The Secretary of State called Obama this morning to apologize for the unauthorized passport breaches, First Read reports.

"I told him that I was sorry, and I told him that I myself would be very disturbed if I learned somebody had looked into my passport," she said. "We are very concerned about this."

"We are going to do an investigation through the inspector general, who will get to the bottom of it to make certain nothing ... was going on"

The State Department is in contact with Obama's office and will provide briefings. "None of us wants to have a circumstance in which any Americans passport file is looked at in an unauthorized way," Rice added.

This passport story, ironically, probably comes as a welcome bit of news for Obama, whose month of March hasn't exactly gone all that swimmingly. When in the crosshairs, the best a candidate can do is change the subject.