The Patriot Post® · Walker Prosecutor Backtracks

The John Doe investigation of Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker was recently suspended, leaving Big Labor activists infuriated. But after documents related to the case were unsealed, leftists joined the vengeance bandwagon by immediately – and erroneously – claiming the papers contained smoking gun evidence of a scandal run by Walker. Not exactly. According to The Wisconsin State Journal, “Gov. Scott Walker has not been a target of the John Doe investigation into alleged illegal campaign finance coordination, an attorney for the special prosecutor overseeing the probe said Thursday.” Importantly, the unsealed documents unveiled the prosecution’s theories concerning the case, not concrete evidence of wrongdoing. But in the mind of a liberal, theories and facts are interchangeable when it comes to advancing the anti-conservative crusade. More…