HOLY CRAP: whole bunch of right-winger sites on same server as gwb43.com...

[originalpckelly]

Just so many, it's amazing. I'm interested in this, I think we've stumbled into something.

[helderheid]

1. HOLY CRAP IS RIGHT!!! JEEBUS!!!!

[originalpckelly]

4. This is getting to look fucking suspicious. This e49.com...

is a site that provides results to fucking MSNBC. A screen shot of MSNBC.com is on their site!

[mcg]

86. episode49.com founders

http://www.episode49.com/profile.aspx?ID=2

Title says "Ken Smith and Kurt Schaffer" are the founders.
The profiles have the same look and feel as the Airnet/Smartechcorp
web sites (and both companies are in Chattanooga).

http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=e49.com&prog_id=godaddy

Registrant:
episode49, LLC

PO Box 4492
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37412
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: E49.COM
Created on: 02-Mar-05
Expires on: 02-Mar-08
Last Updated on: 02-Nov-06

Administrative Contact:
Schaffer, Kurt [e-mail]
episode49, LLC
PO Box 4492
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37412
United States
4232654040

Technical Contact:
Schaffer, Kurt [e-mail]
episode49, LLC
PO Box 4492
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37412
United States
4232654040

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CHA.SMARTECHCORP.NET
A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET

[mcg]

87. Airnet/Smartechcorp and e49 are on the same street

Episode 49, LLC
3001 Broad St
Chattanooga, TN 37408
[phone]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22episode+49%22+chattanooga&btnG=Search

Smartech Corp is at 801 Broad Street, Suite 220

(Airnet is the parent co. of Smartech)

[Maraya1969]

74. Check out the image page for ggwb43

http://images.google.com/images?q=gwb43&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

[peacetalksforall]

2. Does that mean - independently of the networks? or do they feed

the networks?

[originalpckelly]

5. .

:wow:

[rumpel]

17. open secrets:

REPUBLICAN PARTY
(2006 election cycle)

TOP EXPENDITURES

EPISODE 49,LLC


$495,814


43

http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=EPISODE+49%2CLLC&Cmte=RPC&cycle=2006

[originalpckelly]

19. WHAT! THE! FUCK!???

:shrug:

This is not right folks, I think we've stumbled into something.

[rumpel]

22. I think so, too.

there are only 2 pages of hits on google

must be a company that was set in 2006

[Atman]

3. Calling KO, calling KO...time for an exposé! Come right away!

This whole scam of an administration is in it soooo fucking deep we may never actually know how bad it really is.

.

[AndyA]

6. Holy conspiracy, Batman! Talk about conflict of interest!!

Olbermann needs to get on top of this.

Probably wouldn't hurt to send the info to Conyers, Pelosi, and Reid as well.

[helderheid]

60. YES got this to Conyers, Kucinich, Pelosi, Reid...

[originalpckelly]

7. Frontpage Magazine also uses the same fucking server!

:wow:

I'm going down this list:
http://www.robtex.com/dns/thehuntercompanies.com.html

:wow:

[originalpckelly]

10. This may be illegal, this political action committee supporting...

conservative judicial nominees is also hosted on the same site. This is getting to be pretty fucking interesting.

[aquart]

26. Have our laws even considered this situation?

It's a pretty modern problem. If it's a problem. Is it?

[originalpckelly]

41. I've got an idea of how it might be working:

SmarTech or another company hosting these names, might be providing significantly discounted hosting rates, and the RNC could be paying extremely high rates to compensate for it.

I don't know, I just guessing, but that's the sort of stuff that Duke Cunningham did, and I can't exactly figure out a good reason why all these folks would be using the same company. Maybe a far more reasonable scenario is the company is headed by a right-winger and is being given this as a sort of friendship.

[rumpel]

8. did you see this

Case Studies
CONSUMER SERVICES
Olan Mills, Inc.
Krystal Corporation
Pathway Bookstores

BROADCASTING AND MEDIA
True North Custom Publishing
International Journalists’ Network
Health Journalism Partnership

POLITICAL ACTION
Republican National Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
PoliticalSupport.com
Campaign Parody Sites

NOT FOR PROFIT
Hunter Museum of American Art
Church of God
Memorial Hospital
Baylor School

[Polemicist]

89. Some of those are Chattanooga based companies...

I used to live in Chattanooga a few years back.

Olin Mills and Krystal are Chattanooga based companies.

Baylor school is a private prep school in Chattanooga.

I think Memorial Hospital is in Chattanooga, but I only remember Erlanger.

Church of God's national headquarters is in Cleveland, Tn, just a few miles north of Chattanooga up I-75.

Check out the Church of God connection. That sets off alarm bells for me. These guys are about as hard core Fundamentalist Christianist Republicans as you will find on Earth. I'll bet that nobody but a COGer has that web hosting account.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

9. k&r

shine a little more light on these thugs . . .

[originalpckelly]

15. Newt Gingrich's site uses the same server!

[Purveyor]

11. K&R Indeed! eom

[Atman]

12. We're taking lots of screen shots, right? This could be cloaked by morning.

Why these fucking idiots haven't cloaked the whois info already is beyond me. Just goes to show they don't have a clue what they're dealing with when it comes the vast system of tubes that make up the internets!

.

[notadmblnd]

13. I'll bet Karl rove was e-mailing like hell

on election night.

here's a snip:

pisode49 launches a new Election Results Tracking system for 2006

"Even though we built the original system for the Presidential election back in 2004, this election cycle proved to be challenging." said Ken Smith, managing partner and chief strategist for episode49, LLC. "The additional focus placed on the individual races, especially in the House, required a much more detailed breakdown of the raw data we were collecting."

In 2004, the Republican National Committee was in search of a development firm capable of delivering a bullet proof system to track election night results for the Presidential Election. This system would not only need to track results, but also track exit polling and daytime turnouts. Collection of the data would involve many sources, such as the Associated Press, MCI and thousands of wireless applications with the requirement of delivering the tabulated results of millions of records in 15 minute intervals throughout the day. This need began what has become a very successful business relationship between episode49 and The Bivings Group.
http://e49.com/news/pages/episode49-launches-a-new-Election-Results-Tracking-system-for-2006.html

[jwirr]

81. Who is the Bivings Group? This sounds like voter fraud info.

[renate]

14. can a techie explain to us non-techies how big a deal this is?

I'd thought lots and lots of websites could be on the same server, and I definitely didn't think that being on the same server meant there was any link between the sites.

I'd love to get excited about this--is it really as :wow: as it sounds?

[originalpckelly]

16. This server hosts all these right-wing organizations.

That implies, though it's not beyond a reasonable doubt, that company "e49.com" is a right-wing company. They have a picture of a client site on their's, and it's MSNBC!!!!!!

[renate]

21. thank you!

:hi:

[originalpckelly]

23. no problem. I'm just so shocked right now. All these right-wingers use this one same site!

Absolutely astonishing.

[ck4829]

68. e49.com is a right wing company

Here they give themselves a pat on the back for making sites that attack Democrats and are proud that the Republican Party uses them to do it.

http://e49.com/news/pages/Political-Hit-Sites-Make-a-Big-Splash.html

[stillcool]

28. I don't understand either...

.. they provide email service to the republican party, and provide election results as they come in...but I think it's the part about the White House saying it's a 'private' server, not used for official business. Is that correct...anyone?


Press Release
episode49 launches a new Election Results Tracking system for 2006.
Chattanooga, TN, Tuesday, November 7th, 2006:
“Even though we built the original system for the Presidential election back in 2004, this election cycle proved to be challenging.” said Ken Smith, managing partner and chief strategist for episode49, LLC. ”The additional focus placed on the individual races, especially in the House, required a much more detailed breakdown of the raw data we were collecting.”
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The success of the election night tracking system in 2004 opened the door for episode49 and The Bivings Group to build a newer and more detailed application for the 2006 elections. Turnout percentages and voting results were collected from multiple sources with the addition of updating a detailed polling page that served as scorecard for every race. This was an exciting new feature that enabled users to compare polling numbers from up to 5 of the major polling organizations with the latest results as they were updated. Data was further broken down by congressional and even bellwether districts. A bellwether district is one that has been identified as a leading indicator of future trends.
“We continue to be privileged to build the primary, first response delivery system of election results to the top Republican Organizations around the country,” said Smith, “but it couldn’t be done without a team that remains un-phased by the pressures of knowing that the White House is watching.”

[originalpckelly]

18. Holy crap-o-la! more interesting shit: rncftp.com

Gives you a login screen when you go there! Must be an internal ftp.

[originalpckelly]

20. Scooter Libby's defense fund is also there!

:wow:

This just gets more and more interesting as I'm reading down the list!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

24. That's amazing.

They really aren't too smart . . .

[NMDemDist2]

25. that certainly raises questions of the famous shot of Rover grinning

on election night sitting in front of his laptop doesn't it?

:argh:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

27. yeah, that shit-eatin' grin came to my mind too.

I never imagined we'd ever get to the bottom of what was going on that night.

But we might.

[renate]

29. ditto what Atman said earlier

Is anybody taking screen shots? I don't know how.

And another dumb question: is there any chance they can cover their tracks--that is, by erasing or moving all their data--once they notice they've been noticed?

[riderinthestorm]

30. Kick. Non-techie here but even I can recognize this is dirty shit.

I'm assuming you are making connections that lead to reasonable suspicion about RNC collusion to defraud the election results?

I'm betting there are more connections though, is what you are concluding. I just don't know enough about how a hosting server works to understand what kind of illegalities there may be.

[originalpckelly]

42. If the company is headed by a right-winger, it's possible s/he...

could have manipulated the results reported to change public opinion.

[rumpel]

31. seems firm started in March of 05

Registrant:
episode49, LLC

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: E49.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CHA.SMARTECHCORP.NET
A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=e49.com

[jackstraw45]

37. NOPE - Much earlier than that...THANKS Internet Wayback Machine

http://web.archive.org/web/20010202131500/http://episode49.com/

As far back as February 2001

[Quakerfriend]

32. Well, so much for national security!

:eyes:

[StefanX]

33. So basically Rove is hacking our elections?

WTF? This is scary (and ballsy and sloppy).

Republicans are a friggin mafia and their so-called "party" should simply be banned from US politics.

They're not playing by the rules, and there should be something more than a wrist-slap for this.

Rule of Law, Rule of Law, etc.

[wicket]

34. This is HUGH!!!!

:rofl:

[Moochy]

65. The Problem is many on this thread are Series!!11

:rofl:

[wicket]

79. ROFL!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[L. Coyote]

35. NO BIG DEAL.

This is about as exciting as an Irishman buying beer from an Irish-owned bar.

If you had a political domain, would you hst it with an opposing party? NOT. You would want a "trustworthy" host, meaning politically like-minded.

[jackstraw45]

40. Why is the OFFICIAL OHIO Election return site on the same server?

Why are WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS doing business on it today?

Oh, that's right, Bush won in Florida and Ohio...

[L. Coyote]

55. ANYONE can post official election results on their domain. I do too!!

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos is the official site for the Secretary of State of Ohio.

The appropriate whois is therefore http://whois.us/

Here is the query result:

.US Registry WHOIS Data

Domain Name STATE.OH.US
Domain ID D3624336-US
Sponsoring Registrar US LOCALITY
Domain Status serverTransferProhibited
Registrant ID RTONCE326
Registrant Name Vince Corroto
Registrant Organization State of Ohio, Office of IT
Registrant Address1 1320 Arthur E. Adams Dr.
Registrant Address2 Suite 303
Registrant City Columbus
Registrant State/Province OH
Registrant Postal Code 43221

[Moochy]

64. Agreed. No big deal.

We need more technically knowledgeable folks to give this perspective.

Umbrella organizations make these kinds of decisions, and then the smaller orgs are told to use this service provider.

When I decide to host an application, I tend to stick with the same ISP.

This is less than a tempest in a teapot.

[rumpel]

36. wow

google this term:

A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET

[KansDem]

38. Check this list of news stories/press releases on its site

09.08.05 Make-A-Wish receives e49 support
09.06.05 e49 helps Hurricane Katrina relief
08.31.05 e49 Advances Education Tracking Nationally
08.30.05 e49 renews functions for Church of God website
08.23.05 RNC Has e49 Overhaul Primary Voter Application
08.02.05 e49 success reported in Times-Free Press
07.11.05 e49 leads in innovation initiative
06.09.05 New Multimedia at Hunter Museum Opening
06.08.05 South Broad move aids redevelopment
05.07.05 Discussion leads Autotherm to Chattanooga
04.26.05 Frederick Doe Joins e49
04.25.05 RNC retains e49 for development
04.20.05 NRSC Awards Development to e49
04.06.05 e49 Expands and Relocates
12.10.04 GoalCentrix Allies with e49

http://www.e49.com/news/pages/The-Republican-National-Committee-RNC-has-selected-episode49.html

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has selected episode49

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has selected episode49 to overhaul their primary application for boosting voter participation.

The current development builds on a prior project with the RNC that involved acquiring voter information for the entire country. The information was used to contact people who probably otherwise would not have voted.

"We were able to leverage our experience and technology to manage millions of time-sensitive database records provided by multiple sources." said Kurt Schaffer, managing partner and chief systems architect.

The RNC selected episode49 based on episode49's past experience in developing secure systems on the Microsoft .NET platform that involved large databases. Quick access and timely loading for the new project is essential.

episode49 provided evidence of their ability to create time- sensitive systems with their election night tracking application. Political leaders relied on it for the most accurate and up to the minute results in 2004. While the access was restricted to state and national party headquarters, it was the source for results from voter turnout to the presidential race throughout the country.

In preparation for the 2006 elections, episode49 is working on several political action focused projects, including a major site which was launched just over one month ago.

"The site features the latest technology to maximize online fundraising, mobilize our grassroots political organization, as well as state of the art communications tools." said Elizabeth Dole, Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

[peacetalksforall]

43. Did the phone jamming people operate through this server? nt

[KansDem]

45. You got me!

Perhaps a DU-techie can answer that...I'm still trying to absorb all of this and trying to figure out what it means!

[peacetalksforall]

49. Do you show nrsc.org and gopsenators.com on the server?

Location of servers - Tennessee Chattanooga (is that the place this research involves?)
Shows the two servers that are being mentioned.

One or both are involved in paying towards the fine for phone jamming in NH.

Ignore if redundant.

[originalpckelly]

51. I just went to check out gopmarketplace in the internet archive...

and while months ago I could get the site, not it forbids it saying the company put a "robots.txt" on it. hmmmm.

[shanine]

53. gopsenators.com/net/ are there n/t

[lonestarnot]

39. WTF is that!

:wow:

[originalpckelly]

44. Holy shit, another votervault site, and to boot it's got GWB's picture on it!

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

46. apparently it pooped out as I can't get there.

"unavailable."

[originalpckelly]

47. Biggest internet registry company's PAC, Verisign, is on same server...

:wow:

Verisign, maybe I'm just new to the party on this, but that's a little frightening.

[lonestarnot]

48. OpcK What is the address. I wanna see.

[originalpckelly]

52. verisignpac.com

It's in this list of sites that use the same nameserver as gwb43.com:
http://www.robtex.com/dns/gwb43.com.html

[lonestarnot]

66. Thanks.

[BuyingThyme]

50. I don't get it.

Looks like a job for BradBlog.

[L. Coyote]

56. NOTHING to get except like-minded people hang together. NOT NEWS

[BuyingThyme]

58. Yeah. Well, except for the fact that

official DOJ business is being conducted on a private server, thus is not available to the public. That's something, but probably nothing in the context of these threads.

[IChing]

54. Is Gannon's site with this group? (this is like the connection to CREEP/NIXON

This is a great find

[Hailtothechimp]

57. All Roads lead to Hunter Properties, Inc. in Chattanooga, TN

That explains a lot of the Chattanooga/Bob Corker type links.

And I went to Hunter Properties website, and their staff page was taken down. All the rest of it was working fine. Something's up.

Try www.bigfrogvillage.com to see for yourself.

[originalpckelly]

62. Thanks to archive.org we can see what the page said at one time:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041207163937/http://www.bigfrogvillage.com/Staff/staff.asp

[mcg]

88. The staff page at Airnet/Smartech

I saw a staff page this morning at either the Airnet or Smartech site and now I can't find it.
Hmmmm. Maybe they are on the internet wayback machine.

[Scout1071]

59. link? what are you talking about?

[originalpckelly]

63. Here:

http://www.robtex.com/dns/gwb43.com.html

It's a list of websites that use the same nameserver. A nameserver translates an internet address in english to an ip address in numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameserver

[The Backlash Cometh]

61. Are you saying that George Bush needed a private GOP owned

server because he didn't trust any other server?

[stillcool]

67. interesting...but I don't know if it's worth anything...

The one thing that ties together all our work is that our clients have complex requirements beyond just supplying a look. They need their sites to perform for their staff and people they serve. For them, it's more than just images.

We have connected listeners, donors and voters to the media sources, charitable organizations and candidates that matter to them, making it possible for their supporters to take action through what we've built. Our experience in consumer services is substantial, enabling our client's customers to place online transactions securely, and to be supported throughout their interactions with the company.

Because of our continuing commitment to our political action clients, episode49 only accepts development from political organizations whose mission is consistent with our existing client base.

Due to the success of the Presidential election night tracking system in 2004, episode49 and the Bivings Group have again been asked by the RNC to build a similar system for the 2006 election cycle. The site provides a secure interface for Republican leaders to analyze election statistics in real-time in order to activate grassroots volunteers.

[grasswire]

69. read it again, pals...

....

"Because of our continuing commitment to our political action clients, episode49 only accepts development from political organizations whose mission is consistent with our existing client base.

Due to the success of the Presidential election night tracking system in 2004, episode49 and the Bivings Group have again been asked by the RNC to build a similar system for the 2006 election cycle. The site provides a secure interface for Republican leaders to analyze election statistics in real-time in order to activate grassroots volunteers."

[originalpckelly]

72. I know, I reread it...

someone else found out that the same site provided election results for Ohio SOS site, however. There is another thread in GD about that.

[grasswire]

70. has anyone posted any of this to kos or TPM yet?

I'll tip the WaPo and KO in a little bit.

A list of the clients on the server would be real helpful if someone can post it here.

[Old and In the Way]

73. It originally came from dkos....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/7/144314/082

It's not that the Republicans host their outreach on the same server...it's what might have occured in Ohio in '04...it appears that Blackwell outsourced the official site to an IP address that is hosted by these people. Hmmm.

[jwirr]

82. What about Diebald? Spelling?

[Old and In the Way]

85. Diebold certainly got all of the attention (or the lion's share).

Wally O'Dell (sp?), CEO of Diebold. was a Bush Pioneer and was opn record that he would "deliver" Ohio to Bush. Given the natural skeptism of an electronic device that isn't transparent, it was something to worry about. But this whole operation of outsourcing the numbers to an RNC server really has me wondering if the Diebold issue wasn't a feint (in some part) to cover for where the real action was. All I know is Karl has quite a internet boiler room operation going on in the WH...if he could see the actuals and how they were accummulating, maybe he could make one big "adjustment".

This reminds me of a DU thread from election night in Ohio
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1290765
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1290765&mesg_id=1290765

I assume this data mirrored off the results that were being posted on Ken Blackwell's "official" election results site.

@12:41AM:
<>
@1:41
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Amazing how the small population increase in the exit polls had such a dramatic change in the mix.

[WHAT]

77. link...

http://www.robtex.com/dns/rncftp.com.html

lists on left side alphabetical

[GregD]

71. have a look at this one

http://www.execonsult.com/

In their news section on the front page it states:

08-22-2004 - Local company hosts GOP Internet sites
By Andy Sher Washington Bureau

with a link to http://www.execonsult.com/index.php?page=news&sub=story&id=68

This server appears to be a good resource for whoever runs the "shop blue" resource guide.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

75. HERE IS ONE OF THE CO-HABITANTS . SEE WHAT YOU GET

http://debatefacts.net/

[Arugula Latte]

76. I hope you smart peeps figure this out and tell me what it means.

:dunce:

[DesEtoiles]

78. does Lieberman have a site on that server?

[Arugula Latte]

83. Hah! I wouldn't be surprised ... nt

[Jamastiene]

90. It means the Ohio election results came

from a right wing web server (computer) from what I have gathere so far. Also, it means that the RNC could have tained said results.

[Arugula Latte]

93. Oh holy crap.

:wow:

[AwakeAtLast]

80. Morning KICK

I think this needs to be kept on the front burner, too!

:kick:

[NastyDiaper]

84. Hookers don't trick because it's fun.

Of course freebies and payola are involved.

[Jamastiene]

91. Kicking again in case this thing comes in handy later.

[Mme. Defarge]

92. Check this out!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5467221

Thought this was worth saving from 11/05.

[Supersedeas]

94. Yep, thats worth it

[skipos]

95. Hell yeah