Worker Forced to Cover-up Illegal Investigation into Joe the Plumber’s Personal Records

 I know that in my last post about Joe the Plumber I said that it would be my last post about Joe the plumber but there is new information that I must write about. According to this article there was a cover-up about the illegal spying into Joe the plumber’s personal records.

The state worker who unwittingly ran an improper child-support check on the man known as Joe the Plumber told lawmakers yesterday that a deputy director later “dictated” how she was supposed to cover it up.

 Vanessa Niekamp, an administrator for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services’ Office of Child Support and a 15-year state employee, said that when Deputy Director Doug Thompson came into her office, “He appeared very upset, his neck was bright red, and he was shaking. He closed my door.”

Thompson told her she must write an e-mail to the agency’s information-security officer, and then “dictated word for word” what she wrote, Niekamp said. He also reminded her that she could be fired at any time, she said.

 This story is relevant, no matter what the left believes, because it is an example of what can happen if you oppose Barack Obama. Joe the plumber’s only crime was to ask Barack Obama a question. Because of this crime he was targeted by Obama’s surrogates, his personal life was exposed, he was attacked, and his files were illegally breached. (And the left claims that President Bush is spying on Americans.) Joe the plumber posed a threat to Obama and so there was a smear campaign waged against this ordinary American. That is a true violation of the same variety that the left has accused President Bush.

 It was decided that Joe the plumber’s  files were illegally accessed and now we have learned that Vanessa Niekamp was forced to cover up this crime. Unfortunately she will take the fall for the fact that one man dared to question Barack Obama.

 Obama’s surrogates were willing to sink to this depth in order to get him elected, what depths will they sink to now that he is president?