[Ninong]

This is hilarious!

It's seems that Secret Service records indicate that JimmyJeff GannonGuckert made more than 200 excursions into the White House. On 155 of those occasions he attended press briefings. On more than three dozen occasions there were no briefings that day. I wonder if perhaps there were debriefings instead?

On some fourteen occasions the records show that JimmyJeff checked in but was never processed out???

"Guckert made more than three dozen excursions to the White House when there were no scheduled briefings. On many of these days, the Press Office held press gaggles aboard Air Force One—which raises questions about what Guckert was doing at the White House."

Here is the entire story: http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne...gannon_424.htm

P.S. -- The official White House story, if I remember correctly, was that "Jeff Gannon" was issued a DAY PASS on various occasions to attend White House press briefings. No one seemed to remember exactly who authorized those DAY PASSES. Karl Rove? Scott McClellan?

[schrocat]

Originally Posted by Ninong

This is hilarious!

It's seems that Secret Service records indicate that JimmyJeff GannonGuckert made more than 200 excursions into the White House. On 155 of those occasions he attended press briefings. On more than three dozen occasions there were no briefings that day. I wonder if perhaps there were debriefings?

On some fourteen occasions the records show that JimmyJeff checked in but was never processed out???

"Guckert made more than three dozen excursions to the White House when there were no scheduled briefings. On many of these days, the Press Office held press gaggles aboard Air Force One—which raises questions about what Guckert was doing at the White House."

Here is the entire story: http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne...gannon_424.htm

Dude.
Where did he disappear to?
He had to have left the W.H with someone who would simply get waved out the gate...so I'm assuming a few Scott and JeffGuckerGanoodle'n dinner dates??
The right would freak out if Scott and Jeff were xeroxing each others asses in the "sacred" "O"val Office. OR WORSE!!!

Puhleeeeze let it be true! JeffGuckGanoolewensky!!!

[Ninong]

Scott McClellan is one possibility but I can think of another possibility that would be even more interesting. What if it turns out that on some of those visits, Scott wasn't even at the White House? Think of a "senior White House advisor." Maybe Karl Rove was telling the truth when he said they had a mandate?




P.S. -- Obviously the facts and figures are true. They came directly from the Secret Service but only after they were demanded under the FOIA. Don't worry, the president has said that he will get to the bottom of this as soon as he finishes getting to the bottom of who released the fact that Valerie Plame was a covert CIA agent to that traitorous Bob Novak. Which reminds me that JimmyJeff claimed to have seen that secret CIA memo. He was obviously aware of the fact that Amb. Wilson's wife was a CIA agent when he interviewed him on-air the DAY BEFORE the story broke in the WSJ.

[Ninong]

The question is not whether he failed to check out on a few occasions, the real question is what was he doing there, supposedly on a temporary day pass, on days when there were no scheduled briefings? How can you get a day pass for a press briefing if there are none that day?

According to the Secret Service, he visited the White House on more than three dozen occasions when there were no press briefings. On a few of those occasions there is no record of his checking in and on two dozen occasions there is no record of him checking out. Also, he sometimes left through exits not normally used by the press.

P.S. -- To receive a day pass to White House press briefings even on days when there are no briefings, is it necessary to be both a plagiarist AND a prostitute or will one suffice?

[Ninong]

Reps. Conyers and Slaughter wrote a letter to Scott McClellan today demanding answers.

I don't know why they expect him to be any more forthcoming that he was in his previous answers. He has always said that "Gannon" was treated the same as any other "reporter" and that he had no personal involvement in granting "Gannon" access. That was handled by a low level civil servant on his staff with absolutely no input from him. Yeah, right!

They would like Scott McClellan to tell them with whom Mr. "Gannon" met on the 38 occasions when he was granted access to the White House on days when there were no public press events and they would also like to know the "subject matter of those meetings." Lots of luck on that one!

Here is the text of their letter:

April 25, 2005

Scott McClellan
Assistant to the President and Press Secretary
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. McClellan,

We write to ask you to identify who in your office, or in the White House generally, gave Mr. James Guckert a.k.a. "Jeff Gannon" virtually unfettered access to the White House. In reviewing the response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the Department of Homeland Security several of our specific concerns were validated. While your office and the White House have claimed Gannon was treated as just another reporter, the records we have obtained affirm that Gannon was granted access to the White House which appears to be unusual for any reporter. Out of concern for not only security, but also avoiding White House dissemination of propaganda, we request an explanation to the following:

1. The Department of Homeland Security's records indicate that Mr. "Gannon" entered the White House Complex 196 times in the past two years. He attended 155 of the 196 press conferences held at the White House in the two year period. This is disconcerting considering that your office and "Mr. Gannon" have maintained that his access was sporadic. At what point is a "hard pass" required?

2. The records show that Mr. "Gannon" was allowed access to the White House 38 times when no public press events occurred. He also spent hours in the White House both before and after press events took place. With whom did he meet on those occasions and what was the subject matter of those meetings?

3. On 13 occasions there is a record where he checked in with security, but is never registered as leaving the White House complex. How do you explain this?

4. Your Media Assistant, Lois Cassano, requested a total of 48 day passes for Mr. "Gannon" which helped facilitate his access for nearly 200 times over the last two years. It is nearly impossible that she would have made Gannon such a priority without direction from a supervisor. Would you like to revise your claim that, "I don't involve myself in that process, it's handled at a staff level."[1]

These records appear to confirm our concern that Gannon was treated in a manner that deviated from standard White House procedure for determining who receives press credentials, and to what degree members of the press and public are granted access to the White House complex. In fact, these entry and exit records only raise more questions, as your office has issued conflicting statements about his activities and apparently abused the press pass policy to avoid a full-fledged background investigation and allow Republican propaganda to be disseminated through a counterfeit media operation and a fake reporter.

Mr. McClellan, we have yet to receive any direct communication from your office in response to our repeated requests for information. The American people deserve to know what is happening in the White House Briefing room. It is unacceptable that you continue to deny them this information.

Sincerely,

/s

Rep. Louise Slaughter
Ranking Member
House Rules Committee

Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member
House Judiciary Committee

[Ninong]

While we're on the subject of the White House's relations with the Press Corps, does anyone care to explain this statement:

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make — it would hope — put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see."

—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

[zhenya]

Originally Posted by Ninong

While we're on the subject of the White House's relations with the Press Corps, does anyone care to explain this statement:

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make — it would hope — put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see."

—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

Even my foreign mind can't quite grasp it....

[almostdiva]

Originally Posted by Ninong

P.S. -- Obviously the facts and figures are true. They came directly from the Secret Service but only after they were demanded under the FOIA. Don't worry, the president has said that he will get to the bottom of this as soon as he finishes getting to the bottom of who released the fact that Valerie Plame was a covert CIA agent to that traitorous Bob Novak. Which reminds me that JimmyJeff claimed to have seen that secret CIA memo. He was obviously aware of the fact that Amb. Wilson's wife was a CIA agent when he interviewed him on-air the DAY BEFORE the story broke in the WSJ.

When pigs fly??

UN-BUH-Lievable...

And that quote about the press is pretty good, too. I suppose they don't REALLY speak English in Texas...

[Ninong]

It seems it's a lot easier to get into the White House than it is to get into any of the president's "public" social security town meetings: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...835869,00.html

I wonder if they used the same goons to weed out the "undesirables" at all of their "public" campaign rallies?

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Ninong

Obviously the facts and figures are true. They came directly from the Secret Service...

Oops! My bad!

The records would only reflect days when "Gannon" either checked in or checked out with the Secret Service!

Here are video clips of "Jeff Gannon" participating in White House press briefings on FIVE DAYS when he neither checked in nor out with the Secret Service: http://dailykos.com/story/2005/4/27/85948/0070 His presence in the White House on those days is not even recorded in the Secret Service's log.

Those days do not show up on the records released under the FOIA because the Secret Service was not even aware that he was in the White House. I assume that means that he entered and left the White House complex in the company of some very senior White House official? Mere journalists are required to check in and out and their activities are monitored.

In light of this new information, I feel I must edit my previous question so that it now reads, "Is it necessary to be both a plagiarist AND a prostitute to gain UNLIMITED access to the White House or will one suffice?" One will suffice, two is a royal flush!

[schrocat]

Thank goodness he was just a prostitute, instead of a terrorist\prostitute.

We should count our blessings he was merely a call boy.

Wheeeew.

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by schrocat

Thank goodness he was just a prostitute, instead of a terrorist\prostitute.

We should count our blessings he was merely a call boy.

Wheeeew.

I think it is safe to add terrorist to the list of things that JimmyJeff was not:

List:

• Fake journalist.

• Worked for a fake "news" service that was just a front for GOPUSA.com.

• Fake Marine! The USMC in Quantico states officially that they have no record of a James D. Guckert ever being a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. This was obvious from his stupid "USMCPT" on one of his call-boy websites. He explained, when questioned, that USMCPT stands for U.S. Marine Corps -- Part-time! I have never heard of that one before, have you?

• Not approved for a press pass to the Capitol. Which is why he couldn't apply for a permanent press pass to the White House. "Someone" in the White House authorized temporary day passes for more than 200 visits to the White House, even on days when there were no press events. On some of those visits he was "somewhere" in the White House for more than five hours according to the records that do exist.

• Not a terrorist. OK, I think we can give him that one. He's too stupid to be a real terrorist.

[Ninong]

JimmyJeff GannonGuckert is supposedly going to appear on Bill Maher's show Friday night, April 29th. (tomorrow).

Is he out of his mind?!? I think he's letting all this fame go to his head. Maher is going to kick his $200/hr butt all over the place!

I guess JimmyJeff was concerned that his story wasn't getting the play it deserved. Either that or it's a fiendish plan to divert attention away from DeLay?

[schrocat]

Originally Posted by Ninong

While we're on the subject of the White House's relations with the Press Corps, does anyone care to explain this statement:

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make — it would hope — put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see."

—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

Saw this on Wonkette...

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by schrocat

Saw this on Wonkette...

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."

That was just a typical Bushism is the context of a much more revealing answer. Here is the context:



Q Mr. President, under the law, how would you justify the practice of renditioning, where U.S. agents who brought terror suspects abroad, taking them to a third country for interrogation? And would you stand for it if foreign agents did that to an American here?



THE PRESIDENT: That's a hypothetical, Mark. We operate within the law and we send people to countries where they say they're not going to torture the people.

But let me say something: the United States government has an obligation to protect the American people. It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way. And we will do so within the law, and we will do so in honoring our commitment not to torture people.

He was obviously prepared for this particular line of questioning. His answer would have made George Orwell proud.

We operate within the law because we have redefined what the law is. The AG has issued opinions that the president is not subject to the restraints of any international laws in the discharge of his duties as commander in chief. Therefore, in the president's mind he is perfectly within the law no matter what he does as Commander in Chief provided it is defense of the American people and both the White House Counsel and the Justice Department will back him up on that.

We can thank Prof. John Yoo and former White House Counsel, now AG, Alberto Gonzales for redefining torture: "For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that torture as defined in and proscribed by Sections 2340-2340A, cover only extreme acts. ...Where the pain is physical, it must be of an intensity akin to that which accompanies serious physical injury such as death or organ failure. ...Because the acts inflicting torture are extreme, there is a significant range of acts that though they might constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment fail to rise to the level of torture. ...Finally, even if the interrogation method might violate Section 2340A, necessity of self-defense could provide justifications that would eliminate any criminal liability. http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_l...D_%20Gonz_.pdf

Torture in defense of virtue has always been acceptable to most people. That's why it has been such a favorite tactic of religious zealots over the centuries.

The countries that we have rendered prisoners to are the same countries that we have repeatedly accused of torture. Some of these prisoners were taken to as many as four different countries for interrogation. Condoleezza Rice famously intervened in one particular case and ordered the prisoner released immediately. Actually she ordered him released immediately twice, because the military brass didn't pay attention to her first order three weeks earlier. The guy was picked up by accident and we knew within a few weeks that he was completely innocent but we didn't release him for months after that. He just happens to be a national of one of our allies.

It is revealing that after first denying that we use torture, the president goes on to justify his actions in case anyone wants to read between the lines. It's the old 'ends justify the means' argument. Reminds me of the Catholic Church during the Holy Inquisition being careful not to spill blood because that would have violated canon law. Therefore, they devised all sorts of ingenious methods to break bones and dislocate joints without spilling any blood. We are not torturing people because we have decided that boarding is not torture. Boarding is what the Iranians did to our CIA station chief in Tehran. And they recorded the session and sent the tape to the White House. That's when you strap the person to a board and then tilt the board so that his head is submerged in a tank of water. This is repeated as often as necessary to get the required information. Care must be taken that you do not actually drown the subject. At least not before he talks. Unfortunately, we have killed at least three dozen "subjects" during interrogation so far.

Exposure to extremes of heat and cold, extremely bright flashing lights and extremely loud music are not considered torture by the Bush administration and are specifically authorized. These methods have been used repeatedly. People have been placed naked in small rooms with air-conditioning units blowing directly on them while strobe lights flashed and loud music blared at them. Hundreds of prisoners have been relocated to keep them from talking to the International Red Cross.

The president would have us believe that these methods are necessary to defend the American people. Torture is never necessary. It is a grave immoral act in all circumstances. It is inhuman and beneath a civilized society.

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Ninong

JimmyJeff GannonGuckert is supposedly going to appear on Bill Maher's show Friday night, April 29th. (tomorrow).

Is he out of his mind?!? I think he's letting all this fame go to his head. Maher is going to kick his $200/hr butt all over the place!

I guess JimmyJeff was concerned that his story wasn't getting the play it deserved. Either that or it's a fiendish plan to divert attention away from DeLay?

What a big disappointment! I was hoping JimmyJeff was going to be live in the studio so that the audience could crack up laughing at his responses but he was broadcast via satellite from a remote studio and the entire segment lasted only about six minutes. Maher kept hushing up the studio audience whenever they started laughing. Maher let Gannon make the same little stock comments verbatim that he has made previously this week (e.g., he's surprised that they forgot to invite him to the WHC dinner tonight, especially considering the fact that he has brought more attention to WHCs than anyone else in the past few decades!).

Maher was VERY gentle with him and didn't really challenge anything he said. Instead of really grilling him, he said things like, "Well, Jeff, why don't I let you explain to us what you were doing there in your own words." And then JimmyJeff gave his stock answer that he was selected as a journalist to participate in White House press briefings and there was nothing odd about that. When asked directly why he was selected, he said, "I don't know the answer to that question." He also claimed that he could ask "the tough questions" on occasion.

He gave his stock answer when asked about his former websites: There are many things that are alleged that he's not going to address because they have nothing to do with his job performance as a journalist. He did get off what he thought was a little self-deprecating joke: "Most journalists prostitute themselves AFTER they become journalists."

As far as why he was at the White House on 38 occasions when there were no scheduled press briefings, he said that he meets with lots of different people on the White House staff in the performance of his duties as a journalist. And no, he has no personal relationships with anyone at the White House. Maher: "What were you doing at the White House on all those occasions when there were no scheduled press briefings?" Gannon: "I was being a reporter."

So, all in all, it was a big bust. One of the other guests even commented to Maher that she didn't know he could be so nice. And Maher replied that they had been trying for weeks to get Gannon on the show and he didn't want to rough him up. It turned out to be just another PR appearance for JimmyJeff. If you had your eyes closed, you might have imagined he was being interviewed by one of the actors on Faux News.

[Ninong]

Crooks & Liars has posted the video of JimmyJeff's six minutes of fame on Maher's show: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/04/29.html#a2703

Where the hell is he looking?!? What's with all the eye movements and repeated blinking?

I wonder if anyone has run any of these audio tapes through one of those voice-stress lie detector machines?

:slap:

[schrocat]

From NYDN:


More Gannon fodder

Alleged gay escort Jeff Gannon (né James Dale Guckert) has been taken a lot of heat passing himself off as a White House reporter. But there has been an upside.

Gannon says that some of his harshest critics - "radical gay activists" - have actually come on to him.

His detractors shed their convictions "like a sweater on a hot day," Gannon says in the new issue of Vanity Fair.

The born-again Gannon refused to talk about his sexuality with reporters David Margolick and Richard Gooding but says, "Did I know sin before I knew salvation? You bet! But my life was heading in the right direction. What's interesting about this is now I'm being punished for things I left behind."

Gannon also hints at doing secret work for which he needed White House security clearance, although he refuses to elaborate: "My history isn't exactly linear."





"My history isn't exactly linear" , (linear meaning straight)


Is it just me...or is that the understatement of 05?

[Ninong]

JimmyJeff just won't shut up! I'm sure there are a lot of people in the White House who would love to send him on an all expenses paid vacation somewhere far, far away for a long, long time.

He's trying to turn notoriety into a full-time job ala Paris Hilton. At least Paris has hooked up with someone whose daddy is much, much richer than her daddy, which refutes the claims that she can't add two and two. Looks like she can figure out that one plus one might equal $7.5 billion. And how's this for ya, her boyfriend's name is Paris!

JimmyJeff is so full of himself that anything he says has to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm beginning to doubt that he ever actually laid eyes on the secret CIA memo naming Valerie Plame as a covert agent. His special pal in the White House may have mentioned it to him but I doubt that he actually saw the memo as he previously claimed.