[WHBates]

"He then told me that we needed to make sure that we answer questions about what happened the same way, so that our versions were not different from each other. Before he said that, he reminded me that I was an unclassified employee -- which, as you may know, is someone who can be fired without cause."

For no other reason than this he should be fired, but possibly spend some time in jail.

[Big_Monkey]

Not that the Feds spend a lot of time publicizing these things, but I’m very surprised I haven’t read anywhere about a Federal civil rights investigation with respect to this matter.

I agree that jail time seems to be in order for at least two of the known conspirators - and by the testimony already given to the Ohio House committee, there does seem to have been a conspiracy, at least after-the-fact.

[tbw2]

The other possibility is that they wanted her gone. So they had the inappropriate access done by her, with her user ID, so that they could follow the law and fire her for breaking the law. And it covers their butts, saying they fired the inappropriate data accessor.