Robert Gates' Involvment In The "VOTE COUNT GAME"

[kpete]

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfield will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates.

Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/45174.html


Meanwhile, SAIC is referred to a "shadowy defense contractor". They have gotten into the vote count game both directly and through spinoffs by its top brass, including Admiral Bill Owens, former military aide to Dick Cheney, and Carlyle Group honcho Frank Carlucci and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates. SAIC’s history of fraud charges and security "lapses" haven’t prevented it from becoming one of the largest Pentagon and CIA contractors, and will doubtless encounter few obstacles in its entrance into the vote counting business.http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI411B.html


Following the Rubin/ Hopkins study, the Governor and Maryland General Assembly decided to order multiple independent assessments to probe further into the damning results. They contracted SAIC (Scientific Applications International Corporation) to test the AccuVote-TS touch screens’ software and the tabulating systems that count and print the final tally. Remember that GEMS tabulates the Accuvote Touch Screen DRE’s.

As a government contractor, SAIC’s main customer is the Federal Government of the United States. They contract with the Department of Energy, the Department of Treasury, but mostly the Department of Defense. They are involved in joint ventures with Bechtel, Northrop Grumman, and Rolls Royce. SAIC reported its most recent revenues at $7.2 Billion, but confesses they are aiming to reach the $12 Billion mark.

Their former President & COO is Admiral Bill Owens, who served as Senior Military aid to Dick Cheney and to Former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, most recently at Carlyle Group with George H. W. Bush. Retired Army General Wayne Downing, who was recently Chief counter terrorism expert at NSC, sat on the Board. Master of Intelligence acronyms, Bobby Ray Inman - former CIA Director, NSA, and DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) - was on board. And, as if that weren’t enough inside influence, Robert Gates, former CIA Director, veteran of Iran-Contra scandal, and Bush family friend, also served on the Board of SAIC.

Robert Gates was with the CIA for 27 years. Since 1999, he maintains a position on the board of TRW’s Cogent voting machine company, as well as holding the post as Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A & M University. Incidentally, both Gates and Admiral Owens moved from SAIC to VoteHere (see "Companies", "VoteHere" chapter), where Gates sat on the Board, and Owens was the Chairman, before his recent departure to Daimler-Chrysler.

http://www.whoscounting.net/TheCompanies.htm

[datadiva]

1. Thank you kpete for posting this

This is really important. I tried to recommend it but my computer is behaving strangely.

[Land Shark]

3. pure coincidence that so many cia people find themselves in elections

work like this, isn't it?

[BeFree]

6. CIA

I'm sure they just wanted to get inside to find out who was who. Pure coincidnce that the machines are vote stealing little bastards.

And hey, what about that durn Bev? If she ain't careful we'll all be back to voting the old fashioned way - Paper and Pen. Can't anybody stop her?

[rumpel]

2. thanks kpete, this entire group of people

and players of Iran Contra - only pardoned or manipulated by Bush 1 from being convicted and still in power positions is the awe. Why the counrty fell for their deceptions, and why the dems let them be is still beyond me.

It is so obvious, same modus operandi, same strategy -

This time, the people have to put their foot down.

[nicknameless]

4. .

K&R

[kster]

5. K N R..nt

[Bjorn Against]

7. The Democrats need to vote against this guy

They are in control now and they can not allow this criminal to slip in. I am hoping for some fun confirmation hearings and then a strong no vote.

[madmax]

8. Spooks and voting machines

Shiiiiiiiiiiiit. :scared:

[texpatriot2004]

9. Gates and the Hack America's Vote Act nm

[kster]

10. kick.nt