Letter Sent to Attorney General Mukasey Requesting ‘Protection for Mr. Connell and His Family From This Reported Attempt to Intimidate a Witness’ After Tip from ‘Credible Source’
UPDATE: OH AG Reportedly Asked to Provide Immunity Protection…
Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not “‘take the fall’ for election fraud in Ohio,” according to a letter sent this morning to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, by Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck.The email, posted in full below, details threats against Mike Connell of the Republican firm New Media Communications, which describes itself on its website as “a powerhouse in the field of Republican website development and Internet services” and having “played a strategic role in helping the GOP expand its technological supremacy.”
Connell was described in a recent interview with the plaintiff’s attorneys in Ohio as a “high IQ Forrest Gump” for his appearance “at the scene of every [GOP] crime” from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the RNC email system to the installation of the currently-used Congressional computer network firewall.
Connell and his firm are currently employed by the John McCain campaign, as well as the RNC and other Republican and so-called “faith-based” organizations.
In a phone call this afternoon, Arnebeck could not publicly reveal specific details of the information that triggered his concern about the threats to Connell. The message to the IT man from Rove is said to have been sent via a go-between in Ohio. That information led Arnebeck to contact Mukasey after he found the reports to be credible and troubling.
“If there’s a credible threat, which I regard this to be,” he told The BRAD BLOG, “I have a professional duty to report it.”
Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not ‘Take the Fall’ for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney
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#23, Poison,
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6535031
Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that Obama’s staff acted without his knowledge in working a deal with Blago and the soon-to-be empty Senate seat? Anybody’s?
AFA the doubt, 47% of the country’s population should be enough.
should be swept onto the same garbage heap as Dumbya and his puppetmasters
He should be.
http://www.maplight.org/
Obama has accepted more money from special interests than most of the people in D.C. Who’s holding Obamessiah’s strings, Poison?
Change we can believe in!
I’ve seen more credible evidence that Clinton snuffed his commerce secretary Ron Brown to keep him from following through on his threat to reveal the illegal campaign fundraising from China unless they dropped the investigation into his son.
#32 – Liberty Loser
>>http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6535031
Uh, you said (and I quote): “I mean, the man isn’t even in office yet and is already about to be subpoenaed.” What you posted was a link stating that Blago’s defense team’s unfathomable request to subpoena some members of Obama’s STAFF (not Obama) had been rejected, so nobody connected with Obama is being subpoenaed. No one ever suggested that Obama be subpoenaed, nor did anyone ever suggest that he was involved in the Blago scandal in any way.
>>http://www.maplight.org/
You keep posting this link to the main page of the site, stating that it supports some whackadoodle theory or other of yours. If you want to state something like “Obama has accepted more money from special interests than most of the people in D.C.”, post a link to that effect.
#35, No one ever suggested that Obama be subpoenaed, nor did anyone ever suggest that he was involved in the Blago scandal in any way.
So the man is incompetent instead because he can’t control his own people. Grrrrrreat.
>>http://www.maplight.org/
You keep posting this link to the main page of the site, stating that it supports some whackadoodle theory or other of yours. If you want to state something like “Obama has accepted more money from special interests than most of the people in D.C.”, post a link to that effect.
Show me a link that Bush is a puppet. If you are going to throw around terms like “puppeteer” you should know that Obamessiah is controlled just as much.
#36 – Libery Loser
>>So the man is incompetent instead because he
>>can’t control his own people. Grrrrrreat.
Snooorrrrre. Give it up, Loser. Neither Obama nor his people have done anything remotely unethical. Leave it to the Obamaphobics to try to create something from nothing with an imaginary link between Blago and Obama.
There is none. Give it up. You lost.
>>Show me a link that Bush is a puppet.
We’re not talking about Bush here. We’re talking about Obama. And you posted a link that you claim “shows” Obama is excessively indebted to people with vested interests, when it shows no such thing.
And we’ve had 8 years of proof that Bush is a puppet. Can you seriously be questioning this incontrovertible fact??
#36–Libery==you are kidding right?
#37–Mustard==I find it “impossible” to believe that Obama and Emmanuel did not have first hand knowledge of the corruption of Blago. I didn’t know until last week that knowledge of a corrupt official “required” other politicians (if not others as well) to report such corruption.
Now, I don’t blame those Dem Party Leaders and Hopefuls for cratering their own political careers to turn the scum in, but there “ethics” are not pure===they are political.
All politicians are power seeking scum and do not deserve our trust. Obama is no different, just shinier wrapping. I still am hoping for the best, but lets not lose our rationality.
#39 – Bobo
>>All politicians are power seeking scum and do
>>not deserve our trust.
Well then. I guess you may as well just kill yourself, if that’s the way you feel. There’s really no hope, is there? No good can ever come from those who govern us. Even if we vote all the bastards out, those who replace the politicians will be, by definition, politicians.
#40–Mustard==you just enjoy “believing” don’t you? You believe in Religion. You believe in politics. You believe in condiments.
I believe in science: outcomes.
and yes, the majority of incumbents getting re-elected is the biggest support for the general corruption we have. I would think (not believe although that term might be used thru inexactitude) that a few rounds of voting every incumbent out of office might disconnect these scum from big money and reconnect them to the people. But I am an atheist in most things.
“Believers”/suckers/Silly Hoomans.
#41 – Bobo
>>Mustard==you just enjoy “believing”
>>>don’t you?
Of course, Bobo. Everyone does. It’s the inevitable product of eons of evolution. And when one finds something worth believing in, it’s very gratifying.
You, on the other hand, being the avante-garde, hip-and-happening, intellectual, slightly dangerous non-conformist international man of mystery that you purport to be, take great solace in your negativism. To paraphrase Dr. Evil, “we’re not so different Mr. Bobbolina, you and I”.
And your notion of voting in people who don’t know what they’re doing every 4 years (or 2 years or 6 years), while superficially attractive, is a recipe for disaster. Find a winning horse, and go with it.
#37, Poison,
>>So the man is incompetent instead because he
>>can’t control his own people. Grrrrrreat.
Snooorrrrre. Give it up, Loser. Neither Obama nor his people have done anything remotely unethical. Leave it to the Obamaphobics to try to create something from nothing with an imaginary link between Blago and Obama.
There is none. Give it up. You lost.
Farmer: “Mr. Fox, I want you to investigate rumors of foxes being in the henhouse.”
Fox: “Will do.”
Weeks later . . .
Fox: “I can honestly say that neither me nor any of my comrades have ever been in the henhouse nor do we wish to be in the henhouse.”
Farmer: “Good enough for me.”
>>Show me a link that Bush is a puppet.
We’re not talking about Bush here.
Ah, but you brought it up first by talking about his puppeteers. I just merely pointed to a resource showing the strings tied to Obamessiah.
We’re talking about Obama. And you posted a link that you claim “shows” Obama is excessively indebted to people with vested interests, when it shows no such thing.
Perhaps you should learn to read because anybody with a brain and forefinger can find the correct links to click on.
And we’ve had 8 years of proof that Bush is a puppet. Can you seriously be questioning this incontrovertible fact??
Ah! I see your fallacy. You assume because I am attacking Obamessiah, I am defending Bush.
Think outside the square, Poison.
#43 – Liberty Liar
Christ, I’ve never seen a more long-winded, bloviating, wind-baggy way to say “I was full of shit when I claimed that Obama was going to be subpoenaed.
Just admit it, you were bullshitting, and you got caught.
#44, NEVER!!!!! Bwahahahah.
How many times have you blamed shit on Bush when one of his cronies screwed up? Too numerous to count.
Now, Obamessiah’s guys screw up and he is clean as a whistle. You take the cake!
PaddyO I suggest you learn the difference between annual budget deficit and accumulated debt.
Mustard, the news stories to date tell us plenty about Obama and company’s knowledge of Blago, as bobbo has pointed out. If Blagojevich said that Obama isn’t willing to pay up for the Senate seat, how did he know that unless he asked?