Guest Blogged by Clint Curtis
INTRODUCTION {by Winter Patriot}: We are indeed most fortunate to welcome Clint Curtis, whose “incredible” story turns out to be just a little bit too credible after all. For those not familiar with the story, here’s a quick summary:
Vote-Rigging Sofware Fit For A Congressman
by Brad Friedman
In an affidavit and sworn testimony, Florida software programmer Clint Curtis told members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee that U.S. Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL) asked him to design a “vote-rigging software prototype”. This request, according to Curtis, took place in October 2000 during a meeting at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), a computer consulting firm in Oviedo, Florida.
Curtis, until then a life-long Republican, had been a programmer at YEI, which had several top-secret clearance contracts with the state, NASA and other government agencies. Curtis thought Feeney was worried that the Democrats might try to rig the election and wanted to know what to look out for. But Mrs. Yang later told him the program was needed to “rig the vote in South Florida”.
At the time of the alleged meeting, Feeney was the incoming Speaker of the Florida House, and a registered lobbyist and the general corporate counsel for YEI. He had been the running mate of Jeb Bush during his 1994 unsuccessful first bid for Florida Governor. In November 2000, Feeney gained national notoriety after declaring open defiance of the Florida Supreme Court by vowing to choose Presidential electors for George W. Bush regardless of whether a court-ordered recount showed that Gore won Florida. He eventually ascended to the U.S. Congress and today sits on the House Judiciary Committee. Although he was out-spent two to one by his Democratic opponent in 2002, Feeney beat him handily at the polls and then ran unopposed for the same seat in 2004.
Curtis claimed in his affidavit and to the Florida State Inspector General that YEI employed an illegal Chinese alien named Hai Lin “Henry” Nee, who inserted “wire-tapping modules” into sensitive database programs which YEI had built for NASA and other companies. Curtis also alleged that the brother of Mrs. Li-Woan Yang, the YEI CEO, had been a deported Chinese spy. Since the time of Curtis’ allegations, Hai Lin “Henry” Nee has been indicted, and pleaded guilty to charges of espionage related to attempting to send chips used in Hellfire anti-tank missile systems to China. The arrest followed a four year sting operation by the Homeland Security Office’s Immigration and Customs Export (ICE) bureau.
Although Nee admitted in his pleading to have sent such chips “ten to twenty times in the past year” to China, he was sentenced to just three years probation and a $100 fine! Federal investigators have confirmed that Nee was an illegal alien as of January 2000. Yet Federal officials refused to disclose information on Nee’s alien status to the Florida IG until after Nee’s prosecution had concluded in October of 2004.
Mrs. Yang and the attorneys for YEI (Tom Feeney’s former law-partner and current contributor, Michael O’Quinn) still insist that Nee never worked for them even though the Florida Inspector General’s report confirmed otherwise. Moreover, his weekly time cards show that Nee worked 40 to 60 hours a week at YEI on their contract with the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT).
The original Inspector General assigned to the case, Raymond Lemme, had contacted Curtis in mid-June of 2003, after both Curtis and the other whistleblower on the case had been fired without cause ? both on the same day. Curtis says in his sworn affidavit that Lemme had advised him in mid-June that he would be very happy about his upcoming report and he should keep his ears open for it because, he told Curtis, “this goes all the way to the top.”
Two weeks later, Lemme was found dead in a Valdosta, Georgia motel room.
The police report called the death a suicide, but this report contains many troubling inconsistencies and anomalies. The Valdosta police department re-opened the Lemme case in December 2004, but then re-closed it quickly after they received a phone call fom FDOT.
Tom Feeney has categorically denied all charges made by Curtis and has refused to comment on the record about any of the allegations beyond telling MSNBC that “Curtis has defamed a lot of people”. The bulk of Curtis’ claims have so far been proven truthful based on a multitude of hard evidence obtained from public documents, court records, newspaper accounts, emails and other materials from a long three year paper trail. On the other hand, statement after statement made by Feeney, YEI and their attorneys on this matter have turned out to be false.
After many months and many requests and many challenges Clint Curtis took a polygraph test on March 3rd, 2005, and passed! The lie-detector test, administered by Tim Robinson, retired chief polygraph operator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, found that Curtis was truthful in all of his responses!
The story and the investigation continue?
{Winter Patriot again}: You can find much more detail, including links to all the important stories, at this special page of The BRAD BLOG
Clint Curtis will be with us Sunday afternoon. Get your questions ready!
Another FRUIT LOOP
I don’t think I’ll be able to be online Sunday, so here are my questions:
1) When you went to Capitol Hill, who did you meet with, and what did they say?
2) Have you been contacted by the FBI or any other federal or state investigator since going public with your story?
3) Is there any type of lawsuit that can be filed that would cause the parties involved (Feeney, etc.) to be deposed?
Thank you for appearing here, and thank you for helping to expose these criminals.
Good questions, Alison!
Clint, I wonder if you could comment on the Florida press coverage you’ve received so far–do you think they’ve been fair, unfair or AWOL? Are there any FL journalists out there who are sympathetic and tracking your story further? The Toledo Blade has done a great job digging up dirt on the scumbags in that state–is there anyone in FL doing the same, or has Darth Jeb scared everyone into lockstep?
Thanks and hope you like the bumper stickers!
Clint,
How can someone have testimony, such as you do, and have it totally ignored by the MSM and politicians. Or, are there actually politicians who care about what you have to say? If so, who are they? Are they moreso Democrats? Are there any Republicans? Also, comment about the Green Party and David Cobb’s challenge in Ohio.
I can’t believe this is going nowhere, or is it going somewhere? I fault the MSM. That’s at the top of the pyramid of all our problems. If the MSM doesn’t shed light on important issues, it isn’t doing it’s job.
And, one final question: Have you ever heard or read the American Free Press? They have covered you in several issues. I find it to be the only American newspaper not controlled by corporate America. If you didn’t hear of it, please read it and let me know what you think of it.
Thanks, there’s lots of us out here who want answers to a lot of the important issues affecting U.S. citizens, like yours. Actually, one last comment from you, please, on if you think that someday soon there will be News on cable that is not connected to corporate America, and will cover stories on TV like the internet covers your story. The internet is now my prime source for news, along with the American Free Press.
After reading all of this, I think it’s safe to say Jeb Bush has scared most of Florida into lockstep.
http://www.newcriminologist.co....?id=1185989364
"According to DOT employees familiar with the Yang case, Lemme was aware that it was Jeb Bush who personally shut down his investigation of Yang. Lemme also leaked details concerning his investigation to the Daytona Beach News Journal. The investigator had previously requested a full audit of the Yang contract with the DOT, a request that was denied. Lemme also became aware of something else outside the framework of the DOT contract—that Yang had been involved in producing a prototype vote switching program for use with touch screen voting machines and that Tom Feeney was in on the scam. The last time Clint Curtis spoke to Lemme, he remembers the silver haired investigator excited about where his case was leading. Lemme told Curtis that the cover up of Yang was coming from "as high up as I could imagine" and that he had "proof" that was "shocking." "
"After Lemme’s death, Valdosta criminal activities and bribes paid to Florida politicians became the subject of a grand jury investigation run by the US Attorney for Northwest Florida Greg Miller. Miller’s investigation reportedly dovetailed with Lemme’s probe of money laundering involving FDOT and Florida turnpike receipts. The Chairman of the Florida Transportation Commission who has control of FDOT and the turnpike system is Earl Durden, a major GOP player in Florida who is close to both Jeb and George W. Bush. Durden was appointed to the Transportation Commission post by Jeb Bush. When Miller’s investigation of money laundering was leaked, it was George W. Bush who personally flew to Florida from Washington to close down the entire probe."
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fln/P...tribution3.htm
I’m thinking at the very least someone will need a federal prosecutor of Pat Fitzergald power in order to unweave this mess. The governor appears to have control over a corrupt FDLE also, which he used to arrest Buddy Dyer(who was a mayor) and also lock up a large number of people for accused voter "fraud".
Scott
One point I see about all of this,
The **Daytona Beach News Journal** looks like the Ohio equivalent of the Cleveland plain dealer, at least from what I have read.
http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thre...=1120581259656
Is there any corroborating story in the Daytona Beach Journal about the FDOT investigation, like the report alleges?
That seems to me a gaping hole which would show without doubt, what happened in that investigation in Florida. Someone should contact this newspaper and find out if they can put forth any evidence or highlights of the scandal.
Doug E.
Wow — great questions and links, guys. Thanks!
Hello to Clint Curtis and welcome! (Are you here yet?)
I became absorbed in the Lemme case for many months after I learned of it from your Fly on the Wall site, and still have a very strong interest in your experience and Lemme’s suspicious suicide.
Have you thought about contacting Harry Jacobs, Esq. about getting the investigation reopened?
Harry Jacobs *most likely* lost the race against Tom Feeney in 2002 due to a rigged election. Surely he has a vested interest in getting to the bottom of all this … don’t you think?
Decision 2000
SCOTT MARTELLE
11/26/2000
Los Angeles Times
Home Edition
Page A-18
Copyright 2000 / The Times Mirror Company
Two legal experts said Saturday that a Seminole County judge should withdraw from hearing a lawsuit challenging 17,000 absentee ballots key to deciding the presidential election in Florida.
At issue are revelations that a worker for Circuit Judge Debra Nelson’s election campaign this summer had entered voter identification numbers on absentee ballot applications that the campaign sent to individual voters.
Similar acts by two Republican activists lie at the heart of a lawsuit by Harry Jacobs, a Democrat and local personal injury lawyer, against Seminole County’s supervisor of elections, Sandy Goard.
Jacobs is asking that all 17,000 of the county’s absentee ballots be thrown out because Goard allowed the Republicans, working out of her office, to correct 4,700 Republican absentee ballot requests she had already rejected. The two Republicans spent 10 days filling in missing voter-identification numbers, and the ballot requests were then accepted.
**more**
Also see this link: Rigged Elections
I have some interesting inside information for you bloggers [and it’s amply ironic as well] … Clint Curtis, who came to our attention because he was a software developer, is going to be dictating rather than typing today because that’s going to be easier for him … and he’s going to be listening to the questions rather than reading them because … get this! … he’s not even going to be at a computer! That’s right, our favorite software developer is going to be blogging by phone this afternoon! What has the world come to?
With that in mind, two suggestions … [1] it might not be a good idea to post a lot of quotes and links … [2] we shouldn’t blame Clint if any of his words are misspelled!
Clint should be here in about an hour and a half. Leave good questions. You guys rock!
Please be advised that Clint is in Florida and d/t to the hurricane, is off-line. All responses from him are by cellphone. We (Steve and Jan) are both reading your questions to him and transcribing his answers. It may be a bit slow so be patient. We will get to as many questions as possible and maybe Clint will even come back at times in the next few days to answer any questions we can’t get to.
Question #1-
I met with Ted Kalo, several other staffers, incl. staff of J. Conyers, Bill Nelson, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer and about 17 others. They said they would check it out and consider it. Talked to Nelson about espionage at NASA and he said he would investigate it. This is par for the course. Haven’t heard back from any of them, but I’m a nobody and they don’t owe me any explanation or report.
I have been contacted By FBI in Talahassee and met with them and told story. One of 2 investigators seemed interested but the other didn’t. Considering that this was in Florida, with Jeb et al., I don’t expect much to come of it.
I have filled lawsuits. There is a cuitam pending (based on overcharge at FDOT and having illegal alien/spy working on NASA contracts). They will eventually have to come to a deposition and be deposed but they have been able to stall for about 3 yrs so far. There is nothing I can sue about regarding the voter fraud issue.
I open to any lawyers out there who have any ideas or want to contact me.
Last post was dictated by Clint but went out with my name. Steve
Comment #3:
We had some interest with 60 minutes prior to the Dan Rather fiasco. The media is pretty intimidated. The best thing is to have people continue to send letters to the editor. There have been a few of them submitted. The best coverage has been these letters to the editors. As far as Florida coverage, they are also too intimidated by the powers that be – Jeb Bush, Feeney, and Yang.
Steve & Jan – Y’all ROCK! Thanks for helping bring us Clint’s comments.
Clint — thank you so much for making the extra effort to be with us today. I’ll speak for everyone in saying that we hope you are in a safe place during the storm and hope the damage is minimal to Florida.
(cuitam should be spelled Qui Tam)
Comment #4:
Please see my previous answers. The Republicans spent a lot of time stacking the deck with voting machines and media and intimidating the little guy. They are not going to give up their advantage. It’s easier to ignore things.
I’m so sorry for the loss of your dog, it’s horrible.
Have you or your family been threatened at all?
Contine Comment #4:
A few Democrats are trying to help. Zero Republicans that have been trying to help. As far as David Cobb & Green Party, at least he showed up in Ohio when Kerry didn’t. I haven’t read the American Free Press, but thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out. I can only hope that there will be some kind of cable coverage of the important stories in the near future. I have no inside information.
Comment #5:
I don’t think that we’re going to get a federal probe. And that"s probably not the way we are going to beat these people anyway. What we need to do is take away their money and do that by boycotting the products of these people. If we can drop revenue by 10%, we can bankrupt the Bush machine. These aren’t Hallibuton and things we can’t touch, they are common everyday products like Coco-Cola , Winston Cigarettes (hey Brad), Amway, Listerine, Benedryl, Aflac Insurance. We need to let them know we are going to do and do. When they stop losing revenue, they will stop supporting Bush and his Democracy-crushing machine. I can only substantiate the investigation up to the Lemme. I don’t know anything about the other grand jury investigations that Scott speaks of.
Comment #6:
All you have to do to substantiate is go to website of Daytona Beach News Journal and search archives for Feeney/Yang or Whistleblower. That will get all records of their investigation
Comment #15
I was threatened when I refused Yang’s bribes and wouldn’t leave Florida. I was told that Ralph, President of Yang, was a former Vietnam sniper. I got the message. When I began writing the book , I got a warning email from a "friend/employee" at Yang who said, "don’t be alone, they’re out to get you." It’s all on Bradblog.
What happened to my question #7 about contacting Harry Jacobs, Esq. ???
Comment #7 continued:
Harry Jacobs is just a civil attorney. Don’t know what he could do. Other efforts like Bradblogs that got case in Valdosta reopened were quickly closed by powers that be. If we can get legitimate government involvement there is no statute of limitations on murder.
Gosh, Clint, #19 — you be careful. Stay in the limelight as much as possible.
I guess my thinking about Jacobs is that he was very active in the political scene — surely he has contacts.
Comment #22-
That’s why I’m here on the BradBlog basking in the limelight!
Also re:#21 — How do we get some legitimate gov’t involvement and where would we start to get the help in reopening the case? I want it reopened. We tore up the blog for a couple of months and a lot of interesting headway was made which convinced us that Lemme most likely did NOT commit suicide.
I agree with Kira. Wasn’t Harry Jacobs the same lawyer who filed suit in Seminole County against the 2000 balloting on behalf of Gore? He must know someone who could help.
Emma
Yes Emma. He was very active in politics and actively involved in Voting issues.
Kira and all- Clint went to take a brief break since we had answered all questions. He will be back in a few minutes. Misspellings are ours, not his, including Qui Tam
I noticed with John Amato yesterday that questions slowed down in the late afternoon. Maybe that’s the case even for the famous Clint Curtis! Only so much live blogging one person can handle?
It’s ok, Steve — I just clarified in case any readers wanted to look it up. Not a problem. (Please don’t make a list of MY typos!!)
Hey — we’re tough on these guys. Inquiring Minds Want To Know!!!
I noticed with John Amato yesterday that questions slowed down in the late afternoon. Maybe that’s the case even for the famous Clint Curtis! Only so much live blogging one person can handle? I see some new questions so I’ll call Clint back.
Comments #23, 25, & 26:
Kira and Emma,
I’ll contact Harry Jacobs and see if he responds. I’ll tell him Kira and Emma from the Bradblog sent me. We get legitimate help by forcing them to give us back our vote. We do that by taking the money away as per my previous answer. They like power, but they love money.
Geogia is a pretty lockdown state. Maybe if enough people contacted their congresspeople. There is a female Congresswoman who is a Democrat who might be willing to help.
I thought Lemme was murdered from the beginning, and when I first heard about it I contacted my sheriff contact in Leon County and asked him to investigate, but they didn’t have any jurisdiction. This sheriff is the same guy who pressed the Henry Lee issue and helped get him arrested in Orlando.
Clint, I’m in Georgia. Which congresswoman? Cynthia McKinny?
Maybe 6 or 7 of us could make it a group effort with Clint Curtis leading the way ???
Comment #34:
Yes, it was Cynthia McKinny. We met her in Nashville during the National Election Reform meetings. She seemed very responsive to our efforts and the issues to assure voting verification.
Thanks, but don’t put me in the lead. But Brad in the lead.
No more questions posted so I’ll make a comment. I wish I could post everything Clint says. This guy is really funny, a real dry wit! He’s occasionally edited himself when we started to input his humorous tags and punchlines
Ok — Brad takes the lead naturally. Yes – Georgia is in a mess right now. We’re working on helping people wake up from their dream so they can see the nightmare in their backyards.
Keep posting questions!!!!! You don’t get Clint Curtis everyday! Where is the frozen one?
Well — Clint will just have to hang around and realize how much we all like wit & humor around here! I hope he won’t be a stranger to Bradblog after this current event!
Gave Clint a break. Since it appears to be me and Kira here, I’ll tell her that Clint added after his comment that we should let Brad take the lead that "then, when he gets shot we can use him as a shield". Obviously, he was kidding and retracted that. Since he’s not on-line, guess he won’t know I ratted on him.
Aaaacckk!!!!! I’m ROTFLMAO!!!! I see what you mean! Oh really funny – we all know he’s joking – right???
Oh things are so serious, we really need the laughs, but we really don’t want Brad to be a human shield – or anybody for that matter … on our side, at least 😀
Hi Clint!
You’re wonderful! Are you single? 🙂
Seriously, we’ve met several times now, in Columbus and Nashville! I appreciate your work and am glad that Brad helped you get your story out! Rep. McKinney was so supportive in Nashville and also has a great story on the shameful GOP crossover in the 2002 election that helped defeat her!
Any chance you’ll consider running for political office? I’m supporting a Fitrakis-Friedman ticket right now for Prez/VP, but…
Well, the winds and rain from Dennis the Menace have started arriving here in GA and power has flickered a few times.
I’m really grateful to Clint Curtis, one of our True American Patriots, for speaking up for truth, honor and integrity. Thank you so much, Clint, & keep the faith.
Hi again — sorry I had to be away — guests for dinner and all that! … I wanted to say "THANKS" to Clint, not only for joining us here but also — especially — for sticking to his guns — and his story — at a time and in a context where it would have been really easy to "just forget about it!" … Thanks, Clint! wherever you are … and best wishes!
Kat-
Do you have $30 million dollars for my run?
Let’s chat Clint! Steve has my number! 🙂
Kira- Thanks for all your comments and compliments.
Clint "sticking to his guns". No comment 🙂
Just dropped in ever momentarily to say Hey to Clint, knowing that he’s put up with much more than hurricanes! (Though keep your powder dry, Clint).
One of the best gifts I can probably receive from the Blogathon is a day or two OFF, so I am taking what advantage I can of that as you guys drive!
Have fun! And thank you, Clint for helping out here!
(no need to reply…I’m gonna try not to sit at the computer at all for at least a few more hours! 🙂
Winter Patriot-
It’s people like you who are really making the difference. Your blogging and the efforts of the people on blogs like this are really the frontlines in the fight. I appreciate your asking me to come here if it was any help to your cause.
Hello Clint
This is Harriet Lerman and I do a radio show called, Voice of the People , here in Palm Beach County on WPBR1340 AM and we have had on my show Clint several times and will have him on again soon.
We have had nothing but election fruad since 2000 elections in Palm Beach County. No one wants to talk about it. They say lets move on nothing you can do about it.
We hope with the help of Clint that this will stop. With the Republicans in power we must get them out of power and put a stop to this corruption.
I hope that all of you will help us and get this information out the best way you can. That is the voice of the people..
Thank you Clint for all that you are doing..
Harriet Lerman
I do agree with Kira — Clint is a True American Patriot. His revelations will certainly help us as we consider solutions to wrestle back control over our elections from private partisan electronic voting companies. IT’s been a rather cordial takeover, with these companies wining and dining our county and state elections officials who for the most part refuse to believe its at our expense (the voters).
I think time is up here; sorry to have come in so late. Steve, thanks for facilitating all this!
PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES TO ANYONE WHO DRIFTED AWAY WHEN CLINT SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR. WE LOST OUR PHONE CONNECTION BRIEFLY (IT WAS CELL TO CELL) AND I COULDN’T INITIALLY GET HIM BACK. IN THE MEANTIME I GOT A CALL FROM BRAD, WHO I DON’T GET CALLS FROM EVERYDAY (LIKE, NEVER BEFORE, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE EXCHANGED NUMEROUS E-MAILS) AND AFTER WE TALKED FOR A FEW MINUTES AND I GOT AHOLD OF CLINT AGAIN, I THINK MOST OF YOU HAD DRIFTED AWAY. SORRY, IT WAS A GUEST BLOG UNDER LESS THAN OPTIMAL CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT CLINT IS SUCH A NICE GUY THAT HE SAID HE WOULD COME BACK ANYTIME AND I’M SURE IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS HERE HE WOULD BE WILLING TO ANSWER THEM IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. IF WE HAVE HIM BACK, WE SHOULD POST HIS AVAILABILITY ON DU AND ALSO NOTIFY BLACKBOXVOTING AND RAW STORY TO HELP GET HIM THE AUDIENCE HE DESERVES.
Clint re #49 Thank you very much for your very kind words.
Steve re #52 I suppose we can cut you some slack!
Thanks to everyone who took part in this amazing thread and I do hope we will get another chance to do something similar.
Clint, I would appreciate you clearing up a bit of confusion regarding when you took a lie detector test.
According to this link to a summary at Bradblog, you took the lie detector test on March 3rd, and passed.
https://bradblog.com/ClintCurtisSummary.htm
But according to your Blogcall 2 radio broadcast with Brad on March 8th, you had not yet taken a lie detector test – you said something like you hoped to do it by the end of the month.
It is my belief that the radio show on March 8th was taped prior to March 3rd, so therefore you would not have taken the test yet.
Is this true? Was the Blogcall 2 broadcast from March 8th taped prior to March 3rd when you took the test?
I would appreciate you clearing this up. A poster who goes by various names such as AnonymousArmy, Steve, MrNiceGuyDied, etc., and who has been doing a lot of bad things lately on the internets, posted a diary at DailyKos many weeks ago, claiming you and Brad were up to no good – and he used this confusion about the test as his main point. No one countered.
Thanks Clint!
John Dean
Well I guess I was late to the party…I’ll take this to email.
John
Clint-
That’s terrible news that they wouldn’t take the case. I would think someone in Florida would be able to have jurisdiction, but I guess its a foregone conclusion there.
I hope that at some point you can simply call in a federal prosecutor, someone like Fitzergald would be able to get to the bottom of this in a heartbeat.
Thanks for answering my questions,
Scott
Hi Clint, my questions are about the Lemme matter.
There was rumor some time back that a private investigator from the DC area was investigating the Lemme situation. Do you know if that is true and if so, do you have any of the details of the status of that investigation? If not, do you think it would be somehow possible/fruitful to have a private investigator involved?
Hey Miss Persistent — I missed having you here while Clint was online. Darn. I miss working in the eerie, dank, forensic basement thread.
John Dean — why don’t you contact Tim Robinson, the retired chief polygraph operator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who administered the polygraph test? There would be the "horse’s mouth," so to speak.
Kira, no need. Received replies from both Clint and Brad, and now understand what happened – basically, the news about Clint’s test was kept quiet until the St. Pete’s article broke, so that the author of the article could be the one who broke the story.
A very reasonable explanation IMO. Case closed.
John
Great. I love it when mysteries are solved!
That same guy "anonymousarmy" et al, is the rotten cretin behind the dispicable site Scamdy.com and a dKos diary of his creation that was so harmful to Andy Stephenson. I hope he gets his just desserts.
Hi Kira, me too – sorry I missed Clint! Summer has been so busy! Did you see the post down in the morgue by Lemme’s half-brother?
Thanks Clint for your kind visit to this site. Hope I haven’t missed you. My question: Surely Lemme, knowing the danger he was in, confided his discoveries to somebody! Any ideas? Agree we need a private investigator.
Clint answered additional questions posted through 7/11/05 when I talked to him yesterday (to get his selection of "Puppy Naming Contest" winners). Since I am late in posting them, I won’t post them under his name, even though he said I could. Clint’s responses were as follows:
John Dean #54: "You know the answer based on our e-mail exchange. I’ll just clarify that the reporter (Lucy Morgan) for the St. Petersburg Times was promised the exclusive in order to get her to write an article about the whole Wang/Feeney/Lemme Affair. That is why we couldn’t announce that I had taken (on March 3) or passed the test on the Blogcall 2 radio broadcast with Brad on March 8th. Unfortunately, the exclusive we granted turned out to be a waste when the article appeared."
Scott #56: "You’re welcome!"
Miss Persistent #57: "Yes, the P.I. was hired out of D.C. but he was investigating espionage, not the Lemme case. He didn’t tell us who he worked for so we were not sure whose side he was on. He did end up setting up the polygraph test for me though. It is very expensive to hire a P.I. I’d be happy to if somebody wants to pay for it."
Looks like another challenge for the Brad Blog "6 or 7"! Steve
Miss Persistent #61 — Noooo! I haven’t even thought to venture back down to the morgue in ages. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll try to remember to pop in every now & again.
Hello Clint,
I know I am way past the day of the Blogathon but I have followed your story and wondered what happened to the report that Raymond Lemme was working on? He must have saved a copy of it somewhere. I may have missed that information. Stay safe and keep up the good work. We are all lucky to have people like you, Brad, Winter Patriot, Kira, Steve, etc…….. to keep the important stories out there. I hope that your story stays alive. I try to pass along this site as often as I can.