Journalists Mislead Readers About Scott Walker and State Malicious Prosecution

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Scott Walker: “I will not back down”
Posted by William A. Jacobson Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 10:41am
Every single conservative blog and website should run Gov. Walker’s column to counter the media malpractice about the false criminal accusations.

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[From article]
in 2012, Democratic district attorneys in Wisconsin launched a secret probe known as a John Doe investigation with the goal of proving that conservative groups illegally coordinated activities during Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election. They issued more than 100 subpoenas, demanded the private information of conservatives and conservative groups, and actually conducted secret raids. And under state law, individuals who were targeted or witness to the investigation were forbidden from making knowledge of it public.
Fortunately, judges saw right through this partisan abuse of power. Early this year, a state judge, ruling in a secret proceeding, quashed the subpoenas and all but ended the investigation.
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The New York Times, trumpeting the story on today’s front page, also uses the present tense to give the wrong impression. The piece begins “Prosecutors in Wisconsin assert that Gov. Scott Walker was part of an elaborate effort to illegally coordinate fund-raising and spending.” Again, the true story is that this took place last year and was ended by the courts.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/20/a-basic-primer-on-the-scott-walker-case-for-ignorant-reporters/

A Basic Primer On The Scott Walker Case For Ignorant Reporters
JUNE 20, 2014

By Gabriel Malor