A "Deep Throat" Emerges in the Mike Connell Plane Crash

[babylonsister]

A "Deep Throat" Emerges in the Mike Connell Plane Crash


An anonymous informant has provided information indicating that an airplane piloted by Republican computer expert Mike Connell was sabotaged before it crashed on December 19, 2008, near Akron, Ohio.

One of Connell's sisters says she believes the family will file a wrongful-death lawsuit against Republican strategist Karl Rove if foul play ever is proven in the plane crash.

Those are two of the major revelations in a stunning recent investigative piece at BradBlog, by award-winning television producer and writer Rebecca Abrahams.

Connell, the founder of New Media Communications in Richfield, Ohio, was considered a skilled and experienced pilot. He developed campaign Web sites for a number of Republican clients, including George W. Bush and John McCain.

Connell had been forced to give a deposition in an election-fraud lawsuit on November 3, 2008, the day before the general election. Roughly six weeks later, his plane crashed next to a vacant house in Lake Township, Ohio, as Connell was returning from a business trip to Washington, D.C. The cause of the crash is unknown, and it remains under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Why was Mike Connell a central figure in election-fraud issues? And why have questions been raised about the nature of the plane crash that killed him? Abrahams summarizes:

Although mainly un-reported, there's a great deal of controversy surrounding Connell's death--largely in part because he was the architect of many Republican websites including GeorgeWBush.com and GWB43.com, the site Karl Rove used for 95% of his email correspondence. Connell was also considered a key witness in the election fraud lawsuit King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell. The suit implicates Former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell, Karl Rove and others of 2004 election night vote rigging.

Attorneys in the case believe that Connell, who had not been accused of any wrongdoing, had firsthand knowledge about the missing White House emails and Rove's alleged wrongdoing with respect to the 2004 Presidential election.

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http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2009/12/deep-throat-emerges-in-mike-connell.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I ain't gonna do it this time.

I ain't gonna get my hopes up, I ain't gonna start jumping up & down. Been down this road too many times since Fitz did his song & dance routine.

[glinda]

3. I know. No pursuit comes of any wrong doing it seems.

[Wapsie B]

8. Same here.

Anyone who seriously challenges the status quo in this country is quickly Kennedy'd.

[L. Coyote]

31. More subterfuge to give credibility to a false flag story.

Since the original story of the electronic election fraud in a punch card election is simply a not-even-credible hoax, this is likely just as contrived.

[WhiteTara]

46. I'm still holding a bottle of champagne

in hopes that justice will be served in my lifetime. I wonder how long champagne "lasts"

[Katya Mullethov]

47. When Paul Harvey started pitching cold fusion

I just threw up my hands at that point .

[12string]

2. Mike Connell plane crash

Thanks for posting this.I am glad this has not yet been completely swept under the rug.

[L. Coyote]

57. SourceWatch: Mike Connell

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Connell

[Octafish]

4. Thank goodness.

May Justice be served.

[Ignis]

17. Sometimes all it takes is one brave soul to tell the truth.

:patriot:

[L. Coyote]

34. And it takes someone hiding their identity to tell lies like this.

Why would you call it truth?

[global1]

5. Has Connell's Deposition Been Made Public?.......

who is in possession of the deposition that Connell had supposedly had made before his untimely death?

Also the fact that Rove, Cheney, et al have maintained such public positions since the Obama administration has been in power suggests to me that they have operatives on the inside of agencies that are protecting them and they know that they will be protected. Otherwise one would think that these criminals would find a rock and hide under it never to be heard from again.

I sure do wish that something, somewhere, will expose these criminals for who and what they are and put them away. One has got to think that they didn't have all the angles covered and made some mistakes or that they have enemies out there that can put them away.

[Bitwit1234]

10. I know some won't agree but I almost wish to see rove in an

orange jumpsuit and ankle shackles more so than cheney. rove is the most devious, underhanded lying S.O.B this country has ever produced. I can still see the crowd of republican thugs he sent to Florida trying to break down the door of the ballot counting room. That right there shows the arrogance of this guy.

[SpiralHawk]

14. "Sneer." - Karl 'DraftDodger' Rove (R - Chickenhawk)

[L. Coyote]

35. There is nothing to tell.

[cascadiance]

6. A revelation like this, if true, would make me also wonder about Paul Wellstone's fate too...

... and whether similar things happened then too.

Hope we get to the truth!

[Jackpine Radical]

13. I've benn wondering about that one since it happened.

And Wellstone brought Mel Carnahan to mind. I think Carnahan went down to open the way for John Ashcroft but they miscalculated and took him out a few weeks too soon; there was time to run his wife, and she beat Ashcroft, so they gave Crisco John the AG slot as a consolation prize. Having learned from the Carnahan debacle, they waited on Wellstone until just before the election, leaving no time to field a credible candidate. They ended up having to bring Fritz Mondale out of mothballs.

[Octafish]

23. Blackwater is VERY conservative.

Willing to perform contracts for America.
What's stopping them from playing God ON America?

[Arctic Dave]

27. Yep. Would Cheney have Prince off this guy to shut him up. I think so.

[Octafish]

28. BFEE considered him a 'little chickenshit.'

Per Poppy. Rove considered Sen. Wellstone their greatest enemy.

[Botany]

7. One could only hope that the truth will come out.

n/t

[Blue Owl]

9. The stench surrounding Karl Rove is so rancid

But God forbid any justice would ever come to this greasy turd who is hell-bent on disemboweling our democracy from within.

Fuck you Karl, you goddamned piece of shit.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. +1

The little monster deserves a gallows.

[intheflow]

29. Welcome to DU!

Nice avatar! :hi:

And of course, you're 100% right about the greasy turd.

[malaise]

12. And this is not on M$Greedia because

???????

Best news of the week. Frog march that fucker Rove.

[muriel_volestrangler]

45. Because it's just an anonymous claim

Anonymous claims have been made about this before. On DU, for instance. Several people have said here "it was an assassination". And that's what the email says. There's no indication in the article that the writer of the email was in any position to know what happened. That's why the 'Deep Throat' name is misleading. The Washington Post knew who they were dealing with - a government official. All we know about this person is that they can send email.

[jgraz]

15. Oh come on. We really need to keep Looking Forward™

What's a little political murder between friends?

[Kingofalldems]

16. K and R

I presume relevant authorities are investigating as we write.

[nashville_brook]

18. amazing. kicking for amazingness.

[TheUnspeakable]

19. k&r

[winyanstaz]

20. K & R,,,,,,

so...when will these war criminals and murderes be brought to trial?>????

[Syntheto]

21. Yawn...just like...

...Wellstone and Carnahan...sigh...Yep, it's a conspiracy...Rove, Cheney, Palin, they all knew about it... jesus, it gets as bad as freerepublic around here sometimes.

[L. Coyote]

36. When people want to believe, they get pretty zoned out and crazy, and lose all reason

Yeah, that's what the Reublicans do at church on Sundays, conspire to murder their fellow Republicans
because some equally-zoned losers with a losing lawsuit deposed one of them about a false flag story :rofl:

Good to see a sign of sanity in this thread. This sort of blind faith is tiresome, and diminished DU credibility or I would ignore it.

[Marr]

41. Yep. People often abandon healthy skepticism when

faced with information they want to believe.

[TicketyBoo]

42. Yep.

Until I came to DU, I didn't realize there were as many on the loony left as there are on the loony right.

I feel like the fulcrum on a teeter-totter.

[bigmonkey]

22. What I don't get is how some reject such possibilities out of hand.

It's like the White Queen's promise of jam every other day to Alice: you could have had it yesterday, and you can have it tomorrow, but you can't have it today. People will admit that political assassinations happened in the past, could happen in the future, but they insist that they are definitely not happening now, and anybody who thinks they are happening is unhinged. It's very strange.

[annabanana]

59. +1

[BeHereNow]

24. YES! K&R

I can dream, can't I?

BHN

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

25. Dumb. n/t

[AzDar]

26. K & R

[avaistheone1]

30. Thank God someone finally came forward.

I hope that someone has protection. Karl Rove is one of the most evil bastards in the world. There is no telling what Rove is capable of doing.

[L. Coyote]

33. Noone came forward. Identifying oneself would be coming forward.

This is simply not credible because it builds on a pile of falsehoods.

[avaistheone1]

39. Tell us, oh holy informed one. What are the pile of falsehoods?

Grace us with your enlightened wisdom.


Are you going to tell us Karl Rove is a person of integrity? I doubt it because that would be a huge lie.

Are you going to tell us the electronic voting machines are safe and tamper-proof? I hope not because that be another monstrous lie.

[L. Coyote]

52. Why are you inferring "electronic voting machines" have anything to do with this story?

Ohio 2004 was primarily punch card voting. You have swallowed the ruse, it seems!

[ellie]

60. I live in Toledo, OH

In 2004, I was living in Whitehouse, OH and voted on an electronic voting machine. Here are just a couple of articles on it:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

Do you live in Ohio? I didn't check your profile. If you do, did you vote punch card or machine in 2004?

[L. Coyote]

32. Read these stories with skepticism.

"The suit implicates Former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell, Karl Rove and others of 2004 election night vote rigging" is a stretch! There are allegations Blackwell used color of office, but the case was already dismissed once.

"The King-Lincoln lawsuit maintains the results of the 2004 election were routed through SmartTech servers in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Election Night before being rerouted back to Ohio's then-Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell," is not even worth commenting on. Counties know what their vote totals are, and have to submit official counts later. This sort of "allegation" is more like a test of human stupidity than a credible claim! If you believe this is how elections are fixed, you are totally stupid and completely naive.

[druidity33]

44. just because a case is dismissed

does not mean the allegations are not credible.

I think you are the one being naive here. Elections can be fixed in any number of ways. The whole frigging point is that counties do not know for certain what their vote tallies are because... wait for it... they were tallied on a faulty voting system with NO TRANSPARENCY, no auditing procedure and no paper/backup proof. Remember Diebold? How many states have banned them? Why is HAVA still in existence?

And, you know what... i'd want to be anonymous too if i were the only one who had information about an assassination where the perpetrator had not been caught. The story is entirely plausible. I and many others here predicted it in fact. More than a few people here on DU could be found saying, "He should stay out of small planes".

Could you please point directly to the "falsehoods" you perceive here?


:shrug:

[L. Coyote]

51. Ohio 2004 was primarily punch card ballots. That is PAPER!

You just pointed out the falsehood yourself be stating it. Which type of voting was in place in Ohio in 2004?

I'm not sauying the whole story is made of whole cloth, I'm saying get the facts straight
and see past the hand you are supposed to watch at the magic show, so you know what crimes the other hand ACTUALLY committed.

Forget the voting lawsuit and the consider the missing White House e-mails as criminal evidence! Consider who hosted the missing White House e-mails.

[druidity33]

55. did they recount the paper?

Or did they depend on the "central tabulators" for the recount? Are the punch cards still around, or have they been destroyed? Do you have an issue with BradBlogs' reporting on this case? Becase from what i read there, there are many issues to be concerned about.

I also consider the missing e-mails a criminal offense... but that's not what this thread was about, so i didn't comment on it. If there was nothing wrong with the election results, i don't understand why there was so much shady shit going on...


Why are you so adamant about dismissing this complaint? It sounds utterly reasonable to me to want the outcome to be proven, because obviously it never was to the satisfaction of all parties. Please don't get huffy with me for wanting this looked into... it's really not your place.

:shrug:

[L. Coyote]

56. That you have to ask these qestions evidences ignorance of the topic.

And, I spent my time investigating the actual fraud, so I know what was wrong with the elections results, why "so much shady shit" is going on, and who is doing it.

And, I don't have time to explain it all ad infinum every time the disinformation pops back up. Search DU for my handle and SmarTech and read it for yourself.

[druidity33]

58. I wasn't claiming to be an authority...

and i didn't know you were. I will take the time to read some of your work. I have been depending on BradBlog and RawStory for news on this matter. Should i not be?



rereading my prior post i don't see how it would have impositioned you to have answered the few questions i asked (since you've investigated it and all):

"Did they recount the paper or did they depend on the "central tabulators" for the recount? Are the punch cards still around or have they been destroyed? Do you have an issue with BradBlogs' reporting on this case?"

:shrug:

[L. Coyote]

37. A "Deep Throat" is an informant who brings down a President. This is a sick joke

at best.

[JetJaguar]

40. Deep Throat was a blue joke

used to label an unidentified informant.

Coined from an X rated movie from the 70's.

Now it is a euphemism to describe an anon source.

Like a "skateboard" is not just a 2x4 with a split

skate nailed to it anymore.

[arikara]

38. One other interesting thing about this thread

is how nobody bothers to respond to the debunkers.

Way to go!

:-)

[d_b]

43. come on, a plane crash?

repubs gotta do better than that.

for the record, I called his murder two months before it happened. booya!

[fascisthunter]

48. Unfortunately, crooks are in power

so I'm not sure this will go anywhere.

[BREMPRO]

49. i hope they can prove this and put those responsible in jail

they are already scheduled to burn in hell, but a trial, guilty verdict and jail while they wait would be welcome.

sweating yet Mr. Rove?

[ensho]

50. kick

nt

[L. Coyote]

53. "Why was Mike Connell a central figure in election-fraud issues?" HE IS NOT!!!

Here is what is important in this story: " .... there's a great deal of controversy surrounding Connell's death--largely in part because he was the architect of many Republican websites including GeorgeWBush.com and GWB43.com .... " albeit it is not correctly stated. This is what the article should actually emphasize:

Mike Connell's company hosted the domains and hence likely served as the mail server for all the e-mails the Bush administration wanted to keep from the public.

Many of those e-mails are already known to evidence crimes, esp. voter caging in Florida.

What some people on this thread fail to see is that they are being purposefully distracted by a ruse that is so transparent, believing it makes them transparently stupid! If they know how votes were switched in Ohio, they would see through the ruse. But, the disinformation campaign began before the votes were stolen, to hide how they were stolen. And it continues to this day, and the myths are now re-spun by the most radical lefties because they want to believe the ruse.

If I were Karl Rove, I would fear I was next, not that I would be blamed! If Mike Connell had a problem in life, it was that he knew what Karl Rove knows because he was the IT specialist who hosted all those e-mails. In fact, he had access to more e-mails than Karl's because he had access to anything and everything that passed through those domains.

[L. Coyote]

54. This story gets 99 recs, while revelations about a secret war in Pakistan go practically unnoticed.

Maybe that is why this story is emerging now!
There is no need for Tiger Woods on DU! :rofl:

[charlie]

61. Related: Dr David Kelly Death - Legal Move For New Inquest

Six doctors have launched a legal action to demand that the inquest into weapons expert David Kelly's death is reopened.

They say there is not enough evidence to prove he committed suicide and are publishing a hard-hitting report which they claim proves the Government scientist did not kill himself as the Hutton Report decided.

Lord Hutton concluded he bled to death as a result of a cut to his wrist and an overdose of painkillers.

But Michael Powers QC, an expert in coroners' law, said the cut would not have caused him to bleed to death, and there was only a normal dose of co-proxamol in his body.
...

"From the evidence that we have as to the circumstances of his death, in particular the aspect of haemorrhage, we do not believe that there was sufficient evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he killed himself."
...

They have instructed solicitors Leigh Day and Co, who are to approach the Attorney General Baroness Scotland to try to get the matter considered by the High Court.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Dr-David-Kelly-Legal-Action-To-Prove-Weapons-Expert-Was-Murdered/Article/200912115492260