Is there a lawyer in the house?

It didn't take Republican Party Director Rick Wiley long to go over the top with reaction to Tuesday's federal grand jury indictment of a state procurement official, Georgia Thompson. In the first hour, he was posturing and making impossible demands of the Doyle administration.

From Wiley's statement:

We call on Governor Doyle to release the names of employees of his Administration who have been interviewed by the grand jury. The public has a right to know."

Actually, here's what a website on federal grand juries, from the University of Dayton Law School, explains:

The identities of the grand jurors are secret, as are the identities of the witnesses who testify before them and any evidence they consider.

Rick Graber, Wiley's boss and GOP chairman, is a lawyer and, presumably knows that. If he doesn't, maybe he should catch up on his continuing legal education credits.

Scott Walker, meanwhile, refers to Thompson as one of Doyle's top aides. Funny no one, including me, had ever heard of her before this travel story broke. Here's how much I know about her position, from searching the web:

Division: Enterprise Operations
Bureau: Bureau of Procurement
Section: Enterprise Programs