Well, I have un-stickied yesterdays "gwb43.com: Fri. 13th Edition" on account of it was not only getting exceedingly long but that, well, it isn't Friday the 13th any more.
So use this post as a depository for data droppings, either links to newer statements, comments from other blogs or news sites, or personal thoughts on Our Story So Far. This has been a shock'n'awe couple of days as far as volume of information coming out as this story starts to hit the national media. (Except for Fox, which rumor has it is not covering the story at all. Heh.)
We need to pull back and look at the larger picture. Remember Venn Diagrams from grade-school math? One way of analyzing problems is to see where they overlap. We've been concentrating on the circle which is the technical aspects of the "gwb43.com" matter: where these mails are stored, how they are used, who may have taken part in the project, etc. (Waves in the direction of Chattanooga in case our pal Jeffrey is reading.)
But the "missing emails" story is way more than, or at least overlaps with, quite a number of Other Republican Scandals. Looting at Interior Dept. and anywhere else Jack Abramoff left his slithering slime track, from Indian reservations to the Marianas Island to boat marinas in Florida. The US Attorney firing scandal which is the one getting the most attention now. Hell, anything Rove, Cheney and their various lapdogs have screwed up in the last 6+ years is connected to these missing emails.
How about the whole subject of electronic voting? Notice how fast that disappeared from conversation after the Dems "won" Congress? This was taken as proof that the system worked and was honest....why is that? What might there be in these RNC-owned communications channels about relations between the companies that own these machines, Republican officials around the country who had charge of selecting them, and the assorted campaigns to make sure they really are honest before they're used again? (Story out of Pennsylvania shows some folks are keeping up the valiant fight.)
Remember how the crookedness moved from Florida to Ohio when we weren't watching? Wonder if Karl ever wrote any emails to OH SecState Blackwell about the subject?
Gimme some other possibilities. I know, O Lord I know, how hard it is to keep up with Republican/Rovian scandals as one has piled on top of another over the years. But think of it as a memory exercise. Fight tyranny and fend off Alzheimers at the same time. What a deal!
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More than boat marinas
How 'bout murder?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
Jack's name associated with this. I only remember because it's close to home and I actually knew Gus.
Now I need a shower.
Heads up
I just wanted to put this out there. (Probably why Averbeck is staying so quiet.. more of the Rovian "you-were-all-wrong" haha things)
I haven't seen any real reliable headers from an email to or from gwb43. But at Cannonfire there is one person claiming a bounced email header (probably valid). This indicated that SMARTech is forwarding the emails for gwb43 to either AirNet's Qwest IP block in Washington DC.. Or my suspicion is the RNC MCI IP block which may be home to a rnc-bes (blackberry server?). There is also an AirNet Broadwing IP block which looks to be redundant path for same mail1.rnc.org stuff.
208.241.56.xx MCI ( ? ) RNC
65.114.142.xx Qwest (256 IPs) AirNet
216.142.110.xx Broadwing (32 IPs) AirNet
So physically, the RNC or AirNet/Smartech may managed the Rove emails in VA/DC. Odds are Smartech only has a few days worth of emails probably cached in TN in case the emails don't get forwarded properly.
[AirNet also has 32 IP addresses in MO.. which is for their email/security/hacker RNC client friend (Come on Jeff you know who I mean ;)]
Interesting thing about that AirNet outfit intranets.
They are evidently based in, wouldn'tcha know it, Chattanooga.....
I assume the Qwest is just the pipeline they use. It would be interesting to see a map of this "massive fiber net" that was, according to many, built in the Chatt. area awhile back. Interesting in the sense that it has to link TO someplace else unless the objective was just to have the town talking at very high speed and HD video capacity, to itself.
Atlanta would seem the logical place to go as far as closest metro with easiest geography to physically run lines, but ...
...oh hell, I'm just thinking out loud here. Physical connections are probably the least important part of this matter. Thanks for the tip(s) anyway; you and "b" are building out the part that's been interesting me for awhile now, the Blackberry leg of this tripod.
And trust me, the double-edged knife known as "Sleestak" is getting careful consideration in both its aspects. Who was it who said that the very very slickest way to lie was to tell the exact and honest truth...in such an unconvincing way that you are not believed. :)
based in??
Sorry, maybe it wasn't clear, AirNet Group is parent of SMARTech. (I just typo'd AirNut.. I think I'll keep it).. And by parent I mean the same people. (Maybe 9 or so.. I wonder what they are up to now..)
When they were ST3 they had tons of private fiber. I'm not sure who got that out of the bankruptcy..?? I had a picture of their OC3 pipes somewhere...
Not just ratfucking, but mindfucking
I bow in the direction of the brilliance coming from the Tennesse area:
I know just what you're talking about, because I've done it, a few careers ago, in an office politics context. It's a very rarefied pleasure indeed.
Although I'm not sure if mindfuck is the term of art. I don't think so.
NOTE Actually, the best way is not be be "unconvincing" but to make the other party so angry ("unhinged"...) that they can't believe anything you say.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi