[EagleUSA]

A state agency director had no legitimate reasons to check state computer systems for confidential information on “Joe the Plumber,” according to a report released this afternoon by Ohio’s inspector general.
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Just a very ugly view of government oppression, intimidation and abuse of authority -— things to come.

[buccaneer81]

A copy of the report is Here 48 Pages.

[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to East Germany or what?

Shades of the Stazi..

[Red Badger]

Helen Jones-Kelley......HYPHENATED NAME ALERT!!..........

[aWolverine]

And the “discipline” the clerk faces is exactly what? A note in her HR file that will expire if she attends a Diversity class?

[A Texan]

Just another step closer to our inevitable Orwellian future.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Thrown under the bus for following the orders of her supe. Next.

[Izzy Dunne]

persons thrust into the pubic spotlight,

Dontcha hate it when THAT happens!

[timestax]

[DBrow]

This is why libs want to end internet anonymity.

Alinsky says to combat an enemy, identify it, freeze it, personalize it, demonize it, give it a person's name- (It's Bush's Fault for example).

If someone today says on Free Republic, “Barack Hussain Obama is a murtad fitri”, they can't do to the poster what they did to Joe the Plumber.

As soon as “Joe” was identified they were all over him. The “volunteers” in media and government dug up stuff in two days that the man himself did not know.

[clifcrds]

The report reached no conclusion on whether Jones-Kelley's approval of the checks were politically motivated.

This statement is BEYOND even "Willful Disbelief"!

Even Helen Keller could see the political connection here.

This incredulous statement to the public the office of the Inspector General reminds me of that story of how the blind man went to the show and then came home and told the deaf man what he saw.

[DejaJude]

She later wrote that the computer checks were "consistent with past departmental practice" of checking on persons thrust into the pubic spotlight, amid suggestions they may have money, to determine if are receiving public assistance or owe taxes or child support.
The Dispatch also revealed three improper inquiries on secured computer systems into Wurzelbacher's driving and vehicle registration information at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

What would happen if this were done to Hispanics or Muslims or gays (insert other victim status here) thrust into the spotlight?

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.sonyclassics.com/thelivesofothers/swf/index.html
The lives of others

Coming soon to a government near you.

Rent the DVD today!

[Tzimisce]

Get ready for more of this.

A lot more.

[volslover]

The appropriate prosecutor for that area should be filing charges for abuse or misuse of state property for what they did to that man. Not just one agency checked but several did. Seems like a coordinated effort to me to harass the guy. Someone should be made an example of on this to stop this from happening to this scale in the future.

[SueRae]

And I’ll bet my payheck that this woman and her ilk are for repealing the Patriot Act. Paid leave? I hope Joe sues her and the state.

[NonValueAdded]

Painfully obvious but the square had to be colored in before the appropriate action can be taken.

[DouglasKC]

Am I wrong in assuming that the majority of government workers are Democrats? If so what a sorry state of affairs. The apparatus from top to bottom is stinking, corrupt and slanted heavily against anyone but democrats.

[kidd]

I’m bumping this 2008 article to the top.
Perhaps it has relevance to the IRS scandal.