The backstory of this is that recently through a freedom of information act request, thousand of emails to the WI govenor were released. Now news organizations are beginning to go through them.

WisconsinWatch.org picks up the story from there:



Indiana prosecutor denies encouraging Wisconsin violence

By Kate Golden

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican activist in Indiana. After praise for Walker, the email — sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill — then took a darker turn. It suggested that the situation in Wisconsin presented “a good opportunity for what’s called a ‘false flag’ operation.” “If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions’ cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions,” the email said. “Currently, the media is painting the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest. Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions. God bless, Carlos F. Lam.”



Lam denies that he wrote the email and claims that his account was hacked. Though as the stroy points out the IP address was from Indianapolis, where Lam lives, and the writing matches that that Lam has left on message boards.

Will anything come of a state prosecutor (allegedly) suggesting a govenor fake violence to discredit opponents? Apparently not. Lam's republican boss says in the article that he has no plans to investigate.

UPDATE-WisconsinWatch.org has updated their story saying that Lam has admited writing the email and has now resigned. Here is a statement from the Johnson County Prosecutor, who as I noted in the original story, said he would not investigate the claim. http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/...