The Underground Conservative

Michelle Malkin reports that the Ohio employee who searched state records for dirt on Joe the Plumber, did so under orders:

(Ohio Department of Job and Family Services) Director Helen Jones-Kelley said her agency checks people who are “thrust into the public spotlight,” amid suggestions they may have come into money, to see if they owe support or are receiving undeserved public assistance.

(Ohio Department of Job and Family Services senior manager Vanessa) Niekamp told The Dispatch she is unfamiliar with the practice of checking on the newly famous. “I’ve never done that before, I don’t know of anybody in my office who does that and I don’t remember anyone ever doing that,” she said today.

Well, what a surprise. And as Michelle Malkin asks, where are “the left-wing privacy champions?” You know, the ones who demand that we not listen in on terrorists making cell phone calls to terror-sponsoring countries?