Technicians reveal they were paid to rig the election!

[Julius Civitatus]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html

Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

November 25, 2004 — According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.

There have been media reports from around the country concerning the locking down of precincts while votes were being tallied. In one unprecedented action in Warren County, Ohio, election officials locked down the facility where votes were being counted. The officials said this was in response to a Level 10 high-threat terrorist warning being issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for Warren County. George Bush won 72 percent of the vote in Warren County, much larger than his percentage of victory statewide.

The money to rig the election in favor of Bush reportedly came from an entity called Five Star Trust, largely based in Houston but a worldwide entity that is directly tied to the Saudi Royal Family. Five Star Trust was termed "a well-protected vehicle" that has been used to support both Bush and Osama bin Laden in the US and around the world.

Other money used to fund the election rigging was from siphoned Enron money stored away in accounts in the Cook Islands, which was once the base of one of the more questionable and Saudi-linked BCCI subsidiaries. Cook Islands banks also handled some of the weapons smuggling financing of the Iran-Contra scandal. A former Justice Department attorney who helped prosecute the BCCI case said the use of the Cook Islands by the Bush reelection team indicates they wanted the bank arrangements to be a "quick folding tent" operation that would cease to exist when the election was over. He said the Cook Islands was notorious for not requiring any documentation for such operations.

In fact, the Cook Islands has been a favorite location for various covert intelligence activities. This most recent use of the islands is a continuation of a scandal discovered in New Zealand in the early '90s called the "Winebox Affair." In 1992, a computer dealer named Paul White bought some secondhand computers and floppy disks from the Citibank office in Auckland, New Zealand, that had earlier sold them to a scrap dealer.

White later discovered the floppies (and 10 paper files) detailed a scheme to use the European Pacific Bank in the Cook Islands to bilk foreign governments and banks for a phony 15 percent tax bill assessed on various transactions by the Cook Islands government (at the time run by Tom Davis, a former US Army and NASA research scientist who was allegedly on the payroll of the CIA). European Pacific reaped millions of illegal dollars from the New Zealand Treasury and a number of Japanese banks, including Mitsubishi Bank. Paul White later died in a suspicious auto accident. (...)

(more, much more in the full article)

[Stand and Fight]

1. This has already been posted...

See the following thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=78323&mesg_id=78323

[Amich]

2. what our election was rigged??? Sarcasm

wonder what the next spin on this one will be?

[Julius Civitatus]

3. It should be passed along to everybody

in the nation. This is outrageous, and comes from the same people now crying foul about the Ukrainian elections.

[oldhat]

4. This post violates the LBN forum rules.

Please delete.

[daleo]

5. This would be considered news if the claim were about the Ukraine election

But not in the U.S. apparently.

[farmboxer]

6. This Post Should Be Posted All Over The World, Over And Over

and over again! Something has to be done about the crooks who have taken over Amerika! I can't read it enough, makes me angry,very angry! If only Amerika could have a free press, a truly free press. Doubt if that will ever happen though. The mainstream media is owned by the huge corporations, 100% Republican! 1984 in the year 2004! So sad.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. This, on its face at least, does not pass my smell test

This quote, in particular, seems to smell more like fish than most of it ......

"The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program."

Am I to believe that after spending $29M they're gunna welch on a few bucks to a few "operatives" and risk them leaking ...... uh .... I don't think so.

Also, I cannot think for a moment that there would be this small army of government impersonators out there and they would trust that they had it sufficiently locked down that not one of them would be uncovered or found out and that none of them would talk ... or even let something slip? Kinda hard to imagine, particularly given the stakes, yanno?

[Moderator]

8. Source

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