Excuse me, but is it normal for servers the WHouse/RNC uses to be registered to homes?

[originalpckelly]

Meet 705 Windy Way:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=705+WINDY+WAY+TN&layer=&sll=35.060651,-85.274463&sspn=0.007904,0.021629&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=35.139748,-85.348009&spn=0.003948,0.010815&t=h&iwloc=addr

I looked up the business records of the company, SMARTECH, that the "gwb43.com" address is registered to, and I found this for it's most recent records/address:

Business Type*: CORPORATION
Profit/Nonprofit: FOR PROFIT
Status*: ACTIVE
Date of Formation/Qualification: 02/20/2002
Domestic/Foreign: DOMESTIC
Place of Incorporation/Organization: HAMILTON
Duration: PERPETUAL
FYC(Fiscal Year Closing) Month: DECEMBER

Principal Office:
Address Line 1: 705 WINDY WAY
Address Line 2:
City: SIGNAL MOUNTAIN
State: TN
Zip: 37377
Other than USA:

Registered Agent:
Name: JERRE B MOSLEY
Address Line 1: 537 MARKET STREET
Address Line 2:
City: CHATTANOOGA
State: TN
Zip: 37402

The registered agent is the person/organization that actually registered the business. In this case I looked up "Jerre B. Mosley" and it turns out he's a lawyer, which makes sense in this case, I've seen that a number of times before and it's ordinary.

However, while SMARTECH once used industrial buildings to house it's business on both of it's prior records, the most recent update that I showed above is registered to a house in a residential neighborhood.

That just seems a little odd to me, doesn't that to you?

Here are the prior places of business just for comparison:
http://maps.google.com/?q=2003+Amnicola+Hwy,+Chattanooga,+TN+37406&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.371289,59.765625&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=35.060651,-85.274463&spn=0.007904,0.021629&t=h&om=1&iwloc=addr

And when it first opened here is where it was located:
http://maps.google.com/?q=633+Chestnut+St,+Chattanooga,+Tennessee+37402&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.371289,59.765625&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=35.050024,-85.31167&spn=0.007905,0.021629&t=h&om=1&iwloc=addr

I'm thinking there's some type of Duke Cunningham corruption going on here. That's not normal.

[Bitwit1234]

1. Wait a minute. Check Bradblog

I think SMARTECH is one of the companies that made the election machine used in the last elections. I am going to check it out and see.

[originalpckelly]

4. They have their own website...

and on it they have a different address for the physical business. What's been moved to the house is an office. Their CEO/Owner/whatever may have decided to work from home.

[originalpckelly]

2. I hope people pay attention to this...

it's pretty fucking weird. Are they money laundering by sending it through this company? This is like the stuff I read about in the Duke Cunningham indictment.

[Marie26]

3. Check out all the RNC contracts

SMARTECH got over $500,000 dollars in RNC contracts during the 2006 election - at least 50 contracts. The list goes on & on & on.

http://www.crp.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=SMARTECH+CORPORATION&Cmte=RPC&cycle=2006

[Fresh_Start]

5. should be pretty difficult to make executive privilegea

argument when they are using private networks.

[peacetalksforall]

12. THIS IS REALLY EXCITING! Executive Privilege vs RNC and/or

contractor (privateer) e-mail handling. Love it.

[CottonBear]

6. Holy cow! I grew up in that little town. It's a mountain suburb of Chattanooga. Damn.

Chattanaooga, Lookout Mountain and Signal Mountain are home to many extremely wealthy people many of whom are Republicans. They include former Reagan era cabinet officials, local and state politicians, heads of corporations, the independently wealthy, doctors and lawyers among others. I went to school with heiresses to some very large fortunes (Olan Mills photography, Krystal restaurants and North American Royalties Oil to name a few.)
My father, a surgeon, was a member of the Pachyderm club and the John Birch Society :scared:
Chattanooga is a very conservative and Republican city. It's no surprise that the Bush White House has contacts there.

[bullimiami]

7. i think it is illegal for wh communications to use private servers.

has to do with public records. they are hiding their emails of course.

[Hekate]

8. Do I hear a DU Blast coming up? Where would one this info?

Good research should be shared, she said sweetly.

Hekate

[AndyA]

9. Keith Olbermann. Nancy Pelosi. Harry Reid. John Conyers.

Just to name a few. No doubt all would be interested in knowing this data.

[originalpckelly]

10. You can get it all from public sources on the internet...

most states allow you to review the business records of a company, i.e. who registered it and who owns it. That sort of thing.

Just type "Tennessee business information" in Google and you'll find the search where you can find this stuff.

[hang a left]

21. I know that Josh Marshall has investigative reporters on this story.

Maybe a good idea to give him a lead also.

[drm604]

11. Smartech does a lot of business with rightwing and Repub organizations

but I don't think the use of a home address for incorporation purposes is necessarily indicative of anything nefarious. However, it is worth digging a little further.

If you look here:

http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?search=1&type=loc&addr=705+Windy+Way&zip=37377

you'll see that that address is the residence of Jeff Averbeck, the founder and president of Smarthech Corp.

That fundrace.org page shows him as being president of Airnet Group which seems like an above board organization. Smartech Corp. is apparently a division of Airnet Group, as shown on this FEC filing:

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00003418/239530/sb/22 (scroll down to "INKIND - PHONE COST").

All of this might be worth researching further but I think the real issue here is the use of outside email services, possibly to evade subpoenas. Smartech may may be a knowing participant in the deceipt or they simply be a legitimate (albeit rightwing) business whose services were misused.

[paparush]

15. Smartech did the web hosting for the 2004 RNC convention

Staff Photo by Leigh Shelle Hunt Jeff Averbeck is president and CEO of Smartech Corp., the Chattanooga-based company that is serving as Web host for the Republican National Convention in New York City

[WinkyDink]

22. Are they "real" companies, or just a coupla guys on their home computers?

Small-time hoods doing big-time favors.
Kind of like that pizzeria guy and his young wife in "The French Connection".

[starroute]

23. Check this out

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vets_for_Freedom:_Website

Stacy Cowley of IDG News Service reported October 10, 2004, that net surfers "outside the U.S." who were interested in President George W. Bush's re-election strategy weren't "able to learn about it from his campaign Web site. Visitors from a number of international locations reported hitting 'access denied' errors as they tried to reach the site ... Surfers in the U.S. reported no problems."

Cowley reported that the "U.K. analysis firm Netcraft Ltd. said the Bush site appear to be using network management technology from Akamai Technologies Inc. to restrict access. Netcraft monitors Web site response times from several locations, four in the U.S. and three outside."

Netcraft said that on October 21, 2004, GeorgeWBush.com "began using Akamai to manage site traffic" and an "Akamai spokeswoman declined to comment on the operations of GeorgeWBush.com and referred questions to the site's hosting company, Chattanooga, Tennessee-based SmarTech Corp."

[paparush]

13. Check out www.smartechcorp.net

They are a hosting and network services company in Chattanooga. Could be these guys

SmarTech Corp.
801 Broad Street, Suite 220
P.O. Box 11181
Chattanooga, TN 37401

Phone: [phone]
Toll Free: 866-664-7684
Fax: [phone]

General: [e-mail]
Sales: [e-mail]
Billing: [e-mail]
Support: [e-mail]

[paparush]

14. Here's the Whois info for Smartech.net

Registrant: Make this info private
The SmarTech Group, Inc.
10031 Winrock Rock
Cordova, TN 38016
US

Domain Name: SMARTECH.NET

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
Bouldin, Kevin
[e-mail]
10031 Winrock Road
Cordova, TN 38016
US
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Record expires on 25-Nov-2009
Record created on 26-Nov-1997
Database last updated on 10-Oct-2006

Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS

NS3.SMARTECH.NET 209.194.218.50
NS1.SMARTECH.NET 68.153.51.4

[loudsue]

16. If it's a rightwing company hosting the RNC's private e-mails from the White House

then they're probably going to scrub their computers, so the Dems can't get their hands on the evidence, now that it's public information.

Sometimes we're too good at being our own FBI, dontcha know?

:kick::kick::kick:

[drm604]

17. I'm not so sure that they'll do that.

I would guess that their lawyers would recommend cooperating and claiming ignorance about how the email system was being used - plausible deniability. Scrubbing their systems could lead to obstruction charges against the officers and/or employees.

[loudsue]

20. I don't know, drm. These are repervlikins we are talking about.

If Mark Foley was any clue, we could also count on it that some of the e-mails might contain LOTS of stuff the white house wouldn't want the public to know about.

:kick:

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. They would have to throw the computer and hard drives in the ocean after crushing them.

Any computer that's been scrubbed can be UN-scrubbed.:)

I don't think they'll toss the computers because there's too much info on them.

[ContraBass Black]

25. If they attempt a Russian Reformat, they'll prove their complicity.

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. Russian Reformat? What's that? You lost me.

:)

[ContraBass Black]

28. High multiple full disk overwrites and reformats.

To make recovery difficult beyond benefit.

[paparush]

29. Yes. If someone ever gets to analyze that disk and its completely zeroed out...

then that will REEK of cover up. Hard to get that across to joe camel six pack, but it will reek nonetheless.

[IndyOp]

18. Sure. It was registered to my home for while...

Until I got tired of getting all of the reichwing political cartoons with the crying Statue of Liberty in them...

[MagickMuffin]

19. How's about a 5th K&R

Well that IS interesting...

Funny I watched a sitcom this week that had people voting out of someone's garage.
When it was time to close the polls the lady use her remote control to close the door on the voters, and a kid had to Indiana Jones' it out of there...

Also in SD wasn't it well documented that election workers got to take home the voting machines?

Just more Republicon Corruption to STEAL ELECTIONS for their 30 REIGN.

But with their over reaching for POWER and GREED, I see the Downward Spiral of the Repub Party.:party:

[rateyes]

27. 705 Windy Way, Signal Mountain...

is the home address for Jeffery S. Averbeck, the President and CEO of Smartech. Check out the second link:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2RNFA_enUS214US214&q=705+Windy+Way+Signal+Mountain+Tennessee

What's interesting is that Bob Corker is the Senator from that area, and that his son and he together gave $15,000 to the RNC, and Averbeck gave $750.00 (Plus the server, I guess.)