White House-RNC Email Backed Up in Chattanooga?
March 1st, 2009Evidence 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.
Ethics rules prohibit political campaigning from the White House, but since that was Rove’s sole job as political adviser to President Bush, what was an operative to do if he wanted to insist that a U.S. attorney be fired for not towing the Bush administration line by prosecuting Democrats? Rove, who has now defied a Congressional subpoena three times — a criminal act unprecedented in American history — is known to have used that Blackberry paid for by the RNC to keep on top of all kinds of nefarious activities, including the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Jeff Averbeck, the majority owner of Smartech and Airnet, has denied backing up Rove’s e-mail that passed through his company’s servers, but no news organization, grand jury, special prosecutor or Congressional investigator has asked the right followup questions to get to the bottom of one of the most critical mysteries of the Bush years.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press managed to get a local interview with Averbeck in 2007 about the allegedly missing 5,000 e-mail messages, but what he said makes no technological sense.
He told the paper’s reporter that Smartech “does not have access to RNC e-mail records and simply routes the e-mails through its servers.” But anyone who has ever built Web sites and hosted Web sites with e-mail addresses attached to domain names knows that all e-mail messages are digitally backed up. Always. Otherwise, what would happen when the servers inevitably go down in the event of a power failure or other computer glitch?
Even CNN fell for the ruse of the missing e-mail, also reporting in April 2007 that “millions of White House e-mails may be missing,” although the source of that leak is never made clear. The entire story appears to have been a trial balloon to set up a fake cover story for the massive destruction of critical evidence, but we are not buying it.
The electronic evidence could not have simply disappeared. Even if someone tried to wipe the hard drives, there are back ups in other locations. Somebody knows where this e-mail evidence is hidden, but no one seems to be actively going after it, except for Velvet Revolution, which is in the process of preparing a new subpoena for Averbeck in a civil lawsuit filed over election theft in Ohio.
Determined to get to the bottom of this story by first getting into the compound in Chattanooga that is still GOP Web central, the corporate offices of the company that handled all the Web and Internet work for the Republican National Convention in 2007 and George W. Bush’s reelection campaign in 2004 as well as the e-mail traffic, I teamed up with videographer John Lee of PirateNews.org and headed over to 801 Broad Street.
When we got to the suite on the second floor that is listed as the company’s address on its Web site, we were greeted by a bank worker who said the company once occupied that space. Now you have to go into the building’s basement to find a high-tech doorway complete with security scanner. When you ring the buzzer, it takes a few minutes for someone to answer the door. We expected to be turned away, but amazingly we were allowed inside the compound.
We were led down two long hallways in the basement to a secret elevator deep inside the building, which took us up to the fifth floor. We were led down another long hallway lined with Republican law offices and finally into the offices of Smartech-Airnet. We got there just in time to witness a conference in progress by most of the high-powered Information Technology (IT) specialists in town, a group called the Chattanooga Technology Council.
We were greeted by a young man who identified himself only as Chris, who said he had only been with the company for a couple of weeks.
When we asked him if he could confirm our information from other sources that the company had backup copies of the e-mail, he said: “I cannot make any comments on that at all. I would live in fear of saying the wrong thing.”
Maybe there is a good reason for him to be careful with what he says. One of the top technology gurus tied to the Bush family, Mike Connell, died in a mysterious plane crash back during the Christmas holidays of 2008.
Here’s the 10 minute YouTube version of the video.
For the long version of the video, here’s the link:
Smartech/Airnet Emails in Chattanooga
Pirate News finds 5-million email hidden by Bush White House
More links after the jump…
Other Relevant Links
Obama’s DOJ Quietly Sought Dismissal of Missing E-Mail Lawsuit
Mother Jones: Full Coverage of the Missing White House Emails Story
Federal Judge Compels GOP IT Guru Mike Connell To Give Deposition in Ohio ‘04 Election Case
Video: Mike Connell Plane Crash
Tags: Karl Rove, White House-RNC Email Backed-Up in Chattanooga?
March 1st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
OK. So, where is a search warrant issued by any Federal judge? Get that stuff, get the files, guillotine Rove. I’ll volunteer my time, pickup, and gas, pay my own motel and food if some FBI guy wants help getting evidence of what I (legally) incorrectly call treason against the United States. I can be ready to leave in two hours. Deputize my fat ass.
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 am
Very impressive senor Wilson! I suspect you’re trying to scrape up enuff evidence to get the FBI to take a gander & get, or bigger fish?
Clearly if what is alluded to here is tangible then this will surpass any Civil War episodes in the area as far as notoriety is concerned.
The best of the best luck ever.
Get this guy.
William
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 am
Bush-Rove crimes must be exposed.
Speaking of Bush crimes:
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off of the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:50 am
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March 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Why don’t you press Congress and the new justice dept to follow up. That pondscum Rove was on This week with george stepanolis this Sunday spoting lies. The fact that networks invite him on as a guest is unconscionable. I want to see him indited looking out a jail cell.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Uh, I think I did, in the video, didn’t I?
Why don’t you call them and demand it?
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 am
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March 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
“Mail servers are backed up because otherwise what would happen if they went down?”
Ummmmmm, nope. A mail server will push incoming mail into an on-disk queue then repeatedly attempt to deliver that mail from the queue to recipient. Once successful delivery has occurred then the mail is deleted from the queue.
If it’s also acting as a pop3/imap4/webmail server for local mailboxes then delivery will be to those local mailboxes. It is then up to the user to decide whether to delete read mail or not.
Some servers will have daily backups of local inboxes (where people keep treasured mail). They will rarely attemp to backup the mail queue because it is in such a state of flux that you gain very little.
Of course, the mail server MAY have provision to make a local copy of mail passing through the queue. In recent years several jurisdictions have muttered about wanting their spooks to have the ability to see all mail passing through a server. Such a provision may have been turned on in this case for nefarious reasons. But if not then don’t expect a backup to give you anything. If anyone of importance has local mailboxes on the server then they may contain useful stuff.
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Everyone I’ve worked with for the past 15 years had backups. Often when the server goes down, all the saved e-mail is resent.
I ain’t buying it. Sorry…
March 4th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I thought the Sarbanes-Oxley law had required saving this stuff anyway?
March 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
No, the trick is that Rove used GovTech to come in, redo the email to Windows (from Lotus Notes) during the start of the Iraq War and Rove and key people were using this backdoor email gwb43.com which was off the official systems.
GovTech/SMARTech had all the email for RNC, Rove, gwb43, georgewbush.com, etc. routing through the TN servers then to more servers near DC. It is believed they also had an enterprise blackberry server out there also (probably run by GovTech or SMARTech).
So this whole system was setup to avoid any official laws or PRA. Also, there may have been some backups, but I’m sure they are long gone. You don’t need to backup mail stuff that long. What gets backed up longer is the end client mail program (like your own computer in the case of POP mail, or possibly some IMAP server). If they were pulling their mail from a SMARTech IMAP server then there might be backups of that, but again, it’s a private company, not a govt entity.
Rove should go to jail because there was probably classified information on his blackberry / gwb43.com mail. That is where no one is investigating.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
And now he has agreed to testify, thanks to the recent heat, if you know what I mean : )
Karl Rove, Miers to Agree to Testify in Prosecutor Firings
http://www.locustfork.net/
March 5th, 2009 at 10:51 am
It is so easy to recover email that has been deleted; I have done it! I needed to recover an email that cited the transaction number for a large charge that was credited back to my credit card. I had purchased a stove, that was never delivered, from an internet company that eventually shut down and ceased all communication and turned out to be a scam. The program that I used is e-Recovery for Outlook Express and it was under $30!
March 6th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Here’s what would be interesting…. if the illegal spying on Americans (capturing of American’s emails and phone calls) ends up being what causes the indictment of those who illegally spied on Americans, eh?
March 25th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I have been following the story. I’ll bet Rove has the backup of emails himself. The arrogance of these fascists. He probably reads them everyday.
Rove is in his 60s. By the time a case can be built and trial, he will be dead of natural causes or a plane crash.
Keep up the fight.
December 29th, 2009 at 11:47 am
The biggest problem I see here is that there are a lot of people talking about that which they know very little about. Paul Allen is partially correct and so are the rest of you. Considering the way data is stored on a hard drive there is a possibility that the back-up of whatever was there are still there even if they appear to have been deleted. However, if the servers are small enough and all they do is push the mail through to the servers where the inbox storage is actually located then there is a high probability that it is not there. Either way the addressing tables that index where the data is physically stored on the hard drive are written over on a regular basis when a person deletes and email. What the recovery programs do is locate the email based on the data write structure of the hard drive by logically (mathematically) figuring out where the email should be located and beginning there and searching in an expanding circle from there until it locates the data or determines that it has been overwritten.
What has to be done to resolve the issue is to get a forensic “ubergeek” like one of our best friends in there to determine if the information is actually still on the systems or not.
However, by now with all the hoopla over the possibility that the records exist it would be very easy to have just such a person make sure that they do not exist.
The only positive thing that I can see is that we are talking about the party that elected Ted Stevens and his “series of tubes” to congress so the number of “Ubergeeks” they have on staff are probably very slim. However, there are a lot of them that can be bought for the right amount of money and money is the one thing this group has far too much of, in my humble opinion.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Speaking of talking about something you know something about, did you just miss this recent story, still linked on the Locust Fork News page?
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found