Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part.
We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on.
There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories.
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You make a great number of valid points, all liked to documentation.
But there's way more to DCI than is obvious to the public. The operations they've been involved in are not rinky-dink. Google must've done some research to have chosen DCI, the array of companies that falls under DCI Group took home a substantial (but not double digit percentage) of the $900 million that Bush and the GOP spent in the 2004 campaign.
I think they're going to have some trouble from rank and file employees who contribute substantially on the "D" side given the sorts of issues you've portrayed.
From the research we've done it's become pretty clear that insiders to the Bush camp ain't clean and the DCI crew are all deep inside. By the way, did you know that DCI owns Techcentralstation.com, I didn't see that in your lead? Check out the disclaimer on their About Us page.
Great piece! I'm inline with the sentiment that our government shouldn't be sold to those who can buy access and that's what it's all about. The Roll Call article mentions the lobbyists in the same breath as they describe Google's PAC. Don't think lobbying and campaign finance are parts of the same machine;-)
Unfortunately, it's those holding seats in the House and Senate who'd be the ones to "Reform" the systematic corruption and I just don't think they're gonna screw themselves out of much bigger salaries they know are coming after their term in office by undertaking real reform. At best, it'll be incremental.
"Oh, I'll have to wait another 3 months to start on K Street."
In any case, you've pegged DCI. I hope Goggle backs away from the brink.
the campaign was discovered when Utah's Attorney General at the time, Mark Shurtleff, received letters "purportedly written by at least two dead people . . . imploring him to go easy on Microsoft Corp. for its conduct as a monopoly.
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Related storiesYou make a great number of valid points, all liked to documentation.
;-)
But there's way more to DCI than is obvious to the public. The operations they've been involved in are not rinky-dink. Google must've done some research to have chosen DCI, the array of companies that falls under DCI Group took home a substantial (but not double digit percentage) of the $900 million that Bush and the GOP spent in the 2004 campaign.
I think they're going to have some trouble from rank and file employees who contribute substantially on the "D" side given the sorts of issues you've portrayed.
From the research we've done it's become pretty clear that insiders to the Bush camp ain't clean and the DCI crew are all deep inside. By the way, did you know that DCI owns Techcentralstation.com, I didn't see that in your lead? Check out the disclaimer on their About Us page.
Great piece! I'm inline with the sentiment that our government shouldn't be sold to those who can buy access and that's what it's all about. The Roll Call article mentions the lobbyists in the same breath as they describe Google's PAC. Don't think lobbying and campaign finance are parts of the same machine
Unfortunately, it's those holding seats in the House and Senate who'd be the ones to "Reform" the systematic corruption and I just don't think they're gonna screw themselves out of much bigger salaries they know are coming after their term in office by undertaking real reform. At best, it'll be incremental.
"Oh, I'll have to wait another 3 months to start on K Street."
In any case, you've pegged DCI. I hope Goggle backs away from the brink.