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Brad Friedman (Brad Blog) has this!

BREAKING: Federal Judge Compels GOP IT Guru Mike Connell To Give Deposition in Ohio ‘04 Election Case

The Republican IT guru, recently described as a “high tech Forrest Gump” for his proclivity to be “at the scene” of so many troubling elections since 2000, and even at the heart of the “lost” White House email scandal, has been ordered by a federal judge to appear for an under-oath deposition next Monday in Ohio.

Link: Federal Judge Compels GOP IT Guru Mike Connell To Give Deposition in Ohio ‘04 Election Case

This is ***MAJOR***!

Some people have likened the status of the US (and its citizens) as having been dug into a deep hole by the G.W. Bush/D. Cheney administration. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have stated that there is very little real difference between Bush/Cheney and John McCain, perhaps McCain is even more hot-headed or eratic. Sen. John McCain was the president of “The New Citizenship Project” (why do they hide evil under good-sounding names?) which initiated the “Project for the New American Century” (PNAC), the Cheney and Co. that needed a “New Pearl Harbor” (911) to push through its agenda. TruthDig has a chilling reminder and look forward (Hell to Pay), including the high-stakes 2008 Presidential Election.

One thing that I had forgotten was Bush/Cheney/McCain’s “Total Information Awareness” plan, which makes me wonder whom do we really need protection from? I feel like McCain/Palin are a replacement set of Bush/Cheney thugs claiming to want to protect me all the while stirring up and advancing the very things that threaten my security.

Control of the Internet:
PNAC: “… divine [find] ways to control the new ‘international commons’ of … cyberspace.”

Bush: “Yet today our military is still organized more for Cold War threats than for the challenges of a new century—for industrial age operations, rather than for information age battles.”

Internet freedom has already been compromised by recent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. These changes fail to provide the necessary judicial oversight to prevent warrantless, mass spying on American citizens’ Internet activities and e-mail exchanges. Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program conducted between 2001 and 2007 appears to be a part of PNAC’s concept of controlling cyberspace. In the name of national defense, the National Security Agency has engaged in copying, parsing and downloading millions of American citizens’ computerized records into a central government database (so-called Total Information Awareness).

^What’s up with that??? Is this why McCain has repeatedly refused to participate in debates about the Internet and has refused to allow ANY part of his campaign to be seriously engaged/questioned?

Former Reagan adviser endorses Obama
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From CNN’s Adam Levy

(CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official - Colin Powell - in his decision.

“Well let’s put it this way - I think Colin Powell’s decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama.”

Powell served as national security advisor to Reagan during Duberstein’s tenure as chief of staff.

Duberstein spoke with Zakaria about his final days in the Reagan White House. The Reagan official, along with Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, also discussed the transition process to a new administration.

Watch the full discussion on the next administration this Sunday at 1 p.m. on Fareed Zakaria GPS.

How far will an already politicized Justice Department go to assist Republicans win on November 4?

As the 2008 presidential election heads into its final week, the current president threw a political wild card on table late Friday, when he asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate the status of 200,000 Ohio voters.

George W. Bush’s request, if honored, could be politically explosive. It would remind voters of the Department of Justice’s partisan abuses of power in the scandal surrounding the firing of seven U.S. attorneys in 2006 who did not deliver ‘voter fraud’ convictions.

Read more: Justice Department Pressed by Bush to Contest 200,000 Ohio Voters

In his own words. Frm. Sec of State Colin Powell