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Well, he’d best make himself clear pretty quick. Using government power to go after anonymous critics is not good.

There is one more thing not related to this. Two years ago a 27 year old perv was stalking our 15 year old daughter. We made the initial report on a Sunday night. AG Corbett had investigators at our house the next afternoon. They were courteous, supportive, helpful and acted within 24 hours.

I agree he needs to get on top of this, but I know we are not getting the real story.

A Corbett spokesman said the subpoena was partly related to a Friday sentencing hearing for former Democratic legislative aide Brett Cott. He is one of three people convicted in March of public corruption charges in the ongoing investigation into the alleged illegal use of legislative employees and government resources to run political campaigns.

The grand jury on May 6 subpoenaed the identities and other information about the two users from Twitter Inc. Corbett's office has been using the highly secretive grand jury process for the past several years to look into allegations that government resources and legislative employees have been illegally used to run political campaigns...Attorney general's office spokesman Kevin Harley said the subpoena "has nothing to do with criticisms of the attorney general."

"There are many bloggers and other Web sites that are critical of the attorney general," Harley said. "That's not what this is about."

Grand jury secrecy makes it difficult, if not impossible, to know why the identities of bfbarbie and CasablancaPA are being sought.

But in an interview with the AP last year, Corbett said he was aware of anonymous critics of his investigation, and mentioned Cott by name.

"We know people like Brett Cott are on the blogs all day, making stuff up," Corbett said.

Cott was an aide to former Rep. Mike Veon, D-Beaver, who also was convicted of multiple counts. Veon's sentencing is scheduled for next month.
Source: AP: ACLU helping guard Twitter posters' IDs in Pa. (MARK SCOLFORO)
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Uh, oh. This is going to be a HUGE public relations nightmare for Corbett!! That quote is going to come back and haunt him.