Rove -ing emails: what else could go missing?

[Up2Late]

(I found this over at ePluribus Media .org! Looks big, but it rather complex and I feel like someone who just walked into the middle of an insider conversation, so maybe some of you here who have been following this more closely than I have can figure some of this out and explain it to the rest of us.

NOTE: the post over at epluribusmedia.org has lot of embedded links in it, some of which I don't think should be linked to DU, so I didn't add them here. Click the link to epluribusmedia.org to use those link there.)

Here's the link: <http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/4/22/33926/1773>

Rove -ing emails: what else could go missing?

by Todd Johnston
Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 03:39:26 AM EST
Contributed by Todd Johnston and Luaptifer

As reported here, the Bush family's personal Internet strategist installed proprietary database, email, and web servers on the U.S. House of Representatives IT networks, less than three months after President George W. Bush took office in 2001.

Six years later, Michael L. Connell and his twin companies -- New Media Communications and Govtech Solutions -- have replicated that early success and spread throughout the federal government like one of New Media's award-winning viral marketing campaigns.

With one hand Connell fights to keep his party in power: exotic technologies that sync talking points for the RNC, Republican Governors Association, and 30 state GOP parties with his 'news' for hire clients like TCS Daily and Frontpage Mag.

And yet with the other, Mike Connell designs and maintains databases that run computer software at the White House, the Departments of Justice, Energy and State, and the most hermetic committees on Capitol Hill like Intelligence and the Judiciary....

(more at link) <http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/4/22/33926/1773>

[Fresh_Start]

1. has Ralston appeared yet, or is she still missing?

eom

[Up2Late]

3. Sorry, I don't know that reference either. Like I said, I'm interested in this topic...

...but I'm not really "up to speed" on all of it, at least not as much as some here are.

[Fresh_Start]

4. Ralstons one of the authors of some of the US attorney topic

emails. She's in the White House.

[Up2Late]

7. kick n/t

:kick:

[Pokey Anderson]

6. Ralston has worked for Abramoff, Rove and George W.

Talk about yer trifecta!

It's unclear, however, what she could or would offer in this context, of the IT system used by the RNC and the Ohio Secretary of State for live election results.

One friend has suggested:

The Congressional committees, all of them, should just start subpoenaing officials and evidence on ALL these lines of investigation directly from the source that has got to have lots of the "missing files/e-mails" -- the Natl. Security Agency.

All the aspens change color at the same time, they're connected at the roots.

[Up2Late]

2. Here's a little "background info" from The Center for Public Integrity

<http://www.publicintegrity.org/consultants/default.aspx?act=profiles&pid=10>

New Media Communications

www.technomania.com

Major Clients in 2003-2004
George W. Bush (R)
Republican National Committee

By Chris Landers

WASHINGTON, October 30, 2006 — Since starting New Media Communications in his Ohio basement in January 1995, Mike Connell has built his firm into one of the leading Web designers for conservative causes and Republican politicians. That GOP business also has led to significant government accounts for GovTech Solutions, a separate online services company owned by his wife Heather.

The road to New Media's success hasn't always been smooth. But after enduring a slow start and some lean years, business has taken off. Now during the busy campaign season, Connell can fly to visit clients in Washington and around the Midwest on the six seat Piper airplane he owns.

The Internet has taken Connell on a wild ride.

In 1995, the online frontier was largely unconquered by the political set. In March of the previous year, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, U.S. Rep. Martin Hoke trumpeted his status as the first Ohio congressman with an e-mail address, which he said offered "a new way for the 10th District computer techies to take a ride on the information highway right into their congressional office in Washington." If reporters called Hoke's office then, they could have connected with his 30-year-old press secretary, Mike Connell.

Connell was an early promoter of political technology. He had made a name for himself in Republican circles by designing software for the George H. W. Bush campaign in 1988. At the end of 1994, he left Hoke's office and moved to Ohio to start New Media, with start-up funds from a Small Business Administration loan.

(more at link) <http://www.publicintegrity.org/consultants/default.aspx?act=profiles&pid=10>

[Up2Late]

5. Here's another "something interesting." Some Mis-directed georgewbush.com e-mail that they got...

...by mistake at the Satire site georgewbush.org!

NOTE: Even though the e-mails are from a Satire site, These ARE REAL, but mis-addressed e-mail messages that they got and posted on the web for all to see. Some of them are quite damaging!

<http://2004.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp>

[Up2Late]

8. kick n/t

:kick: