the day after he writes this letter the letter of recommendation for yang enterprises have they had any problems with you prior to this investigation i believe in january of two thousand and one i received an outstanding evaluation that went into a lot of detail as to the value of my services to the department how long had you been with the department and with the department in eighty eight eighty eight yes i mean i've been with the department far almost fifteen years at this point yes the department did a. an agency cleansing of any corporate knowledge concerning the problems with the yang contract how many people were fired and half a dozen other. myself to anybody who was involved with the yang contract is now originally is now right on correct in fact on her they tried to get her to sign a little paper saying she resigned. she said that she signed the resign when and

she kept to the one where he said you're fired so when it went to court when they said well she resigned voluntarily we didn't do anything about it she can produce a paper showing that they're just flat out lying she for the whistleblower suit yes and she won the case he won the game in two thousand and four the florida department of transportation's audit of yang enterprises found eight hundred fifty thousand dollars in questioned and qualified costs of that amount yang was asked to repay one hundred thirty two thousand pending further investigation. hello phoenix we've got a huge show for you today de bold whistle blower steven heller in his first live broadcast interview with steve heller had been working as a temp at the bold los angeles law firm jones day and he came across some disturbing memos. i believe in my heart even though i hadn't quite admitted it to myself as soon as i saw them those documents i think i knew i was going to

eventually release them boys people who are jones they went to court to try to stop the publication of those documents i believe it was their law firm that tried to stop the paper from publishing them but the judge very wisely ruled that once it's been published it's out there and he's not going to force them to withdraw the publication then there was a raid at your house seven am in the in the morning some time after the release of this information they had a felony search warrant they searched the house thoroughly and they confiscated our computers my wife and my computers our cell phones my address book other various papers our scanner they took a lot of stuff but they didn't charge me at that time when were you then finally arrested and charged with these felony three felony counts i was charged in february of two thousand and six you can't really talk about what those documents were that you there never has a doubt right that's true brad those documents were attorney client privilege information and that's why i got arrested in the first place and even now if i were to talk about the content i could be at risk of getting myself in in trouble. can i talk about the content you can say anything you want i will write of de bold was

asking legal advice about having secretly installed uncertified software on voting machines to be used in the two thousand and four california election it was a clear violation of the law and you have to understand i grew up during vietnam and watergate and my first thought was i'm going to get these to the press because the press is the fourth estate the great watchdog but then i realized like i said a moment ago no one in america in the press was covering this issue i started reading the only mammals which had been round or everywhere the internet but a certain point of time i realize it's hasta live in america i knew already that the f.e.c. rules should not be there and i don't say well that would be a problem because the memory card is proprietor when no it's not i have seen this guy before he actually went on immediately i wrote the bold and god in written response saying this member of god's appropriate technology by the boat is not

a whale or from anywhere else so deep old told him in a letter that i actually saw it all so i was to know you know i have almost photographic memory i know i have seen this guy before i actually did it to me two weeks to figure out what a memory card was and then it all the sudden play the time the old the or tional first part that ever made a bow leapt up computer by tandy tatty this is the memory unit it's absolute memory cut that out that's from the patent i got the name of some america now i know who you are. so off there i knew what it is i spent hundred thirty bucks i got the raider because of its design the d. bold touch screen machine proved vulnerable to a twenty year old hack the old bootloader hack there's nothing worse than bootloader hack honestly i haven't seen this kind of things to happen in twenty years this you can do you confirm this this isn't on the db old. machine this is

court affirmed by me and proof of concept were for going by princeton university so you have independent verification for my filing in two thousand and six a princeton university professor and two graduate students confirmed what harry hursti had already proven they posted their demonstration on youtube hacking the de bold touch screen machine in less than one minute's time they inserted a vote flipping virus that changed vote tallies would spread to other machines and flip an election without leaving a trace it would hold did they didn't steal the last election but you know if they did. i guess the outcome would have been completely different if we had a different president more in iraq that probably wouldn't have happened most likely that's the biggest impact i think this is a national security issue. it's a national is it a national security issue of course for the race and being that you actually decide

for who are going to make the dishes for the future i mean everything to do with the wild things are additional security level issues in all the conferees not only in the u.s. one of the good alex disappear was sort of his second call mind who was responsible in office for i see the security came to me as a i don't understand what do you guys do what is this big fuss about this you know the message from the hack of course they can be hacked we're not coming here real things like molly cording to a report in rolling stone magazine jacki aber mops lobbying firm greenberg traurig was paid two hundred seventy five thousand dollars by de bold just before the passage of the help america vote act or hava of two thousand and two aber mof took the author of hava congressman bob ney on a lavish golfing trip to scotland both aber mof and nay have since been convicted of felonies relating to these matters and are currently serving time in prison bob ney is

a felon and currently can't vote in the state of ohio yet we're stuck with his bill this whole mess began early this chapter begins with this help america vote act three point eight billion dollars federal act has now put these machines out all over the map with little or no oversight. we have to fix that it's. not for us sakes alone while the united states of america but those are for the global sake because otherwise these will just keep on spreading they're picking up our technology the things that were. actually u.s. companies trying to sell it very agora civil if the. number of places where democracy hasn't been very strongly go i mean yes and this is selling to hungary and this is selling to england also a number of the manufacturers are using different names when they say sell their matches globally is that at the heart of this this privatization of our public

election system i think so and i think it's a horrible idea i just can't understand why anyone would think that in the united states it's a good idea to let a private corporation run our elections for us in secret using she quit machines and secret software that's insanity i think the last election was stolen for sure and now there's some question of those voting machines and it is the. people that own. their own buy and supposedly our friends are dick cheney in an infamous fund raising letter to supporters in the summer of two thousand and three deep old c.e.o. wally odell promised to deliver ohio's electoral votes to george w. bush friendly gesture to simply assume that we don't steal votes in the united states is patently absurd in mahoning county where youngstown is located and this is verified by the board of elections themselves. twenty to thirty touch

screen voting machines recorded votes for candidates opposed to those selected by the voters always jumping from democrat to republican i can think of no other way this could have happened except this that these touch screen machines were programmed to default to candidate bush. and if you did not override the default choice of that computer you would be voting for bush as for investigating the two thousand and four presidential election in ohio despite a court order fifty six out of eighty eight ohio counties destroyed some or all of their ballots from that election and it's like organized crime that organized crime people in their own home stay organized crime are good guys crime doesn't go still a million dollars what they steal is they still a little every day and i think that's what the republicans understand is that if you don't get too greedy you know you still some votes in warren county is still

some votes in claremont county you have some computer glitch problem here and there suddenly it's that's why you have to have checks and balances you have to have full transparency here thing here is if you want to immediately increase the level of security you will start by releasing these absentee ballots because in state of cali forni on average in basically every column thirty percent of the voters are absentees you have a very solid evidence if the rest of the bunch doesn't fall into say you know you say release those things already right now we're already scanning them with the optical scanners if they have the image at least those images doesn't really need more new legislation you're going to stop doing it right now how would one keep this from happening the ability to steal an election nonproprietary source right nonproprietary hardware because you can hide in the hardware. brand. in my mind silver bullet means

a solution where you don't have to trust anyone you kind of very far i. that the vote you cast was recorded accurately you can verify that your vote waltz it and you can verify that your vote will spot of the total so you can access every single turning point in every single process spawn of the election pros and see that my vote is going through there so if we have to count the paper to be absolutely sure about the machine count anyway and what do we need the machines for in the first place it's a tool it's not a god it's a tool now i'm fired i apply for jobs you know programmer but at nasa work with exxon mobile right he can't find a job anywhere and of stocking shelves of the dollar store. really. so i'm thinking i'm not getting a real good recommendation from yang in the o.t.

so now you are going to dollar store dollar store stocking shelves and let me shows up remember just comes in some time and he's staring at me over the top of these little you know potato chip type holder and i walked over to say can i help you and he said no i'm just shop and he leaves and then he comes in again and tells me he's been working on the case on the side he's looking into this on his own on his own for fun i don't know why i was going to do with this information if you can if you do it and i guess if he gets enough of it he thinks he can pop it somewhere i don't know so he keeps coming in and ask me questions about boat rigging and spies and i don't know so what he wants so i just answer whatever he asked this was a big case that he was making headway on it was an official case because officially he was going to do nothing because feeney would let him do anything so i give him information but he didn't give it back clanton tecate to me that railway me had told him that it was much bigger. that what he was investigating was much

bigger and went higher concert this to you clint said that to me all over the top who do you think it was who was the top i was thinking bush i don't know whether jeb bush or whether went farther than that from finis conversation that he thought he was right with bush feeney said that you had it with bush both george and jeb so let me says to you this goes over there. and i do is wait a couple weeks and i'll be thrilled with the results so you would a couple weeks and he turned up dead in a georgia motel room. was. she. like first thought was they killed him. did you feel. guilty you feel guilty if i hadn't brought it to him then he would have got involved what was

a dose of death they send suicide but they don't do autopsies in georgia people died in florida it's an automatic autopsy i mean if you if a suicide occurred in florida it would be an automatic autopsy. in georgia not mandatory not mandatory right it had to have occurred had he been killed in. not been killed my speculation is he offended somebody and he. usually got killed. because the hotel he was at is this real secluded you know tree lines on both sides it's a little shabby twenty three dollar a night hotel you know if you wanted to kill yourself. why not stop somewhere in florida he was we're going to tallahassee florida we're going to tallahassee so here we're intel and then there's valdosta which is just hour and a half away hour and a half way it's sort of a border town in georgia and it's up

a ways there are a lot of hotels are going to stop at georgia prior to getting to valdosta it's a whole thing just wrong there's a report that he called into d.o.t. at six forty five in the morning and yet they have him killing himself thirty eight minutes later even though it's another hour to get the valdosta supposedly he's in the motel room one night but there's two receipts. in the police report it says one is a check and receipt the other is the check out receipt he killed himself he didn't check out well i've not checked in a motel room where they charge you up front in other words they check you in and takes you out at the same time on different days. i think they do it yeah there's another problem with that the first received is dated june twenty ninth two thousand and three he was in tallahassee determined to those three he didn't kiss his way goodbye as she says until june thirtieth. two thousand and three so the fifteen who's in the room in june twenty ninth in the hotel room they found

a blank with a legal pad and an empty file folder and every time he'd come talk to me he had his little yellow pad his old file folder full of papers are you suggesting that the papers are going yes and you're suggesting that somebody took those papers would you take a. legal pad in a with two suicide maybe he wanted to have. his rights a suicide note on the notes where too because he didn't talk about his daughter and the daughter was just about to be married and he mentioned his wife by name he has one child a daughter daughter he does not mention her does not mention her but every time we talked at the dollar store part of the conversation with you know how is your daughter she doing you get married you know doesn't mention her in a suicide note mentions is why did he sign a suicide note didn't sign it he put it the money.

the police say they took photographs would do to a failure in the cameras flash memory there would be no photographs that we've recently seen that there are in fact photographs that conflict the police report do conflict the police report. the valdosta police report alleged there was no blood on the towel and no visible trauma to the body the photographs of raymond let me. seem to suggest otherwise. and valdosta police have confirmed that these photographs are real and that due to interest on the internet in december of two thousand and four they reopened the case of raymond let me also around that time they spoke with someone at the florida department of transportation and that they closed the case shortly thereafter now they won't tell me who it is they talked to at the ford department transportation. they told me over and over and over that they were not stonewalling me then there is they didn't call me back ever again and

remember they're involved das the georgia. so what the hell does the florida department of transportation have to do with an investigation that they're doing at a georgia police department so the fact that a call from someone at after would lead to shutting down the investigation in georgia. you know i don't know if there's anything sinister there or not but it sure doesn't smell right six weeks after lemmy died tom feeney went golfing at st andrews in scotland he was the special guest super lobbyist jack eeprom off after let me turned up dead and things were not moving along very well i went ahead wrote a book and put it out there i had even published a book and i get this e-mail and it says something about like they know about the book you know don't be alone are you worried about. somebody taking your life if

it's wrong you have to do the right thing no matter what it costs and she is doing this to sell books making this a range of claims no longer outrageous most of it's already been proven well nonetheless i think you found most of the group. i don't know. when this story broke publicly did anybody do the media break down your door to try to figure out what the hell was going on here and reference to the voting you're the only person who may have contacted me c.n.n. never called a.p. now sixty minutes now. major points from

here has not touched this affidavit story which is part of what we're looking for you soon you're afraid i mean it's a good dan rather that's pretty impressive so. how safe do you feel compared to dan rather this thing matters and i don't care which side of the political spectrum you're on i say frequently when i speak this is not about left and right this is about right and wrong if we can't have confidence in our democracy in america in the world's greatest democracy if we can't have confidence and i mean both the winners and the losers. then what kind of example are we setting for the rest of the world why the hell are we sending people out all around the world to fight and die to presumably spread democracy if we don't even have it here we have become known. to an ethical behavior our our

lives are very difficult work laying down to our middle class by our fingernails we who the american people when you have that five minutes that you can be home and close the door and have some peace it's fery very difficult to say look what you're doing to my fate you're at the center of a very explosive story where people have died i don't know if it was murder suicide probably wasn't so it's i thought it wasn't suicide. that's not funny. i never had this feeling before. that there's no place to turn. normally you have the media you go to the press the press would become furious at least parts of it enough. where you go to you congressman. but nobody seems to care approximately eighty percent of the votes in the united states of america are counted by d. or e.

s.n.'s in his continuing effort to demand accountability and to publicize his story clint curtis ran for congress against tom feeney in two thousand and six feeney refused to debate curtis and outspent him by a factor of twenty six to one there's was one of four congressional races in florida that were contested in two thousand and six prompting florida's new republican governor and a republican legislature to mandate that they would vote on paper ballots in the two thousand and eight election where curtis will run again against tom feeney maybe george jealous spent years in the courts fighting both the yangs and after ultimately she was reinstated with full back pay and awarded a large settlement from the florida department of transportation. in august two thousand and seven d. bold changed its name to premier election solutions inc i think what. is

is really an object lesson in what can go wrong and how easily it can go wrong in fact we don't know if his software and his code was ever used in any voting software but the fact that we're not able to look at the software that is used to count votes this secret software that is used to count of votes in america. the world's greatest democracy is frankly a scandal and we all should be very concerned about. the.

let's. wait out. let's see. that. lets. out.

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it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow marina josh and today we take a look at the stories that shape the week dangerous levels of pollution disrupted flights and a blanket of smog over moscow state sticking in the throat the forests and peat fires caused by a record breaking heat wave across central russia are making a life for millions in misery fifty two people are confirmed dead half a million have been injured and many more have lost their homes or we now cross live to our cheesy gorefest can often call me the helpless for us there and who is in the moscow region which is really badly affected he bore a whole load to you good morning so tell us what's what's happening where you are at the moment is it still hard. breeze there. were morning morning and fortunately nothing much has changed compared to yesterday it is still very hard to

breathe the small is still very thick very poor visibility and it's really is advisable to breathe in these masks and i have one here and i can tell you i'm definitely going to use it as soon as we're done with this report i'm around ten kilometers away from moscow now the situation here and in the city center is quite similar here are these are the remains off what used to be a village it's totally destroyed by the fire and actually several hours ago some people started coming here cleaning up this rubble but this is all despite these extreme conditions and authorities are really giving some troubling information they say that seventeen regions have been affected by the fires seven of them have declared a state of emergency including moscow region and they say that currently there are over eight hundred and fifty fires and that includes peak fires which are.