HoodaThunk?

Someone from inside the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency used their access to government databases restricted to law enforcement and official government business to pull information on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher’s (a.k.a. “Joe the Plumber”) driver’s license and/or his vehicle registration, according to reports. You’ll note that Cuyahoga County is nowhere near Toledo, Joe’s place of residence. And I can assure you that if this agency had had legitimate business looking up Joe’s info, the media would have already made sure we all knew every detail about it.

Also accessing this information were people with accounts assigned to the office of Ohio’s Attorney General Nancy Rogers and the Toledo Police Department. Now, the fact that the local police department might run someone’s registration or driver’s license is hardly a stretch so I consider that to be a non-issue. The Attorney General’s office might have been running that info merely to compile a profile for the AG but it’s worth looking into what, exactly, they pulled and – more importantly – who they shared that info with. But that first one, folks… that one smells of someone abusing their access. I can only imagine where the info gathered from that location wound up but I’m betting it was somewhere the MSM could read it.

An investigation is defintely called for and, if someone accessed those records illegally, prosecution should immediately follow.