I had no idea that the KGB were back in business:
A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on “Joe the Plumber” were more extensive than it first acknowledged.
Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system.
The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote.
Jones-Kelley made the revelations in a letter to Ohio Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland, who demanded answers on why state officials checked out Wurzelbacher.
Harris called the multiple records checks “questionable” and said he awaits more answers. “It’s kind of like Big Brother is looking in your pocket,” he said.
As the story indicates, Jones-Kelly donated $2,500 to the Obama campaign. The story “uncovered four uses of state computer systems to access personal information on Wurzelbacher.” As Auric Goldfinger put it, “once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.”
What precisely do we call it when something nefarious happens for the fourth time?

Probably only the CIA or NSA has more access
Achance Friday, October 31st at 1:11AM EDT (link)to information about you than does a Child Support Agency. It’s an ideal place for Democrat operatives; lots of lesbian social workers, lots of union stewards, sort of a petri dish for CHANGE.
In Vino Veritas
Obama's Lies about his Mother
angels16 Friday, October 31st at 1:15AM EDT (link)Around my courthouse
Lammo Friday, October 31st at 1:16AM EDT (link)we have a saying: If you hear it from one person it’s a rumor, if you hear it from two people it’s a fact, and if you hear it from three people it’s admissible.
Any claim that snooping through state databases for dirt on Joe the Plumber was innocent and not motivated by partisan interest fails the most basic of smell tests. Whether they support the junior senator from Illinois or Senator McCain, there need to be jobs lost and jail cell doors slamming for those responsible.
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties. (jupitersuite)
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (Fr. John Corapi, SOLT)
Crime never takes a holiday. (Dennis J. O’Shea, R.I.P.)
Unlawful is against the law. Illegal is a sick bird. (Ooold joke)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)
Just Imagine if Obam's elected how many people he has grudges against will be investigated.
DavidS1787 Friday, October 31st at 1:55AM EDT (link)Vote
McCain/Palin
Anyone remember...
DRP Friday, October 31st at 2:45AM EDT (link)When this happened with all the candiadate’s passport files?
Easily abused government databases creep me out. This is, at least, something of a bipartisan issue… the liberal concern over the provisions of the PATRIOT act and the conservative concern over the access given to social workers are both quite valid. Whatever happened to privacy in this country?
Clinton's flat out disappeared in 1992
hunter Friday, October 31st at 6:19AM EDT (link)The freedom and security we enjoy is in many ways illusory.
hunter
Ohio: The Venezuela of the Midwest
CroakerNorge Friday, October 31st at 6:29AM EDT (link)Recall, anyone in Ohio?
The Secretary of State planning, executing, and profiting from fraud by the Secretary of State? The governor approving of fraud by the director of Ohio’s Job and Family Services Division? Government officials doing background research for the media by looking at private records?
Hello, Ohio. It’s time for a recall.