Exactly what does "Jeff Gannon" have to do with Valerie Plame? nt

[Eric J in MN]

nt

[WLKjr]

1. That's what I want to know

[ewagner]

4. Seems like

Gannon interviewed Wilson during the height of the original controversy....during the interview with Wilson, he made reference to the secret memo in the CIA talking about Valerie.....he was that STUPID!!!!

[WLKjr]

6. Think he may have been the leaker?

considering cnn is sort of talking good about gannon? :shrug:

[ClintonTyree]

11. CNN is talking "good" about Gannon?

I refuse to watch that POS channel. Can you fill in the blanks for me? Thanks.

[housewolf]

13. No...

The leaker was an administration employee, not a (so-called) journalist.

(So-called) Gannon was one of the journalists subpoened by the investoragor to testify so he may have been one of the (so-called) jouranlists the leaker contacted.

[SmokingJacket]

16. But someone higher up must have leaked to HIM.

And he may talk, since he's not a REAL journalist, he shouldn't get protection for his sources. (He has a "degree" from a $50 seminar for conservatives who want to be journalists.)

[tsuki]

10. Did he get it from OxyRush? Seems OxyRush wrote some of his

material.

[gristy]

2. nt

nt

[mzmolly]

3. See here.

http://democrats.com/gannon

[rox63]

5. See this DKos link

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/30/9415/11717

[Canuckistanian]

7. Un-friggin'-believable

From Kos:

GOPUSA, while spouting the usual GOP talking points, has on occasion taken it a bit too far. In November of 2003 it posted an anti-semetic piece entitled "Satan Lives in George Soros" by a pseudonymous author known as "Sartre." Yes, folks, these are the kind of "agencies" that are getting White House reporter credentials these days.

[mzmolly]

14. Oh my word!

:wow:

[ClintonTyree]

8. Probably everything....................

it's quite possible he's the one behind the entire "leak" to Novak. If it can be documented, he should be put to death for treason.

[FreepFryer]

9. Here's a concise summary of the CIA angle from 'spiderleaf' at dkos.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/191334/0754

An an excerpt from a post by kos.

"The bottom line" by kos Wed Feb 9th, 2005 at 15:31:47 PST

Why should we care about Jeff Gannon?

A potential male prostitute gets White House credentials using a fake name, provides McClellan a welcome ideological lifeline during press conferences, and somehow gets access to classified CIA documents that outs an undercover CIA operative.

White House-credentialed fake news reporter "Jeff Gannon" from fake news agency "Talon News" was cited by the Washington Post as having the only access to an internal CIA memo that named Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Gannon, in a question posed to Wilson in an October 2003 interview, referred to the memo (to which no other news outlet had access, according to the Post). Gannon subsequently has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury looking into the Plame outing. {...}

[Eric J in MN]

12. thanks (nt)

nt

[ClintonTyree]

15. Like I said..................

if he's behind the leak, and it can be documented........death for treason. Bush hasn't sentenced anyone to death for years now. He's got to be foaming at the mouth to snuff someone, even if it is one of his own.
We used to have a saying on the farm when I was a kid; it's like a dog that kills chickens. Once he gets the taste in his mouth....................you can never break that dog from doing it again.