Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.

[L. Coyote]

Googling the domain name, looking for facts about Email-Gate. This is a complex and entangled story that connects a lot of scandals. Some of the players are already in jail!!

======== RNC owns the domains ====

FACT: The RNC owns various domains, including georgewbush.com, the offical Bush Cheney 2004 campaign website, and gwb43.com.

Contact info for georgewbush.com:

Bush-Cheney 04, Inc.
PO Box 10648
Arlington, VA 22210
US 703 647 2700
[email protected]

======== georgewbush.com domain was used in the 2000 election and for the Florida recount =====

Here is an e-mail to an Enron account:

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: 13/11/2000 at 20:56

Emergency funds needed: https://secure.apk.net/gb/contribute.html

On Election Night, George W. Bush won the most votes in Florida.
Not surprisingly, Al Gore's campaign did not like the result. ...
... we need your help to defend the integrity of the Florida election.

CLICK BELOW TO MAKE A SECURE ONLINE CONTRIBUTION TO THE BUSH CHENEY
RECOUNT FUND NOW:

https://secure.apk.net/gb/contribute.html

PLEASE SEND THIS TO AS MANY CONCERNED AMERICANS AS YOU KNOW....
.....
End e-mail content. Source: http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/focus/41461#focus=/focus/41461&lightbox=/show_email/25306&

INFO on apk.net: Registrant = https://secure.apk.net/gb/contribute.html
Expedient Holdings USA, LLC.
The Crane Bld., Suite 300, 24th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: APK.NET
Created on: 17-MAY-94
Expires on: 18-MAY-09
Last Updated on: 18-MAY-04

========= Waxman acts to preserve evidence ====

The Washington Post March 27 article incorrectly attributed to Susan Ralston a warning that e-mail messages by lobbyist Jack Abramoff should not be put into the White House e-mail system "because it might actually limit what they can do to help us, especially since there could be lawsuits, etc." The author of the 2003 e-mail was Jennifer Farley, who was a deputy in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

GOP Groups Told to Keep Bush Officials' E-Mails
Democrat Cites Investigation of Firings
By R. Jeffrey Smith - Washington Post Staff Writer - Tuesday, March 27, 2007; Page A03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/AR2007032601979.html

A Democratic House committee chairman yesterday told the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign to retain copies of all e-mails sent or received by White House officials using e-mail accounts under their control....

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said his broadly written request was based on evidence that White House officials -- particularly aides to top political adviser Karl Rove -- have used their politically related e-mail accounts to hide the conduct of official business regarding the prosecutor firings and other matters being investigated by Congress....

"The e-mails of White House officials maintained on RNC e-mail accounts may be relevant to multiple congressional investigations," Waxman wrote to the group's chairman, Mike Duncan .....

DU Discussion of this issue at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2781758

This on Raw Story:

Waxman advises RNC not to destroy any e-mails
Michael Roston - Monday March 26, 2007
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Waxman_to_Republican_groups_Save_those_0326.html

Pointing to e-mails between Bush administration officials and convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff that used private e-mail addresses, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ordered the Republican National Committee and the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign to preserve all e-mail records and to ensure that they aren't purged or destroyed.

"White House officials have used nongovernmental e-mail accounts, including those maintained by the RNC, to conduct official White House business," Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote in letters delivered today, copies of which were sent to RAW STORY. "The Committee has questions about who has access to these e-mail records and how the RNC protects them from destruction and tampering."

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Waxman also noted that according to the terms of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, "Such e-mails written in the conduct of White House business would appear to be governmental records subject to preservation and eventual public disclosure."

...more....

====== Abramoff's aide becames Rove executive assistant, and then writes "to help us" ===

From http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/16977359.htm
and http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/03/27/crooksrus-2/

Waxman noted for example that J. Scott Jennings, the White House deputy director of political affairs, used a "gwb43.com" e-mail account last August to discuss the replacement of the U.S. attorney for Arkansas, Bud Cummins, according to e-mails released to Congress by the White House.

Barry Jackson, a deputy to Rove, in 2003 used a "georgewbush.com" e-mail account to consult with Neil G. Volz, then an aide to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, about nominating one of Abramoff's Indian tribe clients for a Medal of Freedom, according to a copy of an e-mail. Abramoff is now serving a prison sentence for bank fraud, and Volz plead guilty to conspiracy charges last year.

Susan B. Ralston, while she was executive assistant to Rove, similarly used "georgewbush.com" and "rnchq.org" e-mail accounts to confer in 2001 and 2003 with Abramoff, her former boss, about matters of interest to Abramoff's clients.

In a related e-mail, an Abramoff aide said Ralston had warned that "it is better to not put this stuff in writing in . . . email system because it might actually limit what they can do to help us, especially since there could be lawsuits, etc."

...much more....

======= Convicted felons used the e-mails =====

"Another official using the unofficial e-mail system for government business was Neil Volz, the former Chief of Staff to Rep. Bob Ney.
Both Volz and Ney were convicted of crimes related to their activities with Abramoff."
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Waxman_to_Republican_groups_Save_those_0326.html

===== "rnchq.org" also involved =====

That is the Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
202.863.8500 | [email protected]

... Waxman also pointed to e-mails his committee received last year in connection to convicted superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, which show White House aides sending and receiving work-related e-mails from domains like "georgewbush.com" and "rnchq.org". ....

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An RNC spokesman declined to comment, saying the organization had not yet had a chance to review the letter. The White House and former Bush-Cheney '04 campaign chairman Marc Racicot did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/white_house_aid.html

======= Did Fitzgerald know? ====

Friday, March 23, 2007
Joseph Cannon: The White House, vote theft, and the email trail
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/03/gwb43-white-house-vote-theft-and-email.html

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The White House has its own internal email system, ending in the .gov suffix, as mandated by the Presidential Records Act. As Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW) notes:

CREW has learned that to fulfill its statutory obligations under the PRA, the White House email system automatically copies all messages created by staff and sends them to the White House Office of Records Management for archiving. It appears that the White House deliberately bypassed the automatic archiving function of its own email system that was designed to ensure compliance with the PRA.

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A not-unrelated question: Did Patrick Fitzgerald know about this bypass when he subpoenaed White House emails pursuant to the Plamegate investigation? I doubt that he did. If he had, Scooter might not have been the only one brought to trial.

..much more...

====== GeorgeWBush.org received e-mails intended for .com ====

Replacement U.S. Attorney Accused of Vote Suppression
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/03/3797_replacement_us.html

Calling an anti-Bush website GeorgeWBush.org was a stroke of genius that continues to pay off.

Remember Timothy Griffin, who replaced H. E. Cummins when the latter was unceremoniously sacked for not playing hardball with the Bush administration? Well Tim accidentally sent emails meant for senior RNC staff about a vote suppression scam he was running to addresses @GeorgeWBush.org instead of @GeorgeWBush.com.

===== Timeline for the US Attorney firings =====

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9003390

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Enough to start a thread. Laughing Coyote.