clemons, is supporting a candidate.)

All circumstantial, but there's a lot of strange loose ends here that need to be checked out, for sure.

UPDATE: Adding here...Just saying that when you investigate something -- and this will hopefully be investigated thoroughly -- one of the first questions is who benefits. Other than the Africa picture, which I wrote about at the time, I was unaware and a little surprised at the extent the Clinton campaign has made an issue of such matters. Just reminding folks that there are several groups -- in both parties -- with a political motive, or maybe it's all a case of George Clooney syndrome run amok. A start would be the revelation of the identity of the people who committed this offense.

In fact, as I write these words comes news that Sen. Clinton's file was breached, too.

Anyone check McCain's file yet?