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Instapundit — ... WOW: Six Agencies Illegally Scoured Joe the Plumber's Records for Dirt, Including Office of the Attorney General, So That Information Could Be Turned Over to National Media. ...

Six Agencies Searched for Data on Joe the Plumber
Power Line — ... I'm guessing this is the final count: no fewer than six different Ohio agencies dug through their records, looking for dirt on Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher. Why? The Ohio Tax Department says it was so they could "turn [it] over to the national media." The moral of the story, I suppose, is that if a Presidential candidate ever accosts you in your yard, you should flee. If he's a Democrat, anyway. ...

Constitutions Shredded
protein wisdom — Constitutions Shredded by six government agencies illegally investigating Joe the Plumber (American citizen guilty of sudden fame) for having had the audacity to ask an uncomfortable question of The One. Posted by Dan Collins @ ...

Good news: Six Ohio state agencies now accused of snooping on Joe the Plumber
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Via Ace . You guys are always complaining how the media doesn’t do enough fact-checking. Well, cheer up: Apparently, the government’s ...

Public service
Belmont Club — ... reports that as many as half a dozen Ohio state agencies may have investigated the man who challenged Barack Obama’s tax policies to help out the national media, who unfortunately didn’t have any reporters on the spot. (Hat tip Ace of Spades ) Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles said his office is now looking at a half-dozen agencies that accessed state records on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. … Kohlstrand said that the AG’s office wanted access to the records so they could turn over to the national media lien information that was a public record in Lucas County. He said the ...

Say It Isn't So, O!
small dead animals — Say It Isn't So, O! " Six Agencies Illegally Scoured Joe the Plumber's Records for Dirt, Including Office of the Attorney General, So That Information Could Be Turned Over to National Media." That'll teach him! But the bigger question being asked by Americans today is this: ...

“Verizon fires workers over Obama cell phone records breach”
protein wisdom — ... records unless asked to do so by the customer. The source also said the employees in question could not have read text messages, if Obama sent or received them, and would not have been able to access the content of any voice mail messages, although they would have been able to see whether any had been left.“This was some employees’ idle curiosity,” the source said, adding that records of no other customers of note were breached. Wow, the speed at which a private company moves, eh? Whereas … Gee. I can’t wait until universal healthcare! You…? (h/t Dan)