I think the prosecutor who is doing this political witch hunt needs to be brought to justice himself. It should be a big dang deal to have this happening over and over again in the US."
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Sara - there is nothing that can be done in this instance.
In this instance, at least one Milwaukee County employee of then-County Exec Scott Walker who was also a political supporter of Walker's gubernatorial election campaign used county computers during county work time to respond to articles and web postings that were negative to Walker on the Journal-Sentinel website. The individual involved accepted responsibility for his actions and was fired.
DA Chisholm is using the incident to allege that the employee's actions were directed by Walker, Walker aides or the Walker gubernatorial campaign. If that occurred, it is a criminal act.
Enforcement of that violation is generally applied only against Republican politicians by partisan Democrat DA's. Dozens of documented incidents in 2010 & 2011 of Democrat candidates (legislators, teachers and other government employees) using government email accounts, computers and other equipment for campaign purposes that have not been investigated or prosecuted by Democrat county DA's from across the state. Useless RINO State Attorney General JB Van Hollen has also failed to act on these cases.
Anyway, Chisholm only needs to have the cloak of a possible criminal violation to "persuade" a Democrat Milawukee County judge to order a John Doe investigation. With a John Doe, a DA is permitted to use the FBI to investigate the matter and gather evidence.
Even though neither patisan hack DA Chisholm or the partisan hack judge acutally believe a crime has been committed, the cloak shields them from any provable charge of misconduct in office.
It sucks that Democrats can abuse the rules to harrass Republican politicians, but that's just the way it is. And it will continue to be that way until a Republican DA abuses the rules to harrass a prominent Democrat politician. Only when Democrats understand that they too can be made subject to the same Star Chamber proceedings as Republicans, the bogus John Doe investigations will stop.
In the meantime, because John Doe investigations are secret (even though Chisholm's office is leaking like a sieve to liberal interest groups and media outlets), we have no actual idea exact idea about what or who is being investigated. Given the pressure being placed on top Walker aides who have moved from Milwaukee County government to his Administration in Madison, we can assume that Walker is the ultimate target of the imagined "crime".
We "know" that DA Chisholm is conducting a partisan hack fishing expedition to harrass Gov. Walker, we just can't prove it or do anything about it.
If we can not legally hold them accountable for abusing the power of their office, can we at least prepare a huge political backlash against them for acting as KGB agents and conducting political witch hunts under the color of law.
Can we make their lives miserable...recall the judge and have the next Republican administration fire the DA? We have to make it costly for the communists who do this in the US. We need to follow these people to the ends of the earth and haunt every breath they take after their witch hunts are concluded and they find nothing. It is terrifying and makes politics if one is not a communist, risky.