Velvet Revolution’s investigation of the crimes of Karl Rove and Mike Connell

[ThirdChoice]

Source: Glynn Wilson - Blog.LocustFork

Investigative Reporter follows up on Velvet Revolution’s investigation of the crimes of Karl Rove and Mike Connell by going into the bowels of the GOP dominated SmartTech where the secrets of the Bush scandals are hidden.

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Evidence of Bush-Rove Crimes Hidden Away in Southern Town

by Glynn Wilson

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Hidden away in the basement of a bank building on Broad Street here, there is a bank of computer servers containing all the evidence Congress and the courts need to investigate and prosecute all the crimes of the Bush years. That includes the mysteriously missing e-mail messages sent by Karl Rove from his White House office through the Republican National Committee e-mail addresses from his special Blackberry reserved for political activities.

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http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/03/01/white-house-rnc-email-backed-up-in-chattanooga/


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[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Hope this pans out!

Someone needs to blow the lid off the Bush-Crimes-Bigger-Than-Nixon-Missing-Minutes-On-Tape!

[debbierlus]

2. Kick

[Stevepol]

3. K&R!!!

[bertman]

4. Isn't broadcasting this all over the internets going to clue them in that they need to

DESTROY that evidence? Or is it indestructible?

[southernyankeebelle]

5. Lets hope the wheels of justice moves alittle faster

[troubleinwinter]

6. The amazing video shows that there is actually A TABLE AND CHAIRS.

Geeze, Brett, this is incredibly stupid. "a high-tech doorway complete with security scanner"- it's a doorbell. "a secret elevator deep inside the building"- uh, the building's staff/freight elevator? Zero says that it is "secret".

Your associate "web journalist" shows up without an appointment, looks like a hobo who hasn't bathed in a week, tells the salesman that he's "just campin' out in the Smokies...Dolly Parton..."

So the banks of servers are disguised to look like a table and chairs. Amazing scoop.

Brett, this IS a serious subject. This sort of silliness does us no good. VR ought to be able to do better than this. This is total nonsense.

[CowboyW]

7. This amazing video shows you inside the compound

What kind of a Democrat are you? This video shows the inside of the GOP-IT compound, and the story, based on sources, puts the heat on this issue.

Rather than bashing something you don't understand in a forum, why don't you pick up the phone and call Conyers and urge him to get a subpoena together to go after these e-mails? Major evidence of crimes.

Have you never seen a Michael Moore movie?

[troubleinwinter]

8. Hello, cowboy. Welcome to DU.

I do not have to explain what kind of Democrat I am. I would think you would not make your first post a swing at someone here. I should have to defend my Dem creds to a first time poster??!!! Where the fuck have you been the last many years?

What makes it a "compound"? "story, based on sources", well, I do think the issue is avery important one, as I stated. The article and video are stupid.

I guess that since this is your first post, you couldn't possibly have a clue how many letters I've sent to Rep. John Conyers over the years.

There is clear evidence of crimes, but this article and video are embarrassingly silly, weak and make us look assinine.

WTF does MM have to do with anything?

[troubleinwinter]

9. This video shows no "evidence"

of anything.

It shows a table and chairs. A grody camper. It shows a discussion with a salesman who says he "knocks on doors".

What is the "evidence" that you find?

[troubleinwinter]

10. I apologize. I overlooked that you called the video "amazing".

That is hilarious. I invite readers to waste ten minutes watching a stupid video of super-secret tables and chairs. Ya got 'em, dude!

[Peace Patriot]

15. Welcome to DU, CowboyW! I hope you stick around. You have good instincts.

It is entirely appropriate to ask, what kind of a Democrat are you? There are many kinds at DU, as well as many non-Democrats. It is an open forum. And tenure at this forum tells you nothing about anybody's Democratic creds. So, keep asking that.

I was quite interested in the video, as I explain below in my response to Troubleinwinter. I was interested to see the Puke offices, and hoping that Wilson would get lucky, in his ruse of being a "good 'ol boy," and happen upon someone who knew something about Rove's emails and might blurt something out. That was Wilson's tactic. He didn't luck out, but he tried, and meanwhile we got a closeup of the scene of the crime. He made it real. He took us right into their building. (One thing he discovered was the lack of security--or apparent lack of security--which might mean that the backups of Rove's emails aren't there any more.)

And you are perfectly correct, that, rather than grousing around about someone else's work, we should be pressuring Conyers, and taking other measures to secure our democracy--for instance, local/state action to demand transparent vote counting. One of the things that occurred in these servers in Tennessee was re-routing of the Ohio election data on the night of 11/2/2004. What was Ohio's election data doing in Tennessee that night, on a Republican server? I'd like to know.

Again, WELCOME!

[Peace Patriot]

14. "...looks like a hobo who hasn't bathed in a week...". It was obvious to me,

watching the video, that Glynn Wilson (the indy reporter) was trying to look and active unobtrusive, just a "good 'ol boy." That's why he's dressed the way he is, and why he tells several people he's camping in the Smokies. That is a good journalistic technique for getting people to talk. I also could see that he went without an appointment for this same reason. He didn't want some canned, prepared response. He wanted to catch people off guard. The people he wanted to catch off guard--someone who might know about the RNC backup servers--unfortunately were all in a meeting (we see it through the interior glass doors, inside), so his timing wasn't great, but he couldn't have known that. Had one of them been walking around the hallways, he might have gotten something important--a spontaneous answer that could have helped find the Rove emails. Reporters have to take these kind of chances. They don't get stories otherwise. Also, he doesn't look like a "hobo." I've seen plenty of techies who look like him (overweight, careless, casual dress; look like they've slept in their clothes). If he had shown up all spiffy in a suit like a corporate reporter or an FBI agent or a private investigator, he would have reduced the chances of a spontaneous answer.

I thought the video was quite interesting. I was fascinated to see the actual offices of this nest of Bushwhack Republicans, and I thought Wilson's wrapup was excellent. He's standing in front of the building afterward, and he says something like this (paraphrase), 'Behind me in this building are the answers to all of the questions about Rove's 'disappeared' emails, that Congress is interested in, and has issued subpoenas about. Congress, where you? The evidence is on backup servers right here, in this building. Come get it!'

It is an apt challenge to John Conyers and Congress to go after these crimes. It is also a challenge to the corporate media, which should be doing just this--what Wilson did: go to the source, ask questions. Where are they?

The only objection I had to the video was the cameraman's penchant for shooting people from the neck down. It could have been a little less indy-media-ish. I was still interested, though.

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"This sort of silliness does us no good."--troubleinwinter

Who do you mean by "us"?

[libodem]

11. I hope this isn't more psychological torture

of getting our hopes up and then having the rug pulled out from under us. I can't take much more of it. I think it's an unhealthy abuse of the general public to tease us this way.

[goforit]

12. Pandoras box must be open to one and all.

[we can do it]

13. kick