I've spent an hour looking around, and here's what I find. Harry MacDougald is apparently a member of the Fulton Country Elections and Registrations Board.
Fulton County elections officials were accused of misplacing a number of memory cards in mostly Democratic Fulton County. Some of them were not recovered.
MacDougald in particular asked for assurances that Georgia's new touch-screen voting machines were reasonably tamper-proof.
There is a Harry MacDougald of Atlanta Georgia who appears to have gone to Episcopal High School of Alexandria, VA, Class of '76. The Harry MacDougald we know was born in 1958--Class of '76. Another Episcopal Class of '76 member is White House Counsel Stuart Bowen. MacDougald is unquestionably in contact with Bowen, because MacDougald is the Class of '76 contact representative and mentions that he has Bowen's bio and will email it to classmates.
The address of the Harry MacDougald of Episcopal High School matches the address of the Harry MacDougald who filed an SLF amicus brief against Bill Clinton.
Or rather Stuart Bowen was part of the White House Counsel's office. Then Bowen was Inspector General for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, where he took KBR to task for losing $18 million worth of government property. Prior to that, Bowen was one of the Bush campaign people who was active in Florida in 2000.
That's a very direct association with the Bush Administration, I think, but I frankly don't see what use it is.
The followin is a data dump of some of the more interesting stuff I found on the guy and people associated with him.
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http://www.wcsr.com/FSL5CS/Lawyers/lawyers1450.asp_______________
Board of Advisors
William J. Allen Elizabeth K. Dorminey W. Ray Persons
Robert R. Ambler, Jr. William S Duffey, Jr. E. Scott Smith
Byron Attridge Prof. L. Lynn Hogue Edward K. Smith
Hon. Bobby Baker Daniel MacDougald E. Ray Taylor, Jr.
Hon. David N. Baker Harry MacDougald Joe D. Whitley
Hon. Michael J. Bowers Matthew H. Patton Hon. William B. Hill, Jr.
George E.Butler, II Oscar N. Persons
http://www.fed-soc.org/Chapters/Atlanta/Atlanta.htm______________
News of the legal world
Word is Gov. Sonny Perdue is set to appoint Shawn LaGrua, a major player in the trials surrounding the murder of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, to the post of solicitor, which was left vacant when Gwen Keyes resigned to run for district attorney.
In another lawyerly development, according to the press release, C. Donald Johnson has been named interim director of the University of Georgia Law School's Dean Rusk Center.
Back in his legislative and congressional days, he was just plain Don Johnson.
Johnson, you'll recall, was an early victim of the Republican Revolution, serving just one House term and losing his seat in the '94 sweep. The former Joe Frank Harris floor leader went on to become chief textile negotiator for the Clinton administration, with the rank of ambassador.
That's the entre to the Rusk Center, which is dedicated to the study of international law.
Elsewhere, Frank Strickland, who was the Georgia Republican Party's lead attorney in the legislative redistricting case, is the newest member of the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections.
The board, appointed by the Fulton County Commission, currently consists of three Democrats -- Gloria Borders, Cynthia Williams and Wini Cox -- and two Republicans, Strickland and Harry MacDougald.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:nYUiJ0ZaEhkJ:www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/insider/0604a/061804.html+%22harry+macdougald%22&hl=en_____________________
GENERAL ISSUES AT THE POLLS
* Georgia officials forgot where they put their memory cards: Fulton County election officials said that memory cards from 67 electronic voting machines had been misplaced, so ballots cast on those machines were left out of previously announced vote totals. No hand count can shine any light on this; the entire state of Georgia went to touch-screen machines with no physical record of the vote. Fifty-six cards, containing 2,180 ballots, were located, but 11 memory cards still were missing Thursday evening. Bibb County and Glynn County each had one card missing after the initial vote count. When DeKalb County election officials went home early Wednesday morning, they were missing 10 cards.
http://pub103.ezboard.com/fsoldiervoicefrm16.showMessage?topicID=2.topic_______________________
Cox has found an unlikely ally in Common Cause Georgia. The government watchdog has issued a position paper backing touch-screen voting.
"No system is perfect," wrote Executive Director Bill Bozarth, "but we see nothing in the current Georgia implementation to warrant any consideration for going back to other voting systems. The level of collusion required to carry out vote stealing is so great as to render it extremely unlikely. The chance of a fraud occurring and subsequently going undetected is virtually zero."
Bozarth, who worked for IBM for 30 years, said he spoke with touch-screen opponents. "The people really adamant about this are people in the political extremes who believe there is a conspiracy afoot," he said.
In October, the Fulton County Elections Board sent Cox a letter that asked pointed questions about the security of Georgia's voting machines. The state's largest county uses 2,975 machines. Harry MacDougald, a Republican board member, wrote the letter after hearing about Rubin's report.
Cox wrote a six-page response explaining the procedures in place to ensure the machines cannot be manipulated.
The Fulton board replied Dec. 1, telling Cox she had alleviated members' concerns.
"I feel reasonably comfortable," MacDougald said recently. "There's always a theoretical possibility
. That can never be excluded, regardless of the voting technology. But the measures that were previously in place, with the new measures and technical fixes that are being made, bring the issue within a reasonable degree of security."
Cox often talks about the machines to churches, civic clubs and chambers of commerce while traveling the state.
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.asp?id=1218
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http://www.macedition.net/nmr/nmr_20021126.php
http://www.macedition.net/scripts/showmessage.php?articleid=1177&postid=2728&threadid=2728
Your riff on the Vichy Congress, and the large craters to be left by Administration's security policies suggest you pine for the halcyon days of yore when Comrade Clinton, a/k/a The Sink Emperor, was at the helm. As for Vichy Congresses, there were 2 democrat senators who publicly stated that Clinton's conduct warranted impeachment, and then, with all the martial vigor of a french cheese eating surrender monkey (but I repeat myself), voted to acquit. I speak of those paragons of senatorial courage, learning and non-viagra-induced rectitude, Robert "I'm saving the Constitution" Byrd, and Daniel Patrick Moyhnihan. Trent "Vacant" Lott, of Lott's Doctrine of Preemptive Capitulation, was only too happy to service all democrat demands at that time or any other. And, as for craters, there's one on Liberty Street in lower Manhattan that is the legacy of Clinton's feckless photo-op foreign policy, pursuant to which he (1) blew up a perfectly innocent aspirin factory in Khartoum in supposed retaliation for the East African bombings, because such a man of honor would never, ever stoop to wagging the dog while his plump and stained appliance waddled in and out of the grand jury, and (2) turned down the Sudan's offer of Osama on a platter, among many other psychotic eruptions during his presidency. The miserable wretch of a blade is a dullard indeed if he prefers the priapic perjurer as president to the current occupant, who actually puts duty above self, something Clinton cannot comprehend, much less accomplish himself. Double check those meds, dude!
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http://www.episcopalhighschool.org/ClassPages/1976.html
Perhaps the most interesting thing in our
Reunion package was a collection of bios
and reminiscences from various members of
the class. E-mail me for a copy—it’s worth
it. Find out what Hugh Haynsworth, Fred
Garth, John Bard, and Alex Liu, among
others, have been up to. Stuart Bowen
works in the White House Counsel’s office
on appointments (jobs, not scheduling), and
found time to come to the Reunion with his
wife and four—count ’em—four children
Robert Cunningham works in the EPA
Counsel’s office. The leviathan has some
good hands on the tiller.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:hitlluU5geMJ:www.episcopalhighschool.org/pdf/Fall01.classnotes.pdf++%22harry+macdougald%22+episcopal&hl=en
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Stuart Bowen
http://www.warstories.cc/person/?personId=7984
Prior to joining the White House staff, Stuart Bowen served as Associate Counsel to the President. Previously, Stuart served for six years on Governor George W. Bush's legal staff, first as an Assistant General Counsel and then as Deputy General Counsel. Stuart has held positions as an Assistant Attorney General of Texas, as a Briefing Attorney for the Texas Supreme Court, and as a Captain in the United States Air Force (Intelligence). He is a graduate of the University of the South and he received his J.D. from St. Mary's in San Antonio.
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http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-79421
Stuart Bowen: Coalition Provisional Authority Inspector General
The inspector general of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is described by the CPA's website as an "independent and objective oversight office" to monitor taxpayer money being spent on contracts. But instead of appointing someone with budget or contracting experience, the White House appointed Stuart Bowen, Jr., a Texas lawyer with longtime ties to President Bush. Before being appointed Inspector General, Bowen worked directly for the President for eight years -- most recently as a White House legal counselor, and before that in the Texas governor's office.
According to The Chicago Tribune, between his time at the White House and the CPA, Bowen lobbied for Iraq contracts for the consulting firm URS Group; his connections to the Bush team landed contracts worth up to $30 million. As inspector general, Bowen oversees many of the investigations into Halliburton's misuse of taxpayer money. Yet despite evidence that the company could be bilking taxpayers, he has been only mildly critical. In fact, one of his most public statements was a call for more taxpayer money to be spent in Iraq, not more control over that money: In April he issued a report discussing "the need for more funding to accomplish the reconstruction mission."
Over the years, Bowen has displayed a penchant for placing ideology and political loyalty above independent analysis. During his time in Texas, for instance, Bowen wrote a memo to Bush regarding the 1997 execution of David Wayne Spence, using what The Nation called "distortion, omissions, outright lies, and an inappropriate adversarial bent." Writing several months after the execution and using the same information Bowen used in his memo, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert concluded that Spence was "almost certainly innocent" and the case against him a "travesty." This behavior was more the rule than the exception for Bowen's office. As a 2000 study noted, one third of the 131 death penalty cases under Governor Bush involved lawyers who were later disbarred or otherwise sanctioned -- yet Bush and his legal team ignored this injustice and pushed forward with signing the highest number of death certificates in the country.
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http://www.nysscpa.org/home/2004/704/4week/article45.htm
Halliburton: $18M in U.S. Gear is Missing
NEW YORK -- A Halliburton subsidiary has lost about one-third of the items it was given to manage in Iraq, $18.6 million worth of government property that includes trucks, computers and office furniture, a government audit has found, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.
Government auditors could not account for 6,975 of 20,531 items on the ledgers of one of Halliburton's subsidiaries, Kellogg Brown Root, according to a report by Stuart Bowen, the auditor for the authority that oversees contractors in Iraq.
The report said the company "did not effectively manage government property." It projected that Kellogg Brown Root could not account for nearly 7,000 items from a total inventory valued at $61.1 million.
Halliburton, which has contracts in Iraq worth as much as $18.6 billion, is under investigation by the Justice Department for allegedly overcharging the military by $61 million for fuel purchases.
-- NYSSCPA.org News Staff
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http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/03/05/military/index1.html
Did Bush camp encourage military personnel to vote after Election Day? | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ed Fleming, a Republican attorney in Pensacola who represents Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., had been drafted by Unger to work on the project. In one of their conversations, Unger told Fleming of a rumor he'd heard that the Dems were going to go full-bore in challenging overseas military absentee ballots. On Thursday, Fleming asked a local county attorney if he'd heard anything about the rumor. Sure, the attorney told him. Got a memo right here about it, written by the Democrats. He faxed Fleming the memo. It was written by Mark Herron, outlining the Gore strategy.
Fleming passed news of the memo to Stuart Bowen, a Bush attorney from Austin who was supervising the absentee ballot effort in the Panhandle. On Friday morning, after making sure that Fleming obtained the memo legally, Bowen told him to fax the memo to Tallahassee ASAP.
At 11:42 a.m., the memo arrived in Unger's office. He showed it to Washington attorney David Aufhauser (nominated Wednesday to be general counsel for the Department of the Treasury). Within minutes, Bush campaign counsel Ben Ginsberg had it. Within seconds after that, Bush Florida recount general Jim Baker.
"This is gold," said spokeswoman Mindy Tucker, when it got around to her.
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Although nobody can seem to come up with the actual money, the amounts "lost" are clearly established, however invisible: $3 million in overcharges on an oil pipeline repair; $40,000 for team travel gambled away by a U.S. military sports coach; $29,000 to pay for an investigation of counterfeiting; $18 million in missing vehicles and generators by the largest logistics contractor in Iraq; $1 million worth of electric generators, 18 trucks or SUVs, and six laptop computers.
In all (for now), investigators can not find 52 of 164 randomly selected items from an inventory of 20,000 items---overseen by KBR, a subsidiary of, you guessed it, Halliburton.
http://www.etherzone.com/2004/moor080304.shtml
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http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=7041&fcategory_desc=Dick%20Cheney%20and%20Halliburton
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http://southeasternlegal.org/ClintonAmicusBrief110701.html
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