One detail from "Wisconsin's Shame": that tipped-off reporter.

David French's National Review article � "Wisconsin�s Shame: 'I Thought It Was a Home Invasion'" � has attracted a lot of attention, but M.D. Kittle of Wisconsin Watchdog focuses on one detail. Cindy Archer "looked outside and saw a person who appeared to be a reporter. Someone had tipped him off." Kittle writes:

But Archer�s suspicion that a reporter was present was apparently right � and indicates that secrecy is a tactic rather than a principle: a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article published on the day of the raid, Sept. 14, 2011, indicates that a Journal Sentinel reporter arrived in time to see �about a dozen law enforcement officers, including FBI agents� raid Archer�s home....

�Around 9 a.m., a reporter saw four FBI agents � two of them wearing latex gloves � talking in Archer�s backyard before going into her house. Later, one removed a large box and put it in the trunk of an FBI car. They left about 10 a.m,� the Journal Sentinel story reported....

The secrecy of the John Doe investigation is supposed to protect those who may have done nothing illegal, and Archer has never been charged, yet her name was in the newspaper the day of the raid and she was forbidden to talk about it. As French put it in his article:
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