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WHITE HOUSE SCRAMBLES TO EXPLAIN FAKE REPORTER IN ITS PRESS CORPS

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 22 February 2005
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by Brian Kelly

Internet researchers have uncovered new evidence that contradicts the Bush Administration’s claims about James Guckert, a Republican activist allegedly involved in criminal activities and linked to an incident involving a major breach of national security. Guckert, operating as "Jeff Gannon," was granted daily access to White House press briefings for more than two years as a "reporter" for Talon News.

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan stated that Guckert was granted access in part because he was affiliated with a news organization that "publishes regularly." But yesterday, bloggers discovered video footage suggesting this standard was not applied to Guckert. Video footage of a Feb. 28, 2003 White House press briefing shows Guckert, apparently unaffiliated with any news organization, asking former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer a question. It is unclear why Guckert was granted any pass at this time, since the Internet-based Talon News did not register its domain name until March 29, 2003.

Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, reported today she was denied press credentials at the start of the Bush administration in 2001. Yet Guckert, whose only journalistic training was derived from a $50 weekend seminar, was repeatedly granted access.

Despite calls from Congress for the White House to disclose its standards for entrance to the briefing room, the Bush administration has yet to reveal its credentialing standards or details surrounding the scandal, including: specific dates when Guckert was admitted to the briefing room, how many passes he was issued, as well as how he cleared a Secret Service background check while owing the state of Delaware over $20,000 in back taxes (penalties and interest) and possibly engaging in prostitution, as revealed by Americablog.org.

Guckert has also been implicated in a leak of federal classified information that revealed the identity of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame. Revealing the identity of an undercover agent is a federal crime.

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has insisted that President Bush will do anything he can to assist the Plame investigation. But the White House has not answered questions about the role of Guckert in the Plame investigation or his inexplicable access to White House Press Corps briefings.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/18/0748/71841

Forum posts

  • Wow, you mean this administration, the administration of Jesus H. Bush isn’t really anti-gay? According to the MSM the Messiah has come back in the form of Jesus H. Bush, and now we find out that he is probably gay, and involved with a fudge packer reporter wanna-be...this explains the swagger it is really a swish and the whole Catholic thing. The only thing I’m a bit puzzled about is that the Bible didn’t say anything about Jesus being queer, but I guess it was fairly obvious since he had his 12 men "friends" with him at all times. Our little cheerleader Jesus has been very coy about his proclivities, I hope this doesn’t blow his cover, the red necks shouldn’t be told for sure they might not send their kids to kill for him. So in their daily praise heaping and scraping and bowing and praying to his highness it would be best if the "media" dosen’t mention Bush’s little pal Guckert/Gannon, the less said the better...support our troops, don’t tell them that their commander in chief is a prissy little fairy.

  • The gay aspect is a red herring. The deep politics aspect of the story is the connection between the White House, conservative e-mail harvester and fundraiser Bruce W. Eberle, and GOPUSA President Bobby Eberle. Bobby Eberle’s eyewitness testimony of Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon is the big break we’ve been waiting for, the first tiny window into the American conspiracy behind 9-11

    http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/02/gannongate-and-9-11.html

    The missing link? Partner of GOPUSA founder has checkered past as Republican moneyman

    http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=104

    "Now, this is rich. One of the most vivid "eyewitnesses" for the official storyline that American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon is none other than Bobby Eberle, the founder of GOPUSA and Talon News; the man who paid to put Jeff Gannon in the White House.

    Eberle’s testimonial is cited by such plane-huggers as Jim Hoffman at his www.wtc7.net website."

    http://www.libertythink.com/2005/02/gannon-paymaster-key-911-pentagon.html

    Hunter S. Thompson Knew About CIA Sex-Cult, Book Alleges
    This is about as far down the rabbit hole as most people wish to go - it might be that the Hunter S. Thompson "suicide" is related to the whole Guckert/Gannon saga. Thompson’s "Gonzo" journalism, where he immersed himself in the story, may have gone too far. This book by DeCamp, while not easy reading, has an interesting final line. The testimony by Paul Bonacci, a victim of the Franklin Scandal who was awarded millions in compensation, discusses a "Hunter Thompson", although it is likely a code name. This is not an attempt to smear HST after his death, only to present possibly relevant information for those who are not convinced that his death was self-inflicted. If HST was really involved to the extent that DeCamp’s book alleges (and if indeed HST’s name is actually referring to HIM) then there is a possible blackmail motive behind the suicide, assuming HST pulled the trigger.

    http://www.thelawparty.org/FranklinCoverup/FranklinBookGrove.htm

    Victims of King and his associates also charged him with participating in at least one satanic ritual murder of a child.

    As DeCamp reports, victim-witness Paul Bonacci was at one point taken to a retreat for political elites such as George Bush and Henry Kissinger in Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where they were forced to participate in sex and to consume parts of a child whom they had watched being murdered by the cultists.

    http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_world_class_criminal.html

    Tyranny Response Unit:
    http://www.trunews.blogspot.com/

    • the eberle "eyewitness" scam is a very revealing link to those willing to delve deeper to uncover the sinister connections to the whole 911 coverup. this gannon story is bigger than watergate - but where’s the media-whores today when you need them ?? - all quivering under their desks in fear of rubbing the "administration" up the wrong way. If the media had the balls and guts they used to then none of the 911 and subsequent horror of war would have happened. remember watergate, hell CLINTON’S DICK - caused more furore than the depravity of whats going on every five minutes under the corruption of the current administration.