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"EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Tragic Story of Mike Connell, Bush/Rove/GOP IT Guru, Breaks in Maxim"

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... Soul Rebel said on 1/18/2010 @ 8:02 am PT...





Now only if I could convince my wife that I'm buying Maxim for the articles...

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... Nicholas Chardonett said on 1/18/2010 @ 9:12 am PT...





1) Even without the Ohio votes, Bush won the popular vote in the election with over 3.5 million more votes than Kerry. Therefore, according to the logic of the left(who used this argument during the Bush vs. Gore debacle) Bush was president. Whoever gets the most votes wins, electoral college notwithstanding! Or is that only true when the popular vote winner is a Democrat? 2) No one was waiting with baited breath on election night for results from Ohio. It was clear from early evening after the polls closed that Bush won the state handily. The only people "waiting" were the Kerry camp, who didn't want to concede. When they saw there was no way they could win Ohio(100,000 votes isn't 487), they finally conceded. Less votes seperate Kerry's victory in Pennsylvania than Bush's in Ohio. But lets not go there! 3)Funny how no one contested the small margins that Obama won certain states with. Gee, now that a Democrat wins, there can't be any voter manipulation(Acorn notwithstanding). The will of the people prevails! Until Obama loses in 2012, and then suddenly Karl Rove, Diebold and the evil Republicans will be back in business again. After all, can't let a Republican win an election without calling it a fraud. That would demonstrate too much good will and lack of being a sore loser, and that just isn't characteristic of the modern Democrat party.

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... TomR said on 1/18/2010 @ 9:20 am PT...





Worrall reports that a "deep throat" document anonymously sent to Connell's family and a number of FBI agents last year, purporting to be an "after action report" by a black ops agent tasked with sabotaging Connell's plane... Brad, have you and/or Worrall personally seen this report? - Tom

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 1/18/2010 @ 9:51 am PT...





TomR @ 3 asked: Brad, have you and/or Worrall personally seen this report? Yes.

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... Shortbus said on 1/18/2010 @ 10:07 am PT...





@Nicholas Chardonett

The exit polls showed John Kerry winning with 50.8% of the votes and showed George W Bush with 48.2% so how could anybody "in the early evening" think Bush won Nicholas? A review of the available data reveals that in Ohio alone, at least 357,000 voters, the overwhelming majority of them Democratic, were prevented from casting ballots or did not have their votes counted in 200412 — more than enough to shift the results of an election decided by 118,601 votes.

In what may be the single most astounding fact from the election, one in every four Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 showed up at the polls only to discover that they were not listed on the rolls, thanks to GOP efforts to stem the unprecedented flood of Democrats eager to cast ballots14. And that doesn't even take into account the troubling evidence of outright fraud, which indicates that upwards of 80,000 votes for Kerry were counted instead for Bush. That alone is a swing of more than 160,000 votes — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House15.

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 1/18/2010 @ 10:08 am PT...





Nicholas Chardonnett @ 2 foolishly wrote: 1) Even without the Ohio votes, Bush won the popular vote in the election with over 3.5 million more votes than Kerry. Therefore, according to the logic of the left(who used this argument during the Bush vs. Gore debacle) Bush was president. Whoever gets the most votes wins, electoral college notwithstanding! Or is that only true when the popular vote winner is a Democrat? I can't speak for either "the left" or for Democrats, and I don't recall any serious person suggesting that Gore "won" because he received the most votes nationally. I do, however, recall that the votes in FL were never allowed to be counted before the race was given to Bush by the Supreme Court (who stopped the legally mandated full state hand count) and that the news and academic consortium that did count the ballots afterwards found that Gore received more votes in the state of Florida than Bush, no matter what counting standard (hanging chads, dimpled, etc.) one used. The results of that study, since you seem unaware of it, are posted at the conservative AEI website right here:

https://web.archive.org/...0040526_KeatingPaper.pdf 2) No one was waiting with baited breath on election night for results from Ohio. It was clear from early evening after the polls closed that Bush won the state handily. Clear to you, perhaps, but not to the media, which waited until the late hours to call the race, and to the public that actually bothered to pay attention to the exit polls released throughout the day showing that Kerry would win in not just Ohio, but about another 7 swing states which, somehow or another, ended up going to Bush. Of course, had we bothered to count the votes in Ohio (as we didn't either there or in FL back in 2000), we might know who was actually the winner. Why do you hate democracy and self-governance, Nicholas? The only people "waiting" were the Kerry camp, who didn't want to concede. When they saw there was no way they could win Ohio(100,000 votes isn't 487), they finally conceded. The day after the election, the Kerry camp foolishly (and insultingly, to all of those whose votes were never counted) conceded, despite the fact that had just 6 votes been counted for Kerry instead of Bush in each OH precinct, Kerry would have been the President. Less votes seperate Kerry's victory in Pennsylvania than Bush's in Ohio. But lets not go there! Sure. Let's go there! Let's go anywhere when we're talking about democracy and the Constitution. Think a manual, public, transparent count of all votes should have happened in PA? Sounds good to me! 3)Funny how no one contested the small margins that Obama won certain states with. Gee, now that a Democrat wins, there can't be any voter manipulation(Acorn notwithstanding). I am unaware of a single instance of voting fraud that has anything to do with ACORN. I'm sure you can enlighten me, however, with actual evidence to back up your silly assertion otherwise. That said, "voter manipulation" is not the major concern. Election manipulation, however, from those who have the easiest access to do so (usually election insiders such as officials, and private company employees who access voting machines and tabulators) is a very serious concern. And where such concerns exist, those of us who fight for election integrity to so by any means possible, eg. the recent NY-23 Special Election for U.S. House where the Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman (and the voters in NY-23) seems to have been thoroughly screwed by the state's new, untested, uncertified and failed voting machines, as I discussed in a detailed report or two at the rightwing news outlet Gouverneur Times in Upstate New York. Moreover, apparently you're unfamiliar with our series of coverage detailing Obama's failure to challenge the 2008 NH Primary when Hillary Clinton "won" her upset victory, despite the same failed and faulty Diebold voting machines --- and the company with the criminal background who runs them --- used in much of the state, as will be used in tomorrow's MA Special U.S. Senate Election. (But please don't come crying to me if the Republican loses tomorrow, and there is no way to verify whether he really lost, or if there was manipulation of the machines, because clearly you don't care about such things.) The will of the people prevails! Until Obama loses in 2012, and then suddenly Karl Rove, Diebold and the evil Republicans will be back in business again. They already all, Nicholas. Sorry you don't care enough about freedom and the Constitution to notice.

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... Nunyabiz said on 1/18/2010 @ 10:19 am PT...





Wow Nicholas delusional much? I think the only things Brad left out were that in fact Kerry won by over 8 Million votes if they were counted correctly and that Kerry was ahead of Bush in Florida until "magically" at around 2am in the morning Bush went from 2.5% BEHIND to 2.5% AHEAD which to anyone with the IQ of a fence post knows perfectly well is 100% impossible.

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... Nunyabiz said on 1/18/2010 @ 10:23 am PT...





Oh and one more thing. I think it is quite obvious that Connell was murdered. Same people that murdered Dr. Bruce Ivins to cover up the Anthrax attacks.

Just 2 more out of 100s of reasons to put the entire Bush administration on trial for murder, Treason, war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc.

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... CharlieL said on 1/18/2010 @ 10:31 am PT...





@#1: Yeah, now we can all buy soft-core newstand porn "for the articles." As I recall, it was Larry Flint that broke some very major stories in Hustler in the 1980's. Is there any evidence or conjecture that Connell was planning on coming clean and turning on his corporate paymasters? Or were they just getting overly paranoid that he might? Or was it simply a Cheney-esque matter of "cleaning up loose ends?"

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 1/18/2010 @ 11:02 am PT...





CharlieL asked: Is there any evidence or conjecture that Connell was planning on coming clean and turning on his corporate paymasters? We've reported a bit on that here, if you peruse some of the articles linked above from just before his death, and then following that. That said, I'll let you go pick up Maxim to read what Worrall reports on that point.

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 1/18/2010 @ 11:07 am PT...





Actually, Nicholas Chardonnett #2, given the ability for a wholesale (and largely undetectable) flipping of e-votes in what, for most of the nation, amounted to the "virtual" 2004 election, it really isn't possible to determine whether Bush actually received a majority or even a plurality of votes cast. We do know, from the statistical analysis provided by Stephen Freeman, PhD & Joel Bleifuss in Was the 2004 Election Stolen? that there were significant statistical anomalies between the normally reliable, Warren Mitofski exit-polls and the official count in a large number of states. Indeed, the statistics tell a rather remarkable story. While these stark disparities were not present in thousands of accurate Mitofsky-led exit-polls conducted over the preceding four decades, Freeman/Bleifuss do acknowledge that, counting 2004, there were six occasions where significant discrepancies arose in U.S. presidential elections, the previous five being the general elections of 1988 and 1992, along with the Florida 2000 vote, and in three Republican primaries. “In each of these six incidents…, the official count benefited the mainstream Republican candidate…And, remarkably, in five out of the six elections; the candidate whose official numbers far exceeded exit-poll results was named George Bush." During the 2004 election, in “ten of the eleven battleground states there was a shift --- that is, the official count differed from the exit-poll results—and in all ten the shift favored Bush.” The statistical odds of this occurring are one in 1,024. The discrepancies were especially acute in the key battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida where the shifts in favor of Bush were 4.9%, 6.7% and 6.5%. “Assuming that these state exit-polls had no systematic bias, the likelihood of three such statistical anomalies --- dramatic differences between the official count and the exit-poll projections in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania --- occurring together and all favoring the incumbent, Bush, is about one in 660,000” --- statistics which render it “impossible that the discrepancies” in these three states “could have been due to chance or random error,” according to Freeman/Bleifuss.

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 1/18/2010 @ 11:18 am PT...





As Brad notes in the body of this excellent piece, past history suggests that even with a Maxim article, there is, given past history, scant chance for widespread MSM coverage. I would encourage all who do read this piece and regard its content as vital to prop it at Digg and Reddit and elsewhere.

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]

... renzoku bb.com said on 1/18/2010 @ 11:41 am PT...





thank you Brad, Nunyabiz and all. Even Nicholas for the goofy questions with such good answers. Brad, How much of this is actionable and/or likely to be acted on in a meaningful change bringing (as in non-obama-like-change) way? Is anyone sueing ntsb for release of results and evidence? foia? is anyone sueing the liberal plutocrat owned (sarcasm) phone companies for his texts, phone records and emails off that blackberry? please understand, I ain't advocating giving up. I'm trying to see a move or two ahead since Karl the Turdblossom so obviously plays us so many moves ahead. and cheats. and has so much time and unlimited funds on his side.

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]

... Ancient said on 1/18/2010 @ 12:57 pm PT...





If there were ever a day to say...hey folks, its not about right or left, but right and wrong.

COMMENT #15 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 1/18/2010 @ 1:16 pm PT...





A bit off topic, but on this holiday where we honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968, I felt it appropriate to direct readers to the lengthy excerpt (video) of his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, courtesy of Democracy Now: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]

... LOSER said on 1/18/2010 @ 3:16 pm PT...





OH WOW I'M SO GLAD I READ THIS STORY! AND THE SUPER-SECRET DOCUMENTS TO BACK IT UP EXIST, BECAUSE I HAVE SOME TOO! YES! THEY SHOW THIS GUY WAS MURDERED! ALL THE EXPERTS AGREE! CONTACT ME QUICKLY AND WE CAN PROVE ROVE KILLED THIS GUY! HE ALSO DID 9/11 AND INVENTED AIDS IN SECRET CIA LABORATORIES! THE TRUTH CAN NOW BE TOLD!!!!

COMMENT #17 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 1/18/2010 @ 3:58 pm PT...





LOL LOSER!!!!!

COMMENT #18 [Permalink]

... truthisall said on 1/18/2010 @ 4:14 pm PT...





Brad, It;s amazing how some are either ignorant of the facts, in deep denial, or something worse.. Kerry won by 10 million votes. Here is the proof: http://richardcharnin.com/

COMMENT #19 [Permalink]

... truthisall said on 1/18/2010 @ 4:24 pm PT...





Voter Turnout Analysis Proves Beyond a Reasonable Doubt that the 2004 Election was Stolen http://progressiveindepe...d=4277&mesg_id=4277

COMMENT #20 [Permalink]

... truthisall said on 1/18/2010 @ 4:36 pm PT...





Brad This is the link for the previous post which displays the calculations for all plausible scenarios of a) 2000 Voter turnout in 2004 and b) exit poll vote shares... Kerry wins them ALL.

http://richardcharnin.com/2004TurnoutProof.htm

COMMENT #21 [Permalink]

... MarkH said on 1/18/2010 @ 4:58 pm PT...





I don't get it. LOSER forgot to say it would only cost $39.95 + shipping & handling. What a LOSER! HEH.

COMMENT #22 [Permalink]

... David Lasagna said on 1/18/2010 @ 4:59 pm PT...





There's some great quote about nothing so scary as ignorance in action. When these voices come up here I feel like I'm being mocked and reprimanded by people who would have me believe the earth is the center of solar system, it's flat, night air is bad for you, leeches are good for a cold, CFCs are great for the ozone layer, and on and on and on into the deep deep darkness of stupid. (If you want to know how mad I get, picture Yosemite Sam.)

COMMENT #23 [Permalink]

... renzoku bb.com said on 1/18/2010 @ 8:31 pm PT...





Well named loser. What is funny is that you probably believe the crap dumped on you by the truckload by the corporate oligarchs simply because they all agree with each other and ignore all other opinions. Why not? Heck they even agree with each other that their opinion is the only real possible opinion and all others are fringe, scarey and silly. Are you next gonna tell us Nixon and LBJ sincerely thought they were doing the right thing in Southeast Asia? Or that Kennedy was shot in the head from behind by a lone gunman with an outdated pile of crap bolt action? Might wanna get back to your search for those wmd's in Iraq. How is that whole Orwellian lifestyle thing doing for ya?

COMMENT #24 [Permalink]

... Investigator A said on 1/18/2010 @ 8:37 pm PT...





FAA- Tracking the flight it was at ice alt the entire path from MD to Cleveland. The conditions change over the lake and apporach over little mountain Ohio his flight path. Interview with first responders on scene indicated a large fule dispersion on fire consistant with a high speed crash not an internal elxplsion. The probability of iceing conditions and not evident till approach from buildup was very high.

COMMENT #25 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 1/18/2010 @ 9:33 pm PT...





I sure hope Investigator B wrote up the report....

COMMENT #26 [Permalink]

... Dan-in-Pa said on 1/18/2010 @ 10:03 pm PT...





I would like investigator "A" to cite a document. Because the FAA has yet to release one. I have yet to see a single document that backs that assertion up. Lie to me again mother fucker. Your time is coming to an end.

COMMENT #27 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 1/19/2010 @ 1:45 am PT...





Lemme see, Instigator A doesn't have a cloo, he's just spouting BS for the Feeb cover up yet to cum. "...all the way to the top" indeed.

COMMENT #28 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 1/19/2010 @ 1:50 am PT...





So maybe I should drop my little deal about Instigator B being literate....

COMMENT #29 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 1/19/2010 @ 4:28 am PT...





What I don't get is how you can get fuel to rhyme with mule or yule, unless yer a ferigner or Neil Horsley. Too close to Christmas I guess? Expert: An ex is a "has been" and a spurt is a drip under pressure...

COMMENT #30 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 1/19/2010 @ 4:53 am PT...





A picture is worth a few words in Connells case http://www.defenseindust...00_Radar_on_Truck_lg.jpg

COMMENT #31 [Permalink]

... yikes said on 1/19/2010 @ 6:02 am PT...





Too bad it was not published in a magazine of consequence!

COMMENT #32 [Permalink]

... Scoppertop said on 1/19/2010 @ 5:48 pm PT...





....but it IS!!! What is bradblog, chopped liver? Thanks, Brad, you deserve honors for this story and all the others!

COMMENT #33 [Permalink]

... Edward Rynearson said on 1/20/2010 @ 10:05 pm PT...





Death by small plane crash December 22, 2008 Peter B Collins talks with Brad Friedman, Larisa Alexandrovna and attorney Clifford Arnebeck about the mysterious death by plane crash of Karl Rove’s IT Guru Mike Connell who was set to testify that he participated in manipulating the Ohio 2004 presidential election to insure that George W Bush would remain president of the United States. (non-commercial wordpress radio blog)

COMMENT #34 [Permalink]

... Larisa Alexandrovna said on 1/22/2010 @ 5:06 am PT...





Brad, Raw Story reported on the lockdown

http://rawstory.com/news...spected_in_GOP_0113.html

COMMENT #35 [Permalink]

... aj said on 1/23/2010 @ 3:49 pm PT...





Unless I misread the report, and I admit I merely skimmed it, but the NTSB's investigation ruled icing, which does not seem to jive with atmospheric conditions at the time, nor Serchaks[sp?] comments shortly after the crash Further what is interesting, is the fact that I am on their email list for NTSB'S releases, and I never saw one for the Connell crash. Did anyone report on their what seems to be the official reporT, or have any other comments/observations/information??

COMMENT #36 [Permalink]

... Vic Anderson said on 1/28/2010 @ 7:59 am PT...





Thank You.

COMMENT #37 [Permalink]

... aj said on 1/28/2010 @ 11:26 pm PT...

