News on voter fraud

Must be brief...

Olbermann's reaction to the Conyers letter to Blackwell is worth reading. And perhaps I came down too hard on Olbermann in past columns.

The Affidavit to end 'em all: You may recall Clint Curtis, the fellow in Florida who claims that he was asked by Republican Congressman Tom Feeney to come up with a vote-rigging program for a previous election. (I mentioned him a few days ago.) He now has written put his "affy-davy" to it (as Long John Silver mught have said). Brad Friedman, who does not buy into these claims easily, seems to think that this one looks genuine. Unfortunately, many people cannot get to his site right now -- the latest news has made it very busy, it seems.

The affidavit can be found here. Fascinating reading. Unless someone quickly unmasks Curtis as a fraud, this may become the key document in all future discussions of this issue.

Curtis, it seems is also a primary source for Wayne Madsen.

Some skeptics have asked: "If there's a conspiracy, why hasn't anyone stepped forward?" Well, that step may have been taken. Note the following (the writing is Brad Freidman's):

In one particularly chilling paragraph in the affidavit, Curtis explains what became of Raymond Lemme, the inspector at FDOT who was said to be pursing the allegations against YEI, Tom Feeney and the other reported matters:

"[I]n June of 2003, he told me that he had tracked the corruption 'all the way to the top' and that the story would break in the next few weeks and I would be satisfied with the results. A few weeks later, on July 1st, Mr. Lemme was found dead with his arm slashed in a hotel room in Valdosta, Georgia."

The death was ruled a suicide by the Valdosta Police. The BRAD BLOG has obtained and is currently reviewing many official documents related to Mr. Lemme's death.

Mr. Hai Lin Nee, "the ilegal alien" who had worked at YEI and was reported by Curtis, was arrested in March of 2004 on espionage charges which included "shipping radar guidance system chips for Hellfire Anti-Tank Missiles to a company in Communist China."

Curtis discussed in detail, during our interviews, Mr. Nee having placed "wiretapping modules" into software code created by the company. The secret "wiretapping modules", Curtis claims, were to download information from programs built by YEI for contractors, and then either copy or send that information via Email back to YEI. Such software, Curtis claims, was created for companies such as NASA with whom YEI held substantial contracts.

There's more. Hats off to Brad and Wayne Madsen for their remarkable work!

Yes, Madsen does connect (in a roundabout way) Curtis' former associates with Five Star Trust. I haven't the time to summarize, but I encourage you to red Madsen's latest. He also confirms that the $29 million dollar check was a fake -- a "bogus instrument" tied to Nigerian money scams. (The payer of the check was an entity long known to the Canadian police as linked to that notorious email fraud.)

Frankly, I am still not sure how, or if, this Five Star business connects with the story of Clint Curtis, who is the prize catch. Still, what Madsen has to say is worth noting:

A former Justice Department prosecutor who investigated the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) said that the bogus check and those responsible for it are typical "feints" used to mask actual clandestine money movements from law enforcement investigators. In addition, the former prosecutor said the purported check lacked the necessary SWIFT codes in the numbers found at the bottom of the check to facilitate the movement of money through international financial networks. He said that in his experience as a prosecutor, the name "Five Star Trust" came up in relation to the covert activities of the Nugan Hand Bank, a CIA-connected activity that was involved in covert activities in Australia and South East Asia.

I can add this: I have reason to believe that Rupert Murdoch received the "largesse" of the notorious Nugan Hand bank -- that, in fact, was how Rupert Murdoch got to be in the position he is in. Why else would a "bottom line" guy like Murdoch run a right-wing news operation at a massive loss for so many years?

The entire conservative/fundamentalist infrastructure was built on a "funny money" foundation.

No time for a spell check -- hope this reads okay...