Behind the firewall: Bush loyalist Mike Connell controls Congressional secrets as his email sites

[babsbunny]

serve Karl Rove!!!!!!

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2008/1665

Columns
Bob Fitrakis

Behind the firewall: Bush loyalist Mike Connell controls Congressional secrets as his email sites serve Karl Rove
July 29, 2008

In 2001, Michael L. Connell of GovTech Solutions, L.L.C., a notoriously partisan GOP operative and Bush family confidant, was selected to re-organize the Capitol Hill IT network. Under the guise of selecting a female-owned IT company (Connell’s wife Heather is listed as the owner), former Congressman and convicted felon Bob Ney reportedly arranged for Connell to be the man behind the firewall for the U.S. House of Representatives. Connell’s role and activities need to be investigated by putting Connell under oath and examining how arguably one of the country’s most zealously partisan IT specialists managed to land the contract and be allowed access to this electronic communication system.

Initially, Connell’s forays into partisan politics had very public ups and downs. Connell got his big break in 1987 as a staff member for former CIA Director and Vice President George H.W. Bush’s successful campaign for president. He programmed and developed an advanced delegate tracking system for Republican National Convention in 1988. With no presidential campaign in 1990, Connell emerged in partisan politics, this time in a well-publicized scandal. On November 11, 1990, Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) fired Connell for his role in a “push polling” scheme that Coats denounced as “clearly unethical.” Next, Connell resurfaced as a congressional staffer and mouthpiece as U.S. Rep. Martin R. Hoke’s (R-OH) Communication Director in 1993-4.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Wake up Congressional Dems. Playing dumb is just going to make you dumber.

These fascit republicon homelanders play dirty, play for keeps.

And it shows as you keep getting your legislative jocks jerked.

[tanyev]

2. Kick.