Nothing To See Here. Running Background Checks On Citizens Who Question THE ONE Is Just Doing Our Job. Move Along. (UPDATED)

Making Barack Obama look bad is reasonable grounds for a search these days. Really:

A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on "Joe the Plumber" were more extensive than it first acknowledged.

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, (and just coincidentally, a big Obama supporter -.ed), disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system.

The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote.

UPDATE 01NOV08: And now, it appears, there may well be a cover-up about who ordered the inquiries, and why. This reeks. I mean, Watergate reeks. But, no one is going to get a Pulitzer for going after The Messiah.