An important corrective to some of the hysteria about the John Doe Wisconsin case:

Two career prosecutors–one a Republican, one a Democrat–just called Scott Walker a liar, and not a single national newspaper took notice.

The comments came after Walker, an unannounced candidate for president, used an appearance on an Iowa radio show to publicly attack a bipartisan criminal investigation into his campaign as a “political witch hunt” with the aim of “trying to intimidate people.”

The Special Prosecutor leading the probe, Francis Schmitz–a Republican who voted for Walker in 2012–fired back, stating, “these recent allegations are patently false.”

“His description of the investigation as a ‘political witch hunt’ is offensive when he knows that the investigation was authorized by a bipartisan group of judges and is directed by a Republican Special Prosecutor appointed at the request of a bipartisan group of district attorneys,” Schmitz said.

Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat whose office initiated the probe, added that, “Stripped of niceties, Mr. Schmitz is saying the governor is deliberately not telling the truth.”

Then, the prosecutors threw down the gauntlet.

Schmitz called upon the Governor “to join me in seeking judicial approval” to release sealed documents “which would be responsive to the allegations that have been made.” Chisholm agreed: “the truth is always a defense, so let’s get the truth out in a legal manner, not through lies, distortions and misrepresentations.”