Established Fact
Personnel in the Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), who were formally authorized by the Wisconsin Legislature to investigate the 2020 election, were systematically targeted via ethics complaints, private investigators hired to probe their personal lives, coordinated media attacks, and reputational-destruction campaigns. These tactics were designed to delegitimize the investigation, exhaust investigative resources, and deter cooperation by witnesses and staff.
Citations
Gableman Report, pp. 43–44 (OSC staff subjected to ethics complaints, voluminous open records requests, private investigator surveillance, media attacks)
Gableman Report, p. 11 and App. I Wisconsin AG filed suit in Dane County Circuit Court seeking declaration OSC lacked authority
AG intervened on behalf of subpoena resisters.