http://watchdog.org/174987/john-doe-raids-eric-okeefe/
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MADISON, Wis. One year ago, about an hour before dawn, police surrounded the homes of several Wisconsin conservatives and then hit them with floodlights.
One of the targets says police threatened to use battering rams to break down the front door, but the targets let them in.
The fact that Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm is a Democrat and the targets of the simultaneous paramilitary-style raids were all conservatives has generated controversy over the past year.
Under terms of the states so-called John Doe law, targets of such investigations are ordered to keep their prosecution a secretOKeefe is a director of the Wisconsin Club for Growth. While his home was not targeted in the raids, he and the Club for Growth were subpoenaed as part of the same John Doe probe. That subpoena demanded all records and information from the organization, its employees and officers dating back more than four years, to March 2009.
Houses were surrounded and lit up, OKeefe said. Children and spouses were home in multiple cases, and made to suffer through two-and-a-half-hour raiding parties going through all paper files and seizing computers and phones.
Children in multiple cases were told they could not inform their schools why they were late.And then there was the subpoena, signed on Sept. 30, 2013, and delivered to OKeefe the following day. It was so sweeping and extensive that it showed the prosecution had already conducted a sweeping domestic spying operation on my activities,
Chisholm launched the probe in August 2012. According to a whistleblower inside the DAs office, Chisholm was motivated in part, at least, by a personal grudge against Walker.OKeefe said Chisholms attorneys challenged his reports of abusive raids while they insisted on gag orders imposed on their conservative targets.
The investigation into the conservative organizations is just the latest iteration of a continuing series of the John Doe shakedown of Walkers allies since May 2010.
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