Was White House e-mail scrubber murdered?

The Bush administration insider who set up the secret White House email accounts that were mysteriously erased when the US Attorneys firing scandal hit has died in a suspicious plane crash. He apparently claimed that he was being threatened by Karl Rove!

WASHINGTON, Dec 20, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush's 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed last night when his single engine plane crashed three miles short of the Akron airport. Velvet Revolution ("VR"), a non-profit that has been investigating Mr. Connell's activities for the past two years, can now reveal that a person close to Mr. Connell has recently been discussing with a VR investigator how he can tell all about his work for George Bush. Mr. Connell told a close associate that he was afraid that George Bush and Dick Cheney would "throw [him] under the bus."

A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather.

Connell's name comes up in every creepy piece of alleged malfeasance of the entire Bush era, from election fraud to the political prosecution of Don Seigelman. Journalist Larisa Alexandrovna reluctantly revealed that he was a source because of the deeply disturbing timing of a source into high crimes by the White House dying just as he was ready to talk.

This sounds like a cheesy suspense movie plot but its a disturbing story nonetheless.

UPDATE: More