Investigation Concludes that Joe the Plumber’s Personal Information was Illegally Accessed

 Just when you thought that you wouldn’t have to read another post about Joe the plumber it is time for one last post on good ole Joe. An investigation has concluded that Joe the plumber’s records were accessed illegally after he was thrust into the spotlight during the presidential campaign.

An agency director improperly used state computers to find personal information on “Joe the Plumber,” a government watchdog said in a report released Thursday.
 
There was no legitimate business purpose for the head of Ohio’s Department of Job and Family Services to order staff to look up the records, Inspector General Tom Charles said.

 Yet they could find no proof that the activity was politically motivated.

“All these searches were done in the midst of a national political campaign,” the report said. “But we did not find any evidence that shows the data was accessed or information released in response to media requests in an effort to support any political activity or agenda.”

 Joe the plumber asked Barack Obama a question that prompted an unusual letting down the guard of Barack Obama and in a rare show of authenticity he revealed himself as a socialist. Within hours Joe’s private records were viewed and leaked to the public. Was this just a coincidence? I don’t think so.

 The media learned more about Joe the plumber’s background within hours than they uncovered about Barack Obama’s background in two years of campaigning. Of course the breech was politically motivated.

 Some of the same people who claim that President Bush is spying on Americans and listening to every American’s private phone conversations are the same people who had no problem spying on Joe the plumber for his “crime” of asking Barack Obama a question.

 And now even if it can’t be proved that it was politically motivated, we all know it was, it has at least been admitted that it was illegal.