Government Computers Used To Find Information On Joe The Plumber
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Investigators trying to determine whether access was illegal By Randy Ludlow - The Columbus Dispatch “State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama. The ...

Government Computers Used to Dig Up Information on Joe the Plumber
(Obsolete Feed) — ... It looks like people may have been illegally, or at least inappropriately, poking around in government databases looking for information about Joe Wurzelbacher: ...

Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on Joe the Plumber
Little Green Footballs — ... Government computers in Ohio may have been illegally accessed to find information on Joe the Plumber. ...

Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... three times shortly after the debate. Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department. It has not been determined who checked on Wurzelbacher, or why. Direct access to driver's license and vehicle registration information from BMV computers is restricted to legitimate law enforcement and government business.Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories... Note that this has no demonstrated linkage ...

Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber
The Jawa Report — October 25, 2008 Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber Ace of Spades blog late yesterday hinted that this story was coming... Via The Columbus Dispatch "State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber." Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama. The ...

Plumber Joe’s Continuing Political Education
Pirate's Cove — ... The media were incredibly interested in the BIG, MASSIVE story on Palin’s clothes. Will any of them pick up this story from the Columbas Dispatch? Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber ...

Plumber Joe’s Continuing Political Education
Stop The ACLU — The media were incredibly interested in the BIG, MASSIVE story on Palin’s clothes. Will any of them pick up this story from the Columbas Dispatch? Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber “State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher’s driver’s license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles ...

Government Computers Used To Find Information On Joe The Plumber
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Investigators trying to determine whether access was illegal Friday, October 24, 2008 By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch “State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Is This What a "Transformed" US Would Look Like?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — After the third debate where John McCain invoked Joe the Plumber to great effect, government computers were used to try to find dirt on Joe. And this morning, the New York Post reports that ...

Ohio Government Employees Used Government Computers to Dig Up Information on Joe the Plumber
Wizbang — ... last night. Here's the story from The Columbus Dispatch : "State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber." Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama. The 34-year-old from the Toledo suburb of Holland is held out by McCain as an example of an American who would be harmed by ...

Chilling: Government Computers Used to Go After A Private Citizen who Questioned A Presidential Candidate
Corrente — Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber Investigators trying to determine whether access was illegal Friday, October 24, 2008 8:57 PM By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch “State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” “…Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher’s driver’s license or his ...

How did people get dirt on Joe the Plumber?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... How did so much information about Joe Wurzelbacher’s taxes and licensing get out to the public so quickly?  Officials in Ohio want to know the answer.  They apparently suspect that state and local government systems got exploited in order to attack Joe the Plumber: State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John ...

Welcome to Obamaworld
JammieWearingFool — Here in Obamaworld, we think only happy thoughts of hope and change, where magic unicorns bring us promises of the world loving us again and where everyone lives in perfect harmony. Just make sure, whatever you do, you do not question the Dear Leader of Obamaworld. Otherwise, your life will be ruined. Keep smiling, bitches . "State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber." Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political ...

Joe's tax dollars at work! (Against Joe.)
Classical Values — ... of Joe the Plumber's privacy thusly: The way they have done a complete, invasive background check on this citizen is shocking. While few of us would withstand close scrutiny, what annoys me the most is that the dirt-digging has been done by the news media, and they have now essentially sicced the bureaucrats on this guy... When I wrote that, I thought the bureaucrats might have been merely reacting to information dug up by invasive reporters. Silly me. It now appears that there was government involvement in the dirt-digging itself: "State and local officials are ...

“Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber”
protein wisdom — “Investigators trying to determine whether access was illegal.” From the Columbus Dispatch : State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama. The 34-year-old from the Toledo suburb of Holland is held out by McCain as an example of an ...

"Criminal in nature"
The Reality-Based Community — ... Right. The notion that Joe the Cranky Racist Non-Plumber ought to have been immune from criticism after he chose to make himself a campaign issue is absurd. But invading his privacy by using the authority of enforcement agencies to access his motor-vehicle records is, as it should be should be, a crime. Naturally, the McCain campaign is charging the Obama campaign with complicity. So far, there's no basis in fact for that charge, but that's true of most of what McCain has said about Obama this year. Ignore it. Still, at least three people almost certainly broke the law. And ...

Instapundit — MORE CAMPAIGN THUGGISHNESS: State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber." . . . Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate. Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney ...

Let the Wild Charges Begin: McCain Campaign Insinuates Joe the Plumber's Private Records Were Illegally Breached as "Political Retribution" by the Obama Campaign, Compares it to Watergate
Political Punch — ... Let the Wild Charges Begin: McCain Campaign Insinuates Joe the Plumber's Private Records Were Illegally Breached as "Political Retribution" by the Obama Campaign, Compares it to Watergate October 25, 2008 6:25 PM The Columbus Dispatch reports that "state and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about 'Joe the Plumber,'" the nickname of Joe Wurzelbacher."Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his ...

Privacy? Rights?
QandO — I assume those who were so horribly upset that the US wanted to listen in on the phone calls of terrorists will be just as profoundly upset about this: ...

A snapshot of the future under the Democrat leadership
Commonsense & Wonder — Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber Investigators trying to determine whether access was illegal By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch“State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama. The 34-year-old ...

Democrats Abuse Government To Go After Joe the Plumber
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... More troubling, comes a weekend report from the Columbus Dispatch that Obama supporters in government used government computers to access data with which to smear Joe Wurzelbacher a/k/a Joe the Plumber. ...

POLITICS: By Any Means Necessary
Baseball Crank — ... Looks like government computer "accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department" were all used to dig up dirt on Joe the Plumber. The investigation at ...

Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber
USS Neverdock — If Obama is elected, you'll see a lot more of this. A Democrat controlled congress won't investigate and neither will the left wing media currently doing all they can to elect him. Obama will create a police state and there will be no one to stop him. Labels: ...

Government Data Accessed in Campaign to Smear Joe the Plumber
Moonbattery — Here's another foretaste of life in Obama Nation. Joe the Plumber challenged The One's Marxist economic plans and came to symbolize the normal hard-working Americans who would be crushed so that Obama can "spread the wealth around." As punishment, the Obamedia has crawled over Joe Wurzelbacher's life like a plague of cockroaches, waggling its antennae for any information that might discredit him or besmirch his character. Obama hasn't even been elected, but already help appears to be coming from government sources: Information on ...

Just The Harbinger Of Things To Come
sassafrassin.com — ... After Joe Wurzelbacher of Ohio gained fame as “Joe the Plumber” in the course of the current presidential campaign, it seems that he’s drawn more than idle curiosity from people with access to what should probably be confidential information. An anonymous reader writes with a story from The Columbus Dispatch that “government insiders accessed Joe the Plumber’s records soon after the McCain-Obama debate. ‘Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher’s driver’s license or his ...

Dems Violate Privacy Laws To Tar Citizen Who Dared To Question Candidate
Rhymes With Right — I noted how Joe the Plumber was attacked for participating in the democratic process by asking a pointed question of one of the two major party candidates for president. What we now find out is that laws were broken in the process. Where are the howls of outrage from the media and the activists who object to spying on terrorists intent upon attacking American interests and their associates? Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher’s driver’s license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/27/2008
Gates of Vienna — ... Government Computers Were Mined for Information on Joe the Plumber The juicy part of this story is in bold — editor “State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with ...

Ohio State Official Ordered Search of Joe the Plumber's Private Records
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Last week, the Columbus Dispatch reported that it appeared that employees of state and local government agencies improperly delved into Joe Wurzelbacher's personal records after his name was brought up during the last presidential debate: ...