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The White House email controversy: who runs GWB43.COM? (continued)
FIGURE H
 
It looks like SMARTech hosts their own servers. Roll over picture for a larger image.
According to its "Contact Us" page, SMARTech is located at 801 Broad Street, Suite 220 in Chattanooga. Although I've had some very pleasant visits to Chattanooga, it was a long time ago, and I don't remember the area particularly well. Fortunately, Google Earth can give us a bird's eye view of where these servers seem to be located, as you can see in Figure I.
FIGURE I
 
The servers appear to be in downtown Chattanooga. Roll over picture for a larger image.
But what else runs on the SMARTech servers? Netcraft can help here as well. We did a lookup on the netblock 64.203.96.0-64.203.111.255, which appear to be the IP addresses owned by SMARTech. Figure J shows all three pages returned by the Netcraft query.
FIGURE J
 
SMARTech appears to mostly run Microsoft IIS and Apache servers. Roll over picture for a larger image.
SMARTech appears to mostly run Microsoft IIS and Apache servers. Digging through the sites operated by SMARTech, Table B shows more RNC-related customers, some local Chattanooga companies, and, strangely, at least one government Web site.
| Domain |
Description |
| JOHNMCCAIN.COM |
John McCain, of course, is a leading contender in the 2007 Presidential race. He's had the domain operating since 1998. |
| RPTF.COM |
This is the National Republican Senatorial Committee |
| OFHEO.GOV |
This is the Web site for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, part of Housing and Urban Development. According to Wikipedia, "It is charged with ensuring the capital adequacy and financial safety and soundness of two government sponsored enterprises -- the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)." |
So, what else can we find out about SMARTech and Jeff Averbeck?
According to CampaignMoney.com, Averbeck donated a total of $5,320 to the RNC between 2000 and 2006. We also know that, according to Federal Election Commission records, the RNC purchased Web services from SMARTech:
- $15,213.06 on 12/17/2003
- $15,213.06 on 12/18/2003
- $819.38 on 12/23/2003
The RNC also purchased Web services from Airnet Group, Inc. (which is the name of the company that owns SMARTech):
- $14,884.31 on 10/02/2003
- $1,365.63 on 11/06/2003
In total, it looks like the RNC spent $47,495.44 back in 2003 with Averbeck's company to set up and manage Web sites. On the surface, that may look like a lot of money but, as someone who's managed Web sites and bought high-speed Internet feeds, I can assure you that's actually a pretty reasonable price to run such high-profile Web sites.
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