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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Put on your tinfoil bonnet with the blue ribbons on it...
Posted by Jill | 4:18 PM
...and make what you will of this:
The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that the private plane of the GOP's highly-placed "IT guru" Mike Connell's went down in Lake Township, Ohio on Friday evening. Connell was killed in the crash and is reported to have been the only person on board. There are no reports of anyone on the ground being hurt, though his plane crashed in a residential neighborhood.


Connell is a familiar name to readers of The BRAD BLOG as a key witness in the King-Lincoln v. Blackwell lawsuit regarding fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio. That recently revived, long-standing lawsuit led to Connell's recent deposition on November 3, 2008, the day before this year's general election. According to plaintiff's lead attorney Cliff Arnebeck in July, a tipster had warned that Connell had been threatened by Karl Rove, as The BRAD BLOG reported at the time, in an attempt to intimidate him into "taking the fall" for Ohio election fraud not long after a motion was filed to lift the stay in that case.


Connell had been memorably described as a "high IQ Forrest Gump", by the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Ohio fraud case, for his apparent penchant at the scene of "every single crime" from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the network firewall on a number of key Congressional committees to the case of the missing White House emails. (Video and text transcript of the interview with the attorneys here.)


In late September, the federal judge in the Ohio case agreed to lift the stay, and in late October he compelled Connell to give a deposition to plaintiff attorneys on the Monday before the Tuesday general election.


Connell had been served with a subpoena to appear in the federal courtroom in Ohio at the same College Park, MD airport where his single engine plane reportedly took off from last night, on his final solo flight...



Oh, and it gets even better, as Larisa Alexandrovna notes. And this article from right after Election Day has some interesting stuff about Karl Rove changing his tune about the still-unresolved Minnesota Senate election after Connell's deposition.

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Blogger D. said...
Hmmmmm.

(Personally, I think they should double-check the body, but I've seen too many movies.)
12/20/08, 5:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Jill,
Are we seeing black helicopters now?

As a [currently inactive] pivate pilot and former airplane owner, I must say that there is far too little information in the article to make any conclusion. "Amateur" pilots, no matter how experienced, just shouldn't be flying high performance airplanes [think John Kennedy, Jr]. And the Saratoga he was flying is a very complex airplane.

There isn't any information about the weather at the time of landing, but it was dark and single engine, single pilot IFR [if he wasn't flying instruments he is far too stupuid for us to further consider this!] is frought with enough peril without adding conspiracy.

Besides, if someone wanted to sabotage a small plane, doing so such that it would crash on final approach over 2 hours later would seem to be very, very difficult -- and totally unnecessary. Had he had a heart attack, for example, or otherwise become "ill" while flying, it is unlikely that he would have made it all the way to landing. But again, if he really was determined to continue flight when feeling bad, he was simply an accident waiting to happen!!!
12/21/08, 9:40 AM  
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