Like most people outside the Beltway, I had never heard of Michael Connell. But I quickly discovered that his name was all over the web long before his plane crashed. On one site, he was openly referred to as Karl Rove’s ‘vote rigger’, who had created secret IT systems to […]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
It was a month since I had heard about the story, when my girlfriend sent me a link to a news story about Connell’s plane crash. The story of his fiery death in a Piper Saratoga, shortly before Christmas, 2008, not long after he had testified in a law suit […]
Cybergate: The Back Story(3)
It is snowing hard when I set off in late January 2009 on Rte. 585 to drive the thirty miles from Wooster to Bath, Ohio, to meet Heather Connell, the recently widowed wife of Michael Connell, a prodigiously gifted computer expert who had worked for Karl Rove and both George […]
Cybergate: The Back Story ( Post 2)
It was snowing hard when I set off in late January 2009 on Rte.585 to drive the thirty miles from Wooster to Bath, Ohio ...
Cybergate: The Back Story
The story is now available in print form in the US – link to the website coming soon.
Cybergate ( Maxim Title Page)
After a long, complicated birth, my investigative feature into the hacking of the Ohio 04 election – and with it the American Presidency – and the possible murder of Republican IT expert, Michael Connell, has just been published in the US in Maxim magazine. It took nearly a year to […]