Triad GSI and Triad Management ... Any connections ?

[EVDebs]

I've heard that Wayne Madsen is investigating "dominionist" groups who may have played a role in vote rigging in OH and possibly other states.

Commongroundcommonsense has a thread related to this at

http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/index.php?showtopic=12303&st=0&p=117727&#entry117727

and the main links are potentially through Triad GSI, the vote machine company out of Xenia OH, and Triad Management Services in Rockville MD.

This is verrrrrrry tantalizing if the linkages are there.

[libertypirate]

1. an EDGAR search

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1196267/000095013002006991/0000950130-02-006991-index.htm

There are a bunch of other companies associated with that filling.

TRI SHELL --> there is 51 companies

Same address similar name all

13455 NOEL ROAD SUITE 2000
DALLAS TX 75240

[kuozzman]

2. I did some investigating myself, here is some of what I found:

I'm not sure if these Triads are the one's you're talking about, but some of the stuff I found pretty ironic. Especially the acronym!!! Here's a copy of an old blog of mine:

Tactical Resources In American Democracy

Triad, or Tactical Resources in American Democracy was founded in 1995, Triad was a profit-making company that funnelled money into Congressional races through two tax-exempt groups associated with it, mainly Citizens for Reform and Citizens for the Republic Education Fund.

Neither of the two nonprofit groups associated with Triad was active before the 1996 election. One existed only on paper as of Oct. 11, 1996, when it opened a bank account.
In the next 20 days, from Oct. 11 to Oct. 31, the group, Citizens for Reform, received $1.6 million from Triad donors in 12 bank transactions. By Oct. 31, $1.4 million of this money had been spent on advertisements, documents show. A second Triad-affiliated nonprofit group received $1.7 million in late October for television attack advertisements.

Triad raised money from conservative donors and sent it to the nonprofit groups that bought so-called issue advertisements on television attacking Democrats and supporting Republican candidates and causes.

Mr. Braden said some Triad donors had been so concerned about secrecy that they insisted on having written agreements with Triad that their names would not be disclosed unless Triad was ordered to do so by the courts. Still, Mr. Braden said, the majority of Triad's donors had been primarily attracted by the conservative candidates that Triad supported and less by a promise of anonymity.

Washington Post article on TRIAD: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf103097.htm

Other article: http://www.sptimes.com/News/101899/Worldandnation/Tax_loophole_stirs_de.shtml

Others Linked To This Triad: Cooperative Computing Inc. merged with Triad, becoming Cooperative Computing Inc/Triad or CCI/Triad.

Edgington Oil Co. CCI/Triad sold it for roughly $175 Mil. To Stay In Business

Odyssey Online, LLC, by Cox, Keller & Rowland, 85 W. Main St., Xenia, 453852913; members: Tod A. Rapp
http://attorneypages.com/details.php/23504_9019_526_2099_100.htm

Could someone who knows about the technology associated with voting machines see if anything on these links is fishy:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/u2/tools/
http://www.aheartsease.com/html/links.php?/Computers/Software/Consultants/

These guys claim to have the most comprehensive product on the market today:
http://capitoladvantage.com/elections.html
I found this by clicking to register to vote in any state on another site, which took me here: https://ssl.capwiz.com/congressorg/e4/nvra/?action=form&state=
If you delete everything past the .com, it goes to the capitaladvantage site. Thought it was weird that the site you could supposedly register at was the ssl.capwiz and that if you include congress in the address, but delete anything after that, it goes to congress.org.

Copyright 1987 The Financial Times Limited
Financial Times (London,England)
February 4, 1987, Wednesday

Personal and business creditors are closing in on Mr Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer who claims to have lost millions of dollars from financing the secret sale of US weapons to Iran.

In the last month alone the man often (wrongly) described as the worlds richest has been brought down to earth with a bump. Two of his private airliners containing nearly Dollars 1 m worth of crystal and china were grounded in France following his default on Dollars 7.5 m of debts to Mr Roland ("Tiny") Rowland and to Mr Rowland's company, Lonrho
---SNIP---
If his private wealth is hidden, his business affairs are coming increasingly into the open because of the suits piling up against Triad America, based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

As the pressure mounts, former Khashoggi aides have been bewailing the failure of the North American businesses to realize Mr Khashoggi's dream - as he described it to Time magazine last month - "to take over an important American company and use it as a base of my operations."

In its filing under Chapter 11 of the US brankruptcy law, Triad has declared assets of Dollars 116.4 m and liabilities of Dollars 51 Million it had hoped to wipe the slate clean by selling its best asset, Edgington Oil, which has a refinery at Long Beach.




CITRUS TIMES
Words war expands to computer charge
GREG HAMILTON
499 words
30 August 1992
St. Petersburg Times
CITY
3
English
(Copyright 1992)
The war of words between Lisa Beville and the woman she hopes to unseat, Supervisor of Elections Wilma Anderson, has expanded to include the state Division of Elections and Triad GSI, the company that supplies the county's ballot-counting machinery.
In a series of letters to Anderson, Beville, who is challenging her former boss in Tuesday's Democratic primary, recently questioned the validity of the computer software, the security of the ballots and events surrounding the 1988 primary.
According to Beville, Triad workers adjusted the software to clear up a ballot-counting problem shortly before the election and the machinery should have been recertified following the work.
She said Friday that when she mentioned this to Anderson, she was told "to mind my own business, that I don't need to recite election law to the supervisor."
"I don't remember saying that," Anderson said Friday. "If I had, she probably would have told me to f--- off, as she did on other occasions. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I just don't remember it happening."
Anderson said that in 1988, the Triad workers were fixing problems with the machines caused by a lightning strike. Triad president Tod Rapp concurred in a letter to Anderson.
Beville disputes that the weather had anything to do with the repair work.
But even it if did, "My question is, why was it a secret? The party chairmen were not called in. The canvassing board was not notified. The Division of Elections was not notified.
"Why was I forbidden to mention it? If the party chairmen and division had been notified, it may not have been a big deal. But it should have been made public. Everyone has a right to know."
Beville said state law allows minor changes, such as correcting misspelled names on the ballot, to occur without the supervisor having to get the system recertified. But if the computer program is altered, which she claims is what occurred in 1988, the tabulation system must be recertified.
However, a memorandum from the Division of Elections seems to contradict that. It reads: "Modification of the election system software would require recertification; however, modification of parameters is not the same as a modification of the election system. . . . Modification and creation of election parameters is a normal operation which must occur for each election on all systems."
Beville also reiterated her concerns about ballot security. The ballots, she said, are left out where anyone has access to them. "We've been fortunate, no one has taken any ballots. But the opportunity has been there. The lack of security is evident."
Anderson has stated that the ballots are secure.
Beville noted that she addressed her letters to Anderson, not the newspapers. "I'm not out to sling mud at her," she said, adding it was Anderson who made the letters an issue by calling them "harassment" at a recent candidates forum.
Document stpt000020011108do8u0151u
Psephology: Etymology: Greek psEphos pebble, ballot, vote; from the use of pebbles by the ancient Greeks in voting Date: 1952: the scientific study of elections

Even in the electronic age, a vote is called psephos, Greek for pebble, explained Greek Ambassador Alexandre Philon at a table full of ambassadors. But the ways and means of democracy have moved on, and foreign diplomats stationed here were on the watch for early results--and intrigued about the American system and its outcome.

Psephology: the study of voting patterns comes from the Greek word psephos, meaning pebble. In their ancient democracy, Athenians voted by casting pebbles into an urn.

Psephos is the name of a company owned by the guy who owns Triad GSI.

[kuozzman]

3. More.....

October 29, 1997; Wednesday 05:11 Eastern Time

SECTION: Domestic, non-Washington, general news item

HEADLINE: GOP Aided by Wealthy Conservatives

BYLINE: JIM DRINKARD

BODY:
A wealthy Pennsylvania businessman who gave $1.8 million was among dozens of donors listed in bank records as supporters of conservative nonprofit groups that aired TV ads to help Republican congressional candidates.

The documents show that Robert L. Cone, former chairman of Graco Children's Products and now a management consultant, gave $600,000 in start-up money to Triad Management, a political consulting firm that matches wealthy donors with conservative campaigns, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Triad is headed by Carolyn Malenick, a former fund-raiser for one-time Virginia GOP Senate candidate Oliver North.

Cone also donated $1.2 million to two nonprofit groups associated with Triad: Citizens for the Republic Education Fund and Citizens for Reform. Both spent heavily last year on often hard-hitting television spots attacking Democratic candidates.

Such groups can receive unlimited amounts of contributions and do not have to disclose the names of donors.

The records were turned over to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which is investigating allegations of improper fund raising in the 1996 elections.

Reached at home in Elverson, Pa., Cone declined to be interviewed. ''I'm not confirming or denying anything at the moment,'' he said.

The panel's investigators also believe the family that owns Koch Industries, a Kansas-based oil company, gave heavily to the nonprofit network through a foundation that appears in the bank records. Neither a spokesman nor a Washington lobbyist for the company returned telephone calls Tuesday.

Most of the committee's work, including its televised hearings, has focused on fund-raising abuses by President Clinton's re-election campaign and by the Democratic Party. But minority Democrats on the panel have sought to show that abuses were bipartisan.

The Democrats are pushing to devote hearing time to Republicans' use of nonprofit groups to run millions of dollars worth of issue ads, using donated money that is unregulated, unlimited and unreportable under the laws that govern political contributions. The use of nonprofit conduits allows wealthy individuals to affect elections while concealing their identity, the Democrats contend.

The bank records received by the Senate panel came from Crestar Bank in Richmond in response to a subpoena from the committee. In an apparent mistake, the records included names of donors, even though the panel had previously agreed to allow the names to be deleted before the records were turned over.

Crestar had invited lawyers for Triad to sanitize the records, but they failed to do so, and after six weeks of waiting the bank turned over the records complete with names.

Republicans on the panel are asking that the records be returned and that the names not be made public. Democrats have refused so far to return them.

[seemslikeadream]

4. Khashoggi

Bush the Elder’s Scheme to Sell Pardons and Get a Payoff –
Where is the Outrage Over a 10 Billion Dollar Taxpayer Ripoff?

February 26, 2001

By Jock Gill for Democrats.com

Bill Clinton wasn’t being either bold or creative in his use of the presidential pardon power. Compared to George Bush Senior’s incredible pardon fiasco, Clinton’s pardon scandal is boring.

In his last days as President, Bush Sr. sold U.S. government asset worth $10 billion to a friend for a mere $10 thousand dollars, pardoned his business colleagues, and then went on the company’s payroll for seven years.

At the very end of his presidency Papa Bush gave a sweetheart deal to the Canadian company Barrick Goldstrike. They got the rights to US land worth $10 billion in return for a nominal payment to the treasury of $10,000. But that does not seem to be all they got, or all they paid for either.

The money behind Barrick is from Saudi arms dealer and Bush family friend Adnan Khashoggi, who was identified as conduit in the Iran-Contra conspiracy. In 1986 he was arrested and charged with fraud but failed to be convicted. In one of his last acts as president Bush pardoned Khashoggi's alleged co-conspirators, who were key members of Bush's own cabinet. As a result, no case could be made against Khashoggi – or against Bush himself.
more
http://www.penfield-gill.com/presentations/bush_the_elder.htm


Poppy Strikes Gold

Some of the loot for the Republican effort in the 1997-2000 election cycles came from an outfit called Barrick Corporation. The sum, while over $100,000, is comparatively small change for the GOP, yet it seemed quite a gesture for a corporation based in Canada. Technically, the funds came from those associated with the Canadian’s U.S. unit, Barrick Gold Strike.

They could well afford it. In the final days of the Bush (Senior) administration, the Interior Department made an extraordinary but little noticed change in procedures under the 1872 Mining Law, the gold rush-era act that permitted those whiskered small-time prospectors with their tin pans and mules to stake claims on their tiny plots. The department initiated an expedited procedure for mining companies that allowed Barrick to swiftly lay claim to the largest gold find in America. In the terminology of the law, Barrick could “perfect its patent” on the estimated $10 billion in ore—for which Barrick paid the U.S. Treasury a little under $ 10,000. Eureka!

Barrick, of course, had to put up cash for the initial property rights and the cost of digging out the booty (and the cost of donations, in smaller amounts, to support Nevada’s Democratic senator, Harry Reid). Still, the shift in rules paid off big time: According to experts at the Mineral Policy Center of Washington, DC, Barrick saved—and the U.S. taxpayer lost—a cool billion or so.

Upon taking office, Bill Clinton’s new interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, called Barrick’s claim the “biggest gold heist since the days of Butch Cassidy.” Nevertheless, because the company followed the fast-track process laid out for them under Bush, this corporate Goldfinger had Babbitt by the legal nuggets. Clinton had no choice but to give them the gold mine while the public got the shaft.

Barrick says it had no contact whatsoever with the president at the time of the rules change.<1> There was always a place in Barrick’s heart for the older Bush—and a place on its payroll. In 1995, Barrick hired the former president as Honorary Senior Advisor to the Toronto company’s International Advisory Board. Bush joined at the suggestion of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who, like Bush, had been ignominiously booted from office. I was a bit surprised that the president had signed on. When Bush was voted out of the White House, he vowed never to lobby or join a corporate board. The chairman of Barrick openly boasts that granting the title “Senior Advisor” was a sly maneuver to help Bush tiptoe around this promise.

I was curious: What does one do with a used president? Barrick vehemently denies that it appointed Bush “in order to procure him to make contact with other world leaders whom he knows, or who could be of considerable assistance” to the company. Yet, in September 1996, Bush wrote a letter to help convince Indonesian dictator Suharto to give Barrick a new, hot gold-mining concession.
more
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=207&row=4

Another big player in the eastern Congo is Barrick Gold Corp., headquatered in Canada. It is the world's second-largest gold producer after Anglo-American of South Africa.

This company was able in 1996 to get the Mobutu regime's Gold Office of Kilomoto, a government monopoly, to transfer mining rights over almost all its 82,000 square kilometers of land to Barrick. The land is estimated to have 100 tons of gold in reserve.

George Bush Sr. sat on the board of directors of Barrick, according to Baracyetse.
www.minesandcommunities.org/Company/kabilal.htm

[EVDebs]

9. You need to get this to Wayne Madsen ASAP

Someone posted he's doing research on 'dominionists' who may have been religious wackos crazy enough to try to mess up an election.

[Carolab]

5. Koch Industries--McGuireWoods--Mercatus Center--Triad Management

Koch Industries

Koch is another major client of Frank Donatelli's firm. You won't believe what's in this article. (P.S. Isn't Doro married to a Koch?") Read the whole article!

http://www.publicintegrity.org/oil/report.aspx?aid=347

Senate Investigation on Issue Ads
The recent Oregon case isn't the first time that Koch-backed organization has been accused of playing fast and loose with campaign finance laws.

In 1997, the Kochs were investigated by the Democratic staff on the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs for their alleged funding of so-called "issue ads" during elections the previous year.

The investigation involved a for-profit corporation called Triad Management Inc., which was owned by Carolyn Malenick, a Republican fundraiser.

In 1996, according to The Buying of the President 2000, Triad was responsible for pro-Republican advertising in 26 House races and three Senate races. Triad was connected to two not-for-profit organizations, Citizens for Reform and Citizens for the Republic Education Fund. Neither group had a staff or office, but they ran $3 million in television ads paid for by Triad-related entities in the closing days of the 1996 campaign.

More than half of the Triad-connected money—$1.79 million – came from a group called the Economic Education Trust, which the Democratic Staff of the Senate committee suggested had been funded by Charles and David Koch.

The Senate investigators found that much of the money spent by Triad and another group called the Coalition for Our Children's Future helped Republican candidates in states where Koch has refineries, pipelines, or offices, including Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota and Oklahoma.

While the Senate committee did not officially charge Koch with campaign law violations, the investigation did uncover a $2,000 Koch Industries corporate check made out to Triad.

In 1998, the Wall Street Journal reported that it had discovered documents the paper said confirmed a direct link between Charles Koch and the ads.

Specifically, the Journal report said Republican political consultant Kenneth Barfield, who was on Koch's payroll in 1996, relayed information between Triad and the Economic Education Trust, which ultimately financed the ads.


Mercatus:

The Mercatus Center is one of the best-funded think tanks in the United States at the moment. Part of George Mason University. Listed as "sister organization" to the Instutite of Humane Studies. "Mercatus generates knowledge and understanding of how institutions affect the freedom to prosper and holds organizations accountable for their impact on that freedom." <1> (http://www.mercatus.org/category.php/1.html)

The Mercatus Center has engaged in campaigns involving deregulation, especially environmental deregulation.

Table of contents
1 History

2 Regulatory Studies Program

3 Executive Staff

4 Backlinks

5 Contact Information

6 External Links

History
The Mercatus Center was founded as the Center for Market Processes by Rich Fink, executive vice president of Koch Industries and former president of the Koch Foundations, who went on to found Citizens for a Sound Economy. In the early 1980s the center moved to George Mason University. It merged with the Center for the Study of Public Choice during 1998 to become the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. The Mercatus Center brand was developed in 1999 from the JBC.

Regulatory Studies Program
Personnel

Wendy Lee Gramm, Chair
Susan E. Dudley, Director
Brian Mannix, Senior Research Fellow
Jay Cochran III, Research Fellow
Jerry Ellig
Board of Advisors

C. Boyden Gray, Former White House Counsel and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Sidney E. Harris, Dean, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Christopher Hill, Vice Provost for Research, George Mason University
Thomas Hopkins, Dean of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology
Steven Manaster, Dean, College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado
Susan Phillips, Former Governor of the Federal Reserves Board; Dean, School of Business and Public Management, The George Washington University
Vernon L. Smith, Professor of Economics and Law, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University
W. Kip Viscusi, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law & Economics, Harvard Law School
Executive Staff
Frank Atkinson, Chairman, McGuireWoods Consulting, LLC
Tyler Cowen, General Director, Mercatus Center <2> (http://www.gmu.edu/alumni/spirit/99spring/cowen.html)
Richard Fink, Executive Vice President, Koch Industries <3> (http://bov.gmu.edu/fink.html)
Manuel Johnson, Co-Chairman, Johnson Smick Group
Charles Koch, Chairman and CEO, Koch Industries, Inc.
Dwight Schar, Chairman and CEO, NVR, Inc.
Roger Silk, CEO, Sterling Foundation Management
Vernon L. Smith, Professor of Economics and Law
Backlinks
Wendy Gramm
Timothy J. Roemer
Phil Gramm
GOP,Inc.
George Mason University
Jennifer Zambone
Vernon L. Smith
Contact Information
Mercatus Center
George Mason University
3301 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 450
Arlington, VA 22201-4433
tel: [phone]
1-800-815-5711
Fax: [phone]
web site: www.mercatus.org

External Links
"George Mason University (http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?recipientID=413)", Media Transparency (includes donations for the 'Mercatus Center')
Bob Davis, "Rule Breaker: In Washington, tiny think tank wields big stick on regulation (http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108994396555065646,00.html?mod=todays_us_page_one)", Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2004.
Retrieved from "http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mercatus_Center"

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mercatus_Center

Triad Management (a link I found and put in the other thread on New Media):

Carolyn Malenick - CNP 1996, 1998; president, Triad Management Services; former consultant, VPAC; director of development, Freedom Alliance,5 whose contributors include CNP's Oliver North; head of National Capital Strategies; former assistant to North Defense Trust: former consultant for Oliver North; former administrative assistant to the president of The Viguerie Company, CNP's Richard Viguerie; former account assistant, The Viguerie Company; former audio service coordinator, Old­Time Gospel Hour, Lynchburg, Va.; former volunteer, Kemp for President campaign; 1980 Reagan/Bush campaign work; 1980­1981, direct mailings for Moral Majority, Inc.

Malenick has close personal ties to both the Scaife and Koch families; 1996, Malenick worked for a number of Republican campaigns, including the campaign of Representative Bob Schafer (R-CO), who has taken the lead on “paycheck protection” legislation in the U.S. House. CNP's Senator Don Nickles (R-OK) is a close friend of Malenick's and made a promotional video for Triad Management that created controversy over the propriety of such an endorsement of their services by a U.S. senator. Nickels sponsored “paycheck protection” legislation in the U.S. Senate last year. 6

"...Democratic investigators also looked into a third organization called Triad Management Services Inc., a for-profit group run by Carolyn Malenick, a former fundraiser for Oliver L. North, the former Marine colonel who was a central figure in the Iran-Contra investigation and a 1994 Senate candidate in Virginia. Triad offered donors a choice of giving to individual candidates, a slew of conservative political action committees or two tax-exempt groups named the Citizens for the Republic Education Fund and Citizens for Reform."

"Democratic investigators found that Triad funneled money into the tax-exempt groups for the "sole purpose of running attack ads against Democratic candidates under the guise of 'issue advocacy.'" Triad "conspired with donors who had reached their maximum contribution limit to evade the law by laundering additional contributions through designated political action committees and then earmarking those contributions for certain campaigns," the minority draft says."

"While Congress' campaign finance investigation may not yield legislation, issues raised by the probe have begun to produce serious consequences for some of the major players..." 7

"... Triad was funded by a handful of wealthy Republican donors who used it as a mechanism to support the election of conservative Republican candidates to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Triad channeled millions of dollars from its backers to two tax-exempt groups it had established for the sole purpose of running attack ads against Democratic candidates under the guise of ``issue advocacy.'' By operating this way, Triad and its financial backers avoided the disclosure and campaign contribution limits of the federal election laws. Triad itself made possibly illegal contributions by providing free consulting advice and other assistance to candidates. Moreover, the evidence suggests that Triad conspired with contributors who had reached their maximum contribution limit to evade the law by laundering additional contributions through designated political action committees (``PACs'') and then earmarking these contributions..." 8

http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.m.htm

[EVDebs]

6. Koch is common German name; Doro married to Bobbie Koch

I think was a Democrat but now is a wine lobbyist. Don't know if he changed party registration. Main train of thought here is with Triad Management Services and Triad GSI possible links and Wayne Madsen's new research suggesting "religious" connections to voterigging/fraud.

[Carolab]

7. I know the purpose...

but the background on Triad MS ties back to the New Media-Government Solutions-Donatelli threads and ALL the heavy RW players.

[zimba]

8. I researched Triad GSI and Triad MSI sometime ago but

could never find any linkage. Not that it isnt possible of course. I just couldnt find it. Would be nice to know.