Secret Service lies about Gannon

[donsu]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/03/secret-service-lies-today-about.html

The US Secret Service lied to members of Congress today in a letter responding to concerns about GannonGuckert's access to the White House.

In the letter, as reported by Raw Story, "there was no deviation from Secret Service standards and procedures" in order to give GannonGuckert access to the White House.

But this a flat out lie.

-snip- (here they give 5 reasons)

The bottom line is that GG was given a de facto hard pass to the White House, even though he only applied for a day pass. And if the Secret Service is now going to tell us that this is following procedures, then Congress and the media should demand an immediately investigation of just what those procedures really are. Because GannonGuckert was permitted to metaphorically "walk around the metal detectors" of the White House, and someone should be asking why.
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[peacetalksforall]

1. Kick.. The motto of the right wing cabal/admin is:

NO LIE OR THEFT IS TOO BLATANT OR TOO MUCH OF AN INSULT TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE WHO WE DESPISE AND WHOSE LIVELIHOOD WE WILL DESTROY AND WHOSE PRIVACY WE WILL OWN. BRING ON THE NON-OWNERSHIP SOCIETY FOR OUR CONTROL AND MANIPULATION!

[cestpaspossible]

2. You snipped out the salient points

1. GannonGuckert (GG) had a "day pass" to the White House, not a "hard pass." A day pass gives you one day access, a hard pass gives you repeated, unlimited, ongoing, and regular access to the White House.

2. But using a day pass, GannonGuckert in fact received repeated, unlimited, ongoing and regular access to the White House for over a two year period, even though he never was given a hard pass. I.e., GG was given a de facto hard pass without going through the proper rigorous background check required for such a pass.

3. Why does this matter? It matters because there must be some national security reason why hard pass reporters are required to get 3-month FBI background checks. Presumably the reason is that hard pass reporters, unlike day pass reporters who only go to the White House once (or at best, once in a very blue moon), will be spending a lot of regular time in the White House, mingling with senior officials as high as the president, over an extended and ongoing period. That gives hard pass reporters the kind of access that could make them a security risk if we didn't know for a fact that they're good people. That's why hard pass reporters are required to get the 3-month FBI background check. To make sure there's nothing in their background, or present, to suggest they could be, or have been, compromised, or in any other way pose a threat.

4. But GG got the same kind of ongoing, regular and intimate access to the White House as any hard pass reporter - and thus GG posed the same potential risk to national security as any hard pass reporter - yet GG was never forced to get a hard pass, and thus never required to get the hard pass 3-month FBI background check (during which the Secret Service would have found that GG was involved in an ongoing criminal enterprise (prostitution) and that he had a $20,000 default tax judgment against him from the state of Delaware (both things that could make him a security risk)).

5. So, in conclusion, GG got hard pass access to the White House simply using a day pass.

Those aren't five reasons, they are five steps in an argument.

It all boils down to 5: procedures were violated by repeatedly giving a day pass to someone who did not qualify for a hard pass.

[fooj]

3. He was given unprecedented access-

Now the SS is lying about that access. So...who's giving the orders? IMO-that's the question.

[Inland]

4. The scandal is not what laws were broken, it is that this is legal

and available as an operating procedure.

The Secret Service just allows a political whitehouse to carve out exceptions to protection.

Just as law doesn't reach Gitmo, and the constitution doesn't apply an "enemy combatant", this administration just creates a loophole that it can use at will to get Guckert in and keep M. Dowd out.

[grasswire]

5. and now...

...the prostitute has threatened with blackmail the ranking member of the SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE. If this were happening in Britain, the fracas would be 24/7 news.