Audio contradicts Scott Walker aide's description of raid

[riversedge]

Source: AP




Audio contradicts Scott Walker aide's description of raid

1 hour ago • By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press
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A newly unsealed audio recording made by law enforcement officers as they raided the home of a former longtime aide to Gov. Scott Walker contradicts her description of how the search warrant was executed.

The audio file was submitted to federal court in response to a lawsuit Walker’s former aide Cindy Archer filed against prosecutors who led the John Doe investigation. The file was unsealed Monday and first posted online Tuesday by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.



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Archer claimed in her lawsuit that officers threw the search warrant at her without giving her an opportunity to read it. In a National Review article, Archer said the lead investigator “towered over me with his finger in my face and yelled like a drill sergeant that I either do it his way or he would handcuff me.”

Nothing sounding like that was audible on the recording made public. Instead, Weiss can be heard explaining to Archer how the John Doe investigation works, what computers and phones they would be taking from the house and the process involved with copying and returning them............

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/audio-contradicts-scott-walker-aide-s-description-of-raid/article_64e5ec3a-3b65-57e8-bc2c-f9a0dc37e505.html#ixzz3hw1qpgmn

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Cindy Archer was lying though her teeth and the audio tape proves it!

[Turbineguy]

1. A Scott Walker Aide lying....

I ask you... what's the world coming to?

[Scarsdale]

2. Walker

Once the Koch brothers install little cross eyed Scotty into the WH, she will get all the charges dropped. Isn't it strange how these corrupt politicians ALWAYS find other corrupt people to support them? Not one honest person in sight in their "staff"

[rpannier]

3. This spin is my favorite

“I’m sort of doing you a courtesy by letting you get a coffee and smoke a cigarette just because I imagine being woken up at 6 in the morning by a bunch of people in black suits is not the way you want to wake up in the day,” Milwaukee County District Attorney investigator Aaron Weiss says to Archer.

“Thank you,” she says in response.

Archer’s attorney, David Rivkin, said in a statement that the recording “confirms Ms. Archer’s account of that traumatic morning in every relevant respect.”

“Given the trauma of the day, it is not surprising that a victim of these abuses may not remember every detail with perfect clarity,” Rivkin said.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Over they give that courtesy to everyone accused of a crime eh?

[turbinetree]

4. Walker and company.......................

you have bigger things to worry about now, and its called the FEDS.
And they will find out what happened and they will prosecute any and everyone that was involved with this political corruption.
The dubious corrupt court system in Wisconsin can try and hide what happened, but not with the FEDS.





Honk ------------ for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[dembotoz]

5. by the time they get to it walker could have served 2 terms

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. Two terms as president? ...

... or two terms in prison?

[postulater]

6. I like to think there will be Federal action.

But is there any evidence it is actually happening?

[hue]

12. I am also tired of waiting for federal indictments.

Several years ago I head a couple of reports that the feds were conducting their own investigation. Then this past year I've heard nothing further. Sometimes I think perhaps they were waiting for our state supreme court to rule on the JD investigation as now they can add the indictment of obstruction of justice to those who ruled against it. But in the end justice delayed is justice denied and I personally am becoming disillusioned with my hopes for federal interventions.

Perhaps the feds are waiting for Wisconsinites to see for themselves via the Repub debates & national main stream media who Walker really is. I'm sure there would be a huge outcry if Walker were finally indicted by the feds. Indeed some Wisconsinites still believe in the myth/political illusion of Walker. Its a mass madness created & fostered by media propaganda.

[postulater]

15. I fear it might be Fitzmas all over again. nt

[fredamae]

14. ^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^ n/t

[madamvlb]

7. Big K&R

[secondwind]

8. K&R for visibility

[cloudythescribbler]

9. call me cynical, but ...

after the Snowden revelations, no one ever nailed Clapper for lying under oath to Congress. Here, if they even bother, the Walker will distance himself from it, and the political fallout will be minimal. It is particularly true that challenges from a progressive/populist direction to corruption and lying of the worst kind seem to have little impact.

I think that the whole system is on a railroad track that can't go left, but only shifts in a rightward direction. At some point, the country might end up in a ditch that is so bad, people might look to other alternatives seriously, although even then a rightward shift seems built into the very fabric of power

At any rate, I guess lying was just the first layer of defense. Now that it has been pierced, there will be many more. Walker is safe

[old guy]

11. Walker=bulletproof.

'nuff said.

[Judi Lynn]

13. "Former Scott Walker Aide Sues prosecutors for WI John Doe “Home Invasion”"

Former Scott Walker Aide Sues prosecutors for WI John Doe “Home Invasion”
Posted by William A. Jacobson Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 9:15pm

Treated like a terrorist for being conservative and tied to Scott Walker



We previously covered Cynthia Archer, Wisconsin Dems used battering rams against Scott Walker supporters – literally

Archer was a woman whose home was raised by paramilitary-style commandos working at the behest of Milwaukee County Prosecutor John Chishom as part of “John Doe No. 2.”

Archer’s only alleged crime was being a former aide to Scott Walker, and being conservative. That flimsy pretense was enough enough to make her a target in the second (hence, John Doe No. 2) secret investigation of Walker, based on the allegation that there was illegal campaign coordination among conservative groups and the Walker campaign during the Recall election.

We have covered the legal proceedings extensively. The federal and state courts have rejected the prosecution’s theory in the face of lawsuits alleging, among other things, that the laws on campaign coordination and the investigations violated freedom of speech. The key case as to the investigation now is on appeal in the state court system, and the John Doe No. 2 investigation is on hold.

Our John Doe (WI) Tag traces the history of the cases.
But lost in this legal wrangling is the damage done to real people, such as Archer.

More:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/07/former-scott-walker-aide-sues-prosecutors-for-wi-john-doe-home-invasion/

[riversedge]

17. umm. Eric O'Keefe is involved

in Archer's lawsuit. He is one nasty dude.

[Judi Lynn]

18. Had to go look for a photo of Eric O'Keefe. Found one of him with James O'Keefe.

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Wikipedia for Eric:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Keefe_(political_activist)

You are kind to have mentioned this. Thank you.

[riversedge]

19. The Wiki page you

have listed goes to the wrong Eric O'Keefe I believe. The one connected to the OP is Leader of Wisconsin Club for Growth and connected with Walker and fundraising (right wing). {PS--I am not sure but the Wiki page you site sure does not seem like the same Eric that is listed in the lawsuit).



Google this and you get a picture of the O'Keefe mentioned in the OP
Eric O'Keefe and Wisconsin

[riversedge]

20. This Wiki page leads to Eric

cited in the OP.....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Keefe_%28political_activist%29

.......John Doe investigation

In October 2013, it was revealed that John Chisholm, the Democratic District Attorney of Milwaukee County, had launched a secret "John Doe investigation" into the activities of Wisconsin conservatives. Wisconsin is one of three states that allow John Doe investigations, in which prosecutors are allowed to compel people to produce documents and give testimony as well as bar them from talking publicly about the investigation. These types of investigations are called "John Doe probes" as their purpose is to determine whether a crime has been committed, and if so, by whom. Prosecutors are allowed to conduct their investigation in secret and can order targets and witnesses not to tell anyone about the matter. Francis Schmitz was appointed special prosecutor in the probe. The probe, launched in the summer of 2012, was investigating whether conservative groups in Wisconsin had engaged in illegal campaign coordination.[23][24][25]

In November 2013, O'Keefe courageously defied the gag order, and confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that he had received a subpoena in early October 2013 regarding the John Doe investigation. O'Keefe told the Wall Street Journal that at least three other targets of the investigation had their homes raided at dawn by law-enforcement officers who seized belongings, including computers and files.[26]

In February 2014, O'Keefe sued in federal court to stop the investigation on the grounds that it violated his free speech rights. In May 2014, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa halted the state's investigation. Chisholm and Schmitz asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend Randa's ruling. The 7th Circuit Court denied the request.[27] Dodge County, Wisconsin circuit judge Steven Bauer, a Democrat, ruled, on November 6, 2014, in an investigation into Chisholm's conduct, that Chisholm had acted "in good faith".[28]

O'Keefe's appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court is pending. On March 27, 2015, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled, 4–2 (after one justice recused herself) that it would not hear arguments, either in public or in secret, citing "citing the long tradition of open courts and the secrecy of the John Doe." Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson dissented and Justice David Prosser, although political polar opposites, both dissented. Abrahamson argued, among other points, that "The court's failure to provide further justification for its highly unusual decision to cancel oral argument is, in my view, alarming." Prosser argued that the court should hear oral arguments in secret, then release edited transcripts and video.[29]...........