Thread by @soychicka

For those reading my proposal who disagree with my politics, please know that Dennis Hastert is the root of my disdain for the GOP.

Growing up a few houses down the road from him, the silent whispers of his inappropriate behaviour were omnipresent in this small town.

Silent whispers of a GOP that facilitated and enabled those inappropriate behaviours to persist, and covered up for his actions did too.
In 2005, I took a role in a campaign that ran against him to make sure those rumours finally came in to the light.

With the reports not only that he enabled Mark Foley, but kept him on as co-chair of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, it was clear that there was more than just partisan politics at play. Hastert was not the only one to know about Foley -

& Foley was not the only one to know about Hastert's history.

The GOP has been complicit in hiding sexual assault of children for decades.

And the GOP's decision to centralize the information architecture of the party under the control of a single technology vendor.
Smartech .

Smartech Corp, a subsidiary of Airnet Group., based in Chattanooga TN, was breached in late 2015, by Russian agents.

govtech.com/security/FBI-N…

Smartech was, at one time, home to the information architecture of the RNC, innumerable republican campaigns, even congressional committeesunder Dennis Hastert's leadership, including House Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways & Means, even House Intelligence Committee...

all the sensitive information handled by those committees were hosted by GovTech, a sibling of SmarTech, hosted in the same facility:

A basement of an old bank, in Chattanooga, TN. Security? Provided by....Chain link fencing. timesfreepress.com/news/business/…

What else was on these servers?
The RNC's website, email, GOP.com,
hosting for email and websites for campaigns, state parties.
Hosting and call centers for the 04' Bush campaign, the '08 McCain campaign.

politico.com/blogs/ben-smit…

And this is where it starts to get good, folks. Perk up your ears, and feast on this -

Remember: HRC wasn't the first to use an off-site email host... Karl Rove had one too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Whit…

And while HRC lost about 33,000 emails, that 22,000,000 missing emails, confidential information and all - seems a bit more significant.

And all at SmarTech.

What else did SmarTech have to offer a hostile agent who could gain access to their server farm?

It gets worse.

Back in 2004, there was an irregularity in the presidential election in the state of Ohio. In the middle of the night, election night, Ohio vote tallying servers started communicating with an external system.

harpers.org/archive/2012/1…

One guess where that external server was?
In the basement of an old bank in Chattanooga. At SmarTech.

Based on communications and system architecture, experts said it was possible these communications could have tampered with vote counts.

And that's where this starts to drop into conspiracy theory land:

as an OH lawyer moved towards filing RICO charges against purported Mastermind Karl Rove, a man named Mike Connell was purportedly threatened by Rove.

Mike Connell was the consultant in charge of designing the 'failover system' for the OH Sec of State...
Connell was also President of SmarTech/GovTech et al.

So, after Connell gave his deposition in the case, he was threatened. Letters requesting protection were sent to the AG.

Subsequently, there were two or three suspected attempts at sabotage on Connell's private plane.

The fourth time, he wasn't as lucky.
cbsnews.com/news/republica…

Out of respect to the family, I'll not get into details or speculation of what transpired. I'm truly sorry for your loss.
But conspiracy theories abound, and are bound to be mentioned in comments. That is the way of teh innerwebz. I'm sorry

Regardless, the truth about those server communications remains unknown, although some have shared that Connell had chosen to reveal his role in architecting the election fraud in his zeal to ensure the election of pro-life candidates.

The public may never know.

The public may never know.

But... any hostile agent who gained access to those servers would gain access to any evidence which remains therein.

Kompromatilicious.

One more item on the wish list of any agents hoping to interfere in US would undoubtedly be a copy of the voter rolls. Guess what?

Yup. RNC VoterVault, after its genesis in an outsourced Indian code sweatshop, came to live in the basement at SmarTech. pcworld.com/article/117930…

And while that code base was under development in Maharashtra, the company was hacked by RyDen - a Russian hacker.

And what did that database contain? Obviously, voter data. But what else?
latimes.com/la-op-hamburge…

And also, enough to make you easily stalkable, if you're a woman.

talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/rnc-…

That's the overview of the _types_ of information contained on SmarTech servers.

Tomorrow, specifics & the evidence.

But one last thing: Republicans, overnight, this is your chance to get out ahead of this.

Come clean. Admit to the breach, its extent.

There are many of us who know the rest, and we can't all be silenced.

Does your love of party really trump your love of country?

Are you willing to engage in mutually assured destruction of your fellow citizens, sacrificing all of us to maintain your fading grip?

For Trump? For Hastert?
For yourself?

For the 25% of the base that will support you even through evidence you cover up for those who commit acts of sexual violence against 9yo boys, 12yo girls?

For those predators among your ranks who threaten violence and legal action against their victims?

For those who use their positions of power to cover up for sexual predators among your ranks?

Because that 25% might be the side with the guns and the will to use them to defend your empire to the death.

But the other 75% of us - we're the side with the love for what this country was founded on.

Liberty. Equality. Ingenuity. Creativity

So if you remain silent, if you bow to those who hold things over your head or to that 25% ...

You are no longer serving your country, you are subverting all the good that our founding fathers fought for, died for, bled, cried for.

For this?
pbs.twimg.com/media/DFEWbmiV…

For this?
You're going to let yourselves be owned by THIS?

video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DF…

The truth will out.

You can control how it outs, or you may be forced to eat the truth quickly, at the hands of others.

Choose wisely.

And welcome home, Denny.

p.s. You can still fix this, or you can deny it. Strength or weakness. Nation or pride. Your choice.

P.P.S. NOTHING in this thread should be taken to support or refute any notion that votes were changed in the 2016 or 2012 elections.

ppps He's now been accused of assaulting a 9yo boy in a public restroom, & using his GOP connections to keep the boy from filing charges. kendallcountynow.com/2017/05/27/new…

^^^^^^^^

This was originally written in 2017, but made discontinuous by the actions of bad actors.

We know MUCH more now, but I've tried to preserve the original as much as possible.

In case you want to try to compare with the original... good luck :)

https://twitter.com/soychicka/status/887440337467301889

And, unfortunately, we now know, nearly 4 years later...

the vast majority of the GOP has not only done NOTHING to preserve our democracy, but they've actively worked to dissolve its very foundation.

There's so much more that they're trying to hide.
#theyAllFallDown

p.s. @washingtonpost @PostRoz @mateagold - if you want to actually cover this, I have 4 more years of research - 10K+ nodes, IP addies, etc., & I was told by someone working for a major broadcast network that this would be the Pulitzer of the... century?
I'd love to join forces.

p.p.s. If you thought this was bad, please see this thread on the literal reason the Pizzagate & Qanon narratives were crafted.

Yup, projection to protect predators & pedophiles.

More precisely, two specific predators: Jeffrey Epstein and Donnie Trump. twitter.com/i/moments/1026…

And, duh. The rest of the receipts? They're in here...

twitter.com/i/events/88775…

And there are more threads on the general predatory nature of Hastert, Trump, and the GOP in here.

twitter.com/i/events/91747…

Updated link to story, as it doesn't load from the link above:

shawlocal.com/2017/05/27/new…

And a safety link to the Wayback, in case it disappears again.

web.archive.org/web/2018022500…