This is 100% ginned up.
All smoke and mirrors. All witch hunt type persecution, but worse
It is the sort of thing sophisticated dictatorships do to their opposition under seemingly legal means.
It rule by law, not rule of law.
It is premised on the opposition organizing together being illegal.
The secrecy is part and parcel of the dictatorship modus operandi
This is dark.
I take some comfort in the belief that, should Republicans ever get the stones to fight back in a similar manner, the troves of documents generated by Democrat politicians and their supporters (unions, environmental loons, green businesses looking for subsidies) will contain far more clear evidence of lawbreaking than they would ever find in Walker’s emails, etc.
One way we will know that the GOP is finally willing to take the fight to the level that Democrats always operate at is whether or not they decide to jettison the filibuster rule entirely if they re-take the U.S. Senate. The Dems fired the first (foolish) shot by dropping it for approving some Presidential appointments. The GOP needs to take it to the logical conclusion, drop it completely, and start sending up legislation that will fix the mess we’re in.
A good start would be defunding most of the agencies causing the trouble, including the EPA, the IRS, NSA, the NLRB, etc. They should take a cue from Walker, who has defunded the Secretary of State’s position to the point where LaFollette, a lifelong Democrat who keeps winning re-election, has nothing left to do, and no money to do anything he might want to try.
Tommy Thompson did the same thing to the Wisconsin Dept of Public Instruction when he was in office, cutting their budget to the point that all they could afford to do was the tasks assigned to them by law, with no money left over for messing with the schools. The IRS, for example, should be cut to bare bones, just enough to collect taxes and issue refunds. Then simplify the tax law and cut them even further until one person with a good computer can administer national taxes. Impossible, I know, but it’s always good to have a goal in mind.