{"id":193360,"date":"2008-12-20T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/tinfoil-hat-time-3\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:38:00","slug":"tinfoil-hat-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/tinfoil-hat-time-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinfoil Hat Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Connel was Karl Rove&#8217;s IT guy, and had been described as the GOP&#8217;s, &#8220;high IQ Forrest Gump&#8221; by lawyers investigating allegations of GOP vote manipulation for his presence at almost every instance of voting irregularities, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6765#more-6765\">he has been killed in a plane crash<\/a>.  He was the only one on the plane at the time of the crash. (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignsilo.firedoglake.com\/2008\/12\/20\/plane-crash-kills-rove-it-guy-testified-in-oh-voter-fraud-case-key-in-white-house-email-scandal\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>He was also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlargely.com\/2008\/12\/one-of-my-sources-died-in-a-plane-crash-last-night.html\">a source for the Managing Editor for investigative news at Raw Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before his death, his lawyers alleged that he and his family were threatened by Karl Rove.<\/p>\n<p>How utterly convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Connel was Karl Rove&#8217;s IT guy, and had been described as the GOP&#8217;s, &#8220;high IQ Forrest Gump&#8221; by lawyers investigating allegations of GOP vote manipulation for his presence at almost every instance of voting irregularities, and now he has been killed in a plane crash. He was the only one on the plane at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}