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Bill Hobbs is not satisfied that the actions of rogue state trooper Ronnie Shirley have been thoroughly investigated:

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen says the results of the Tennessee Highway Patrol's self-investigation of a politically-connected trooper's unauthorized background checks on hundreds of Tennesseans proves the agency can police itself. (Tennessean story here.)

Here’s the full presser:

THP TERMINATES LIEUTENANT RONNIE SHIRLEY FOLLOWING PROBE

DUE PROCESS LETTER OF TERMINATION SERVED

The THP “snooper trooper” set to be sacked:

A Bredesen administration official tells The Associated Press that the Tennessee Highway Patrol is firing a trooper found to have made unauthorized background checks.

The second journalist investigated by rogue THP officer Ronnie Shirley was Victoria Hansen:

A former News 2 anchor was one of two journalists whose personal background was accessed by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper currently on administrative leave.

Tennessee Republican Party spokesman Bill Hobbs wants you to get in touch if the THP has been in contact with you about being on “the list”:

Two names. Two connections to politics and the Bredesen administration.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol now says it won't release the list of 182 targets of the unauthorized criminal background checks run by Lt Ronnie Shirley, the trooper with ties to the Bredesen administration. The THP's rationale: it claims the list is "evidence" in a possible criminal case.

Tennessean colunist Gail Kerr asks two great questions about why the Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper who ran unauthorized background checks on hundreds of Tennesseans hasn't been fired ye

From Theo Emery:

A Tennessee Highway Patrol officer ran a background check of Tennessean reporter Brad Schrade shortly after Schrade wrote about punishments doled out to troopers for leaking information.

This is not good news - if you're the people who put Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt.