Friday, February 28, 2014

State Journal Breaks New Walker Secret Email Story

His office's secret system dates back eight years earlier than previously known, to 2002, for which Walker thanked the installer, but about which investigators were not told.

Wow:

Gov. Scott Walker's Milwaukee County executive office was using a secret Internet system as early as the year he took office, according to a former county administrator who said he helped set up the network.

That's several years earlier than prosecutors disclosed in a complaint against one of Walker's former aides who was convicted of using a secret system to campaign on the taxpayers' dime.



15 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, we are supposed to believe a guy who is a Democratic Party activist? Give me a break

Mort Guffman said...

Why is this guy just coming forward now?

Anonymous said...

James,

Did you read the article? This was supposedly a hardwired DSL network not meant to avoid public scrunity. I think you have your tin foil hat on again.

Anonymous said...

@ 3:18 and 3:23: And not to forget BENGHAZI!!!

Gareth said...

Kiefert posted this story himself on February 19th. I'm not sure why it took more than a week for the story to hit a newspaper. Maybe it's just a personnel shortage.

http://www.newiprogressive.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=blogger&layout=listings&id=81&Itemid=63

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James Rowen said...

@Anon 3:40p.m. Yes. I read it. Did you? DSL - - so what? Look at the story's lead:

"Gov. Scott Walker's Milwaukee County executive office was using a secret Internet system as early as the year he took office, according to a former county administrator who said he helped set up the network."



Say What? said...

It's a bizzaro article - what ya mean a hard wired DSL link. What the hell is that. Their office was already hard wired for a direct Ethernet connection.

Anonymous said...

It seems only the Walker administration had this type of network. What is he hiding?

Marquette Law School professor and former Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske, who served as interim county executive for three months before Walker took office, said her staff had access to the Internet and email through the county's network. She said she doesn't understand why there would have been a need for a separate network.

"It seems obvious to me that when you have communications among staff members that they’re open records," Geske said. "What’s the point of doing a secondary email except to keep them from being open records?"

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

why does affiliation with the Democratic party invalidate everything someone does?

If that is so, wouldn't that also invalidate everything done by people on the right?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

what ya mean a hard wired DSL link.

It's FUD. DSL is hardwired to the wall outlet. From there, connect it to a wifi router and set the connections as private, and you have a private wireless network.

It's a tactic to use jargon in order to confuse and make people back down. Like how every discussion of gun control devolves into gun nuts telling everyone else that their opinions are meaningless if they can't identify gun parts to the satisfaction of the gun fetishists.

Boxer said...

"So, we are supposed to believe a guy who is a Democratic Party activist? Give me a break"

How about believing the evidence, moron? The evidence being the e-mails that weren't on the office network.

CJ said...

What is Walker hiding? James' I'm sharing here because you have many readers folllow your blog.

Off topic, but John Doe 2 isn't really about Walker. It's about protecting the deep web of dirty money.
The big fish are going balls to the wall to shut this thing down. I felt nauseous reading this. http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2014/02/27/murphys-law-walkers-sweet-revenge-against-john-doe-prosecutors/

Anonymous said...

Evidence? That is something that your moronic lefties, with your tin foiled hats never seem to want to have. If there was evidence, Boxer, Scott Walker would have been charged.

nonquixote said...

To Anon @ 11:13 am

Since John doe has concluded, ask Scooter to release the transcripts of his, 'cooperating with the investigation,' John Doe testimony.

Offering testimony against his subordinates in exchange for immunity from prosecution might just explain a lot about why Walker has not been charged to date. Just a simple thought to throw out there.