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Michael Connell, an IT expert and longtime Bush family loyalist died December 19 when his single engine plane crashed less than three miles from the Akron, Ohio airport. An experienced pilot, he had abandoned at least two flights in the last two months over suspicious problems with his plane.

Connell set up the 2000 Bush/Cheney Presidential campaign website, and worked as chief IT consultant and operative for Karl Rove.  The non-profit group Velvet Revolution has been investigating Connell for the last two years and is demanding a full federal investigation into his death to determine if there was any foul play.  In the past they had received tips the lives of Connell and other GOP IT experts had been threatened.

VR’s attorney Cliff Arnebeck , emailed Attorney General Michael Mukasey on July 24, 2008 stating: “We have been confidentially informed by a source we believe to be credible that Karl Rove has threatened Michael Connell, a principal witness we have identified in our King-Lincoln case in federal court in Columbus, Ohio,….” No action was taken.

In 2004 Connell was hired by Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State to create a realtime computer program to count the state’s votes.  Under Connell’s guise, Ohio’s vote counts were transmitted to private computer servers owned by SmartTech, which were in the basement of a bank building in Chattanooga, TN.

At 12:20 am on election night 2004, initial reports all showed Kerry leading the race for Ohio’s 20 electoral votes.  The flow of information then began to mysteriously stop, until 2am, when the vote count went to Bush, and with it the Presidency.

On October 31 of this year Connell was subpoened in a federal lawsuit alledging election rigging under Rove.  The judge ordered him to testify under oath on November 3, the day before the election.    While he was fairly evasive, many close to the case believe he had a great deal more to say.

And now he can’t say anything.

Sources - PR Newswire -  Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation December 20, 2008

Ohio Free Press -  The suspicious, disturbing death of election rigger Michael Connell December 20, 2008.

Clearly this is a case being blow up into some silly conspiracy theory…I mean, the Bush Administration has always prided itself on transparency, accountability, restraint, good judgement, fair treatment for all…

Oh, wait.  Nevermind…

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