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 Exclusive: The Purported 'Anthrax Killer' Was a Registered Democrat The Party Affiliation of the Now-Deceased Bruce Ivins, as Confirmed by His Local County Board of Elections, Adds Yet Another Curious Question to the Increasingly Troubling Investigation into the Post-9/11 Terrorist Attacks on American Soil... Bruce E. Ivins, reportedly on the verge of being indicted for capital murder in the anthrax killings, was a registered Democrat, according to the Fredrick County, MD Board of Elections. He had been registered there since 1982 and records indicate that he voted in "every election since 1996," including Democratic primaries, according to the official who responded to a request from West Virginia-based radio host Bob Kincaid. The party affiliation of the bio-terror researcher who worked at U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) adds a notable twist to the ever increasing questions surrounding the bizarre case following Ivins' reported suicide last week... FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6245 Recent Related Coverage from The BRAD BLOG... Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6245  Washington Post Scrubs Own Story Questioning Case Against 'Anthrax Killer' After a Friday story from Washington Post raised series questions about the ability of Bruce Ivins to have carried out the anthrax attacks -- he reportedly "had no access to dry, powdered anthrax," according to experts quoted in their report -- the paper inexplicably spiked their article, without explanation or notice, and replaced it with a wholly different story. Yet, on Sunday, the paper revived the same troubling questions. What the hell is going on here? FULL COVERAGE, CACHED VERSION OF SPIKED STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6242 Related from Friday...  Media Fail to Report on 'Liberal' Targets of 'Anthrax Killer' Brother of Now Deceased Top Suspect Tells The BRAD BLOG 'Not One' Reporter Had Asked Him About His Brother's Political Leanings Until We Did The reported "Anthrax Killer's" brother, Thomas Ivins, tells The BRAD BLOG that despite a parade of reporters who'd contacted him today, following his brother's death, "not one" bothered to inquire about the political leanings of his brother, despite the clear targeting of perceived "liberals" with the deadly letters. A look at the (not) "Liberal Media's" coverage today, underscores their latest failure.... FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6237 Source: BRAD BLOG; OhioNewsBureau
 Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not 'Take the Fall' for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney 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' UPDATED: OH AG Reportedly Asked to Provide Immunity Protection... OH attorney Cliff Arnebeck sent an email to AG Mukasey today asking for protection of the GOP's "high IQ Forrest Gump", following reports of threats sent to Mike Connell and his wife if he was unwilling to "take the fall" for fraud in the Buckeye State's '04 election. The reports of a threat from Rove, said to have come from 'credible sources,' comes on the heels of Arnebeck's announcement last week that he's filed a motion to lift the stay on a long-standing 2004 federal election lawsuit based on the discovery of new information. Details and the complete email from Arnebeck to Mukasey are posted at the link below... FULL STORY, EMAIL TO MUKASKEY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214 Related, earlier this week: Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214  'Fixed' AZ Election Detailed in Letter to State AG Attorney for Successful Plaintiffs Summarizes Multiple Anomalies, Alleges 'Guilty' Officials Derailed Previous AG Investigation, Requests New Investigation, Count of Paper Ballots... ...Attorney Bill Risner's letter to Arzizona Attorney General Terry Goddard explains how the direction of the AG's previous investigation was, incredibly, set by the suspects themselves, members of the Pima County (Tucson) Elections Division. Those officials, Risner details, purposely turned the investigation away from the very evidence which could have proven their guilt in manipulating the results. Those very same officials are now named in a startling new affidavit (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6160 ) from a former county employee who recently came forward to allege he was told by a Pima County election official that they had "fixed" the 2006 election in Pima County... FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6198  GOP Tech Guru Mike Connell 'High IQ Forrest Gump...At Scene of Every Single Crime' Say Ohio Attorneys 'Whether He's Pulling the Gun or Not...He's the Guy Who Made the Gun,' Allege Buckeye Lawyers... Following last week's dramatic press conference (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189 ) in Ohio announcing the reopening of a long-standing 2004 Ohio Presidential Election lawsuit based on new information, the attorneys for the plaintiff sat down to discuss their concerns about Republican operative Mike Connell in an exclusive interview. The attorneys who hope to depose both him and Karl Rove, describe him in the interview as a "high IQ Forrest Gump," said to be "at the scene" of every GOP "crime" from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the Karl Rove/RNC email flap to creation of the current Congressional computer network and firewall… FULL STORY, COMPLETE INTERVIEW: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6206  My Votes, Four of Them, Were Flipped Yesterday Before My Very Eyes ES&S InkaVote Plus System Fails Miserably, Mars What Should Have Been a Simple Voting Experience During L.A. County's Very Low Turnout State Primary Election 4 Out of 12 Ballot Selections Printed Out Incorrectly, Myriad Other Laws Violated... As a fairly well-known Election Integrity journalist who has personally covered, for years, the myriad election woes of thousands, if not millions of voters around the country who have tried to bring seemingly endless stories of votes flipped on e-voting systems to the attention of officials, they always continue to be remarkable to me, if not many others in the rest of the mainstream media. It's even more troubling when one realizes that so little ever seems to be done in light of so many of these horror stories, as those very same failed systems are still deployed across the nation, with little or no modification to correct the mountains of documented problems, even as we head towards an election likely to be of historic proportions this November. What follows is yet another one of those stories, where a voter had vote selections flipped by the electronic voting system, such that candidates were chosen other than the ones intended to be selected by the voter, though no fault of his own. But this time, the voter is me... FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6043  Splitting the Florida and Michigan Babies; Unifying the Party PLUS: Wexler for Veep! I should say first off I don't have a dog in the hunt. I support neither Obama nor Clinton in this nomination race and couldn't tell you now whether I'd vote for either of them next November. I've stated long ago that both of those candidates have plenty of supporters, so I'll be supporting the voters this year, since they don't have nearly enough support. With that said, this morning's meeting in the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee (RBC) has been an interesting one to watch, and the DNC is to be congratulated for airing the laundry in public in a way that one could never imagine the RNC doing in light of a similar internecine battle. My overall take on the proceedings, for those with short attention spans: The party, and the supporters of both Obama and Clinton must agree to the Florida compromise which nets a 19 delegate advantage for Clinton while giving delegates at the convention a 50% vote. They must also agree to the Michigan state party's compromise of awarding the Michigan delegates 69/59 in Clinton's favor with a 50% vote at the convention. And while it's not necessarily germane to the decisions being made by the DNC RBC today, Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida should be made Barack Obama's Vice Presidential nominee. For the longer explanation of all of the above, please read on... FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6032  Recounting the Recount and Counting the Uncounted HBO's Retelling of the 2000 Florida Election Debacle on Sunday Raises Interesting Questions about 2008 Certain to be Ignored as Quickly as Possible by the American Corporate Mainstream Media... "The recount never really happened," notes Kevin Spacey, correctly, about the 2000 Florida election debacle in his interview Wednesday night on Countdown, in advance of Recount, HBO's theatrical retelling of the nightmare. The film premieres this Sunday. But for the third in our countdown of productions with the word "count" in its title, we turn to our friend Mary Mancini, who smartly blogs at the website of the documentary film Uncounted (we're in it, so see FULL DISCLOSURE at end of this article), pointing out that Olbermann, during his interview with Spacey (video, including clip from film at link below), joined so many other journalists who have taken the opportunity of the premiere of HBO's film to miss more than a few good journalistic opportunities... FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6011  Massive (And Wholly Predictable) ES&S Touch-screen Failures in Arkansas and West Virginia Who Could Have Forseen It?!...Apparently not Senators Feinstein and Bennett Who Have Announced New Federal Legislation Which Will Allow the Use of These Very Machines for Years... As God is my witness, there will be blood...okay, hopefully not blood...but massive Election Disasters this November. Disasters which might have, should have, could have, otherwise been averted had Election Officials bothered to actually read this blog every couple of days over the last four years, and done a damned thing about it other than make excuses for their horrible decisions and continuing state of denial. Keep in mind, we are going to save the most troubling aspect of this report for the very end, so those of you who can take no more of this garbage, will be able to bail out before hand. If you can take it, prepare to be amazed by the end, as we wend through the massive failures in Arkansas last Tuesday, through mind-blowing new (disastrous) federal "Electronic Voting Reform" legislation just announced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) with Sen. Bill Bennett (R-UT), before landing in West Virginia, where a candidate on last week's ballot assures us everything is just fine because the guy spotted by voters opening up the voting machines and going inside of them to make adjustments at the polls during Election Day was him. It's as bad as it sounds. Read on, if you feel strong enough, otherwise, abandon hope all ye who enter here... FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6012 ________________________________________ Related to the above, from yesterday... Source: BRAD BLOG, House Judiciary Committee
ALSO: DoJ Office of Professional Responsibility Opens Investigation into 'Selective Prosecution' of Siegelman 'and Others', According to Announcement from John Conyers Download the Documents: Full Subpoena, Atty Letters, Announcement from OPR... COMPLETE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, DOWNLOADABLE SUBPOENA, LAWYER LETTERS, ETC: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6008  Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6008  EXCLUSIVE: Voting Machine Company Chief Lied to Chicago Officials About Ownership, Control of Company Sequoia Voting Systems' CEO, Jack Blaine, Sends Deceptive Letter to Windy City Officials Following 'Evasive' and 'Troublesome' Testimony on his Company's Control by Smartmatic, a Chavez-tied E-Voting Firm Documents Reveal Officials Sought to Ensure Venezuelan Company's Divestiture of Sequoia Was 'Not a Sham Transaction Designed to Fool Regulators'; Recent Reporting by The BRAD BLOG Reveals That it Was... -- by Brad Friedman The CEO and President of one of America's largest voting machine companies, Sequoia Voting Systems, gave both deceptive, and carefully selective answers in his reply to a letter sent earlier this year from two high-ranking officials in Chicago, according to documents and other information revealed during an ongoing investigation by The BRAD BLOG. Sequoia's chief executive, Jack Blaine, repeated knowingly false answers, at least three different times, in his January 18 response to Chicago Alderman Edward M. Burke and the Chair of Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners Langdon D. Neal. The pair had written to the company on January 11, expressing concerns about the truth behind Sequoia's claims that they had completely divested from their purportedly "former" parent company, Smartmatic, the Venezuelan-run firm with direct ties to Hugo Chavez and his government. Following what they described as "evasive" and "troublesome" sworn testimony last year from Blaine, the officials wrote, "It is therefore important to confirm that the sale of Sequoia by Smartmatic is not a sham transaction designed to fool regulators and to further confirm that Smartmatic and the government of Venezuela have no ability to influence or control the new owners of Sequoia." A recent series of exclusive BRAD BLOG investigative reports, however, has revealed that the sale of Sequoia by Smartmatic, which succeeded in moving federal investigators from CFIUS to end their official review of the nexus between the two firms, was indeed, not what it was made out to be. Blaine's written responses to the Chicago officials -- and his curious failure to respond at all to one key question while offering answers, accurate or otherwise, to all the others --- suggest that the CEO and president of one of the nation's largest voting machine companies blatantly attempted to mislead the elected officials overseeing one of the firm's most lucrative contracts. And if you may think they were the only two officials from the Windy City that Blaine has recently been less than forthcoming with as he desperately tries to save his floundering company, then apparently you don't know Jack... BRAD BLOG'S FULL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6005 SEVERAL BIG VOTING RIGHTS VICTORIES ON FRIDAY!
'We the People' Win, as Thor Hearne's MO Voter Suppression Attempt Fails; von Spakovsky Withdraws FEC Nomination; TN to Require Paper Ballots; AZ Agrees to Follow Law, Perform Voter Registration at Public Facilities... In case you missed it, tremendous news for democracy lovers everywhere late yesterday, as the week ended up being a very good one for the voters, for a change! Here's a round up of four BIG VICTORIES for We The People this week, all of which will likely have a huge postive impact on the November elections!      FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5997  Brad Friedman Guest Hosting Peter B. Collins Show Live Tonight (Friday) @ 5pm PT (8pm ET) With Guests: Journalist Steven Rosenfeld, Conservative Icon Richard Viguerie I'll be jumping in for my friend Peter B. Collins to host the last hour of his syndicated radio show tonight at 5pm PT (8pm ET), as he'll be broadcasting from Missoula, Montana, but will be unable to do the final hour of the show, when I'm usually his weekly guest. So...as my guests this week, splitting the hour, we'll have...
We'll also have an on-the-ground update on the latest news from the MO Senate, on its final legislative day, as Republicans there try to push through a disenfranchising Photo ID/Voter-Suppression Constitutional amendment before the November election! I'll be BradCasting live from the studios of KTLK AM1150 in Los Angeles. Though they don't carry the PBC Show (but should!), I'm much obliged for their assist. If lucky, we'll be coming atcha out of Stephanie Miller's studio, and thus plan to leave behind the wonderful smell of democracy to greet her on Monday morning.  Listen live on air, or via the Internets (http://www.PeterBCollins.com ) and call in with your questions at 888-5-PeterB (888-573-8372)! Or post your questions at the link below, and I'll try to notice them while on air! URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5994 Related previously... |
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