Anyway, to start sort of at the beginning. The revelation of
Guckert/Gannon as a fake reported in the White House, working for an
outfit called, GOPUSA, whose main business seems to be setting up
conservative media sites to attract people who can later be dunned for
contributions to unwinnable positions (gay marriage,e.g.) and asking
leading questions during the campaign that allowed the White House to
spin its message into the MSM, got me into trying to follow the money.
After all, the line was that all those fake reporters (there were some
to target Daschle, Gephardt, and, of course, Dean) were volunteers who
put out a story a day, at least, and pretended to be following the
candidates and just happening to pick up information that could be spun
negatively. It's just not credible that they were living on air.
Since there seemed to be some co-ordination with the SBVT and the
writers for GOPUSA and Talon, it seemed reasonable to take a closer look
there and, now that various FEC and IRS filings are being put out by the
Center for the Public Interest, there's a bit more information about how
much was spent and by whom. Also about who contributed, but I think
that's less important. The contributors were probably ideologically
motivated. The people who spent it are probably criminals.
Anyway, two pieces of information about the SBVTs that I think are of
interest are:
1) Although their official report states that they took in about $17
million and spent $21 million (much more than was ever reported in the
media), the detailed breakdown of who got paid indicates that one outfit,
Mentzer Media got $31 million out of some $35 million total.
2) The details supporting these latter figures, on documents that
purport to have been acquired by Public Interest from the IRS, show that
some time in early October 2004, every payment to every vendor and
employee is entered twice--two identical payments on the same day in
every case. The overage, roughly calculated, comes to the difference
between the $21 million reported spent and the $35 million reported
received by the vendors of services. Whether they actually got paid
double should be checkable. http://www.public-i.org/527/handler-download.aspx?act=txt&type=exp&org=707&year=2004
The fellow who was in charge of the day to day operation of the SBVT
enterprise is one William E. Franke,
http://www.gannonintl.com/BiographicalSketches.htm
Franke has a history of defrauding his first wife after their divorce and
of defaulting on HUD loans. Franke's normal enterprise is an outfit
called GANNON INTERNATIONAL, which has been a going concern since the
1980s. Gannon International has a number of subsidiaries, one of which,
Gannon Technologies Group, boasts on its web site (I am going to copy all
of it so it won't be lost. The home page of Gannon International seems
to be blank) about its stellar client list.
http://www.gannonintl.com/Frames_Tech_files/pagestream.htm
The Gannon Technologies Group was initiated to deliver products and
services to the vast new industry associated with the Internet.
Staking a claim at the epicenter of this technology, The Gannon
Technologies Group provides high volume electronic image conversion and
optical character reading services, capable of attaining a virtual 100%
accurate full text data base (ASCII) retrieval for 100% accurate data
reproduction for unlimited volumes of data stored on any medium.
Further, this group develops various software applications for the
efficient management of massive databases.
The capacity of The Gannon Technologies Group is both highly strategic,
and highly valued. Few companies can match its operating capacities, its
long history of such services, and the software necessarily borne of
such a history.
The constituent entities comprising The Gannon Technologies Group have
their central offices at 1000 North Payne Street, Suite 200, in
Alexandria, Virginia with a processing facility in Warsaw, Virginia.
The Gannon Technologies Operating Systems
The Electronic Imagery and Optical Character Recognition Operating
Systems, designed and owned by The Gannon Technologies Group, permit the
high speed conversion of massive amounts of data into electronic images
from paper of virtually any size or condition, microfilm, microfiche or
aperture cards.
While requiring several steps, each requiring software developed by The
Gannon Technologies Group, the in common steps performed by The Gannon
Technologies Group are imaging and optical character recognition.
Imaging is the process of converting documents from any format (paper,
microfilm, microfiche, and aperature card) into an electronic image. It
requires several different software applications, from image enhancement
to anti-skew to compression/decompression softwares.
Optical character recognition is the second step in the process, whereby
the entire text is placed into the ASCII format, thereby making every
single word or figure individually retrievable. While typical OCR
software achieves character recognition to an approximate 85% level for
machine generated data, The Gannon Technologies Group can achieve a
recognition frequency exceeding 96% through its supplemental software
application, and a virtual 100% recognition factor through the complete
cycle of its process.
This database can be placed onto any prescribed medium, including
magnetic tape, CD-ROM, optical platters and magnetic cartridges in the
desired format. This database is then up-loaded to the electronic image
information management system.
The system is an all inclusive process, including material preparation,
scanning, image clean-up (image rotation, automatic skew
detection/correction, automatic cropping and de-speckling), synch
checking (a process that determines that all images have been captured
and are in the correct sequence), indexing, including key entry, bar
code, automatic merging with existing computerized databases and quality
control.
The development of this operating system is a significant achievement
and represents a substantial asset of the The Gannon Technologies Group.
The Gannon Technologies Group Processing Track Record
To date, The Gannon Technologies Group has converted over 200,000,000
documents for a wide variety of clients, across every phase of our
economy. Many such conversions were prior to the finalization of
Gannon's enhanced optical character recognition software
Within the federal government, The Gannon Technologies Group has
provided services to the following federal agencies (with projected
requirements of several billion images during the terms of the
contracts):
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Prisons, the
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and the Anti-Trust Division
The National Institutes of Health, including the National Medical
Library
U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Ships Registry
Within state and local government, The Gannon Technologies Group has
provided services to the following agencies:
State of Kansas-Vital Records
State of New York - Department of Health
State of Ohio - Secretary of State and the Department of Transportation
Arlington County, Virginia
City of Norfolk Police Department
Virginia State Retirement System
City of Roanoke, Treasurer's Office
City of Norfolk - Real Estate Assessors Office
Within trade and professional associations, The Gannon Technologies
Group has provided services to the following:
The American Automobile Association
Chemical Manufacturers Association
National Board of Medical Examiners
Within private enterprise, The Gannon Technologies Group has provided a
wide range of services, including for the following corporations:
Household Finance Corporation
MCI (litigation support for AT&T anti-trust litigation)
Atlantic Richfield Co.
International Paper
Trustmark National Bank
The GTG Team
Mark Walch -- Director of Technology
Litigation Systems, Inc. (“LSI”)
LSI is a full-service corporation providing innovative, high quality,
cost-efficient litigation support and information management solutions
since 1984.
A pioneer in the application of new technology for litigation support
and information management, LSI assists various government agencies,
corporations and law firms in records/document management - organizing
document collections into structured, secure systems that allow clients
to organize, search, and manage large volumes of information quickly and
efficiently.
LSI leads the way in the development, implementation, and refinement of
technology in information management. Further leveraging our technology
base, the company has developed systems to recover and reformat
electronic data (electronic document discovery) directly into accurate,
full-text databases that can be integrated with coded document
databases. LSI's innovative approach to information management combines
in-depth litigation services experience with the ability to apply new
technology to the litigation support and document management field.
Click here to visit the Litigation Systems, Inc. website.
www.litsys.com
http://www.litsys.com/LSI%20Pricelist%20for%20website_Fall%202004.pdf
The LSI Team:
Robert Scott -- President/Chief Executive Officer
Siobhan McCarthy -- Vice President of Litigation Support Services
Jeff Vance -- Vice President of Information Technology Services
Bryan Ricapato -- Senior Marketing Representative
Click here for specific contact information.
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For such a high tech outfit, they have a really shoddy web
presentation. But, that seems not uncharacteristic. There's another
guy in these SBVT who presents less than is there. If you'll remember,
Kenneth W. Cordier was a volunteer for Bush/Cheney who had to "resign"
after it was made public that he appeared prominently in some of the ads
where he spoke of the effect John Kerry's words against the War had on
the POWs incarcerated in Hanoi. What was never mentioned in all the
news coverage, was that Cordier had a distinguished career in the Air
Force in Germany and Great Britain and that after he retired, he became
a lobbyist for British Aerocom. Nor was it mentioned that now that he's
retired to Dallas, he's a motivational speaker and a good friend of the
Vietnamese American Committee, on whose behalf he objected to the
invitation by the William Joiner Center at UMass, Boston, of two
Vietnamese scholars who were deemed inappropriate. Which is sort of
strange since another one of Gannon International's subsidiaries is
Gannon Pacific, whose head is Head of the American Chamber of Commerce
in Ho Chi Minh City.
So, on the one hand the SBVT are very anti-Vietnam, but on the other,
both the spokesman for the group and the manager of its finances seem to
have on-going business interest there. And I thought it was only
Kerry's brother who was doing business with the communists.
The name of Franke's outfit actually surface when people were trying to
find the origin of the alias being used by Guckert. That turned up one
John C. Gannon, a long time star in the CIA who since his retirement has
hooked up with other stars in something called INTELLIBRIDGE, set up by
David J. Rothkopf with the help of Anthony Lake, Kissinger & Associates
and Lt.Col Ron Buikema. (They seem to be in the game primarily for the
power, rather than the money, and I can't see why they would object to
Kerry). There has been some suspicion that Gannon's sexual interests
were being used as a lure by the CIA. Perhaps "gannon" is a common
alias in the agency. Anyway, if Gannon Tech's claims are valid, they have
some powerful connections somewhere.
Oh, I just noticed, going through the list of their clients, that they
serve Houshold Finance. That's of interest because Household
International is where Finn Casperson gets his money and Finn Casperson
is of interest because of his connection to the Republican Leadership
Council, some of whose operatives were just convicted of tampering with
phones in the 2002 election in New Hampshire. Casperson also operates
through the Hodson Trust, along with his associate Gerald L. Holm, whose
connected to the Texas Tech University Dr. Keith William Center for
Petroleum Math Halliburton Foundation. Casperson also has an interest
in Citizens for a Better America www.cfaba.org, which may or may not
have the same aims as the now defunct Council of Conservative Citizens.