Secret Service Papers Raise Issue of Propaganda, National Security, and Possible

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Secret Service Papers Raise Issue of Propaganda, National

Security, and Possible Sex Scandals in the White House

 

Secret Service Papers Raise Issue of Propaganda, National Security,

and Possible Sex Scandals in the White House; Bush, Old Media Hope No

One Notices

 

Secret Service's Disclosure of " Temporary Appointments " Granted to

" Jeff Gannon " Reveals That the Service Can Only Account for 49 Days of

Security Clearance for Gannon Out of the More Than Two Years He Spent

" Reporting " in the White House Press Corps

By ADVOCATE STAFF

 

We've covered the Gannongate scandal so many times in this space, we

can't, in fact, easily or comprehensively link to our coverage of this

enormous, stunning, and almost criminally under-investigated scandal

without running out twenty or more links in the first paragraph of

this article.

 

Suffice to say that if you begin reading The Nashua Advocate archives

(to be found on the sidebar to the right) on February 16th, 2005, and

continue reading the next month's worth of articles, you'll have a

fairly good primer of where our story stands so far, to include a

coordinated effort between " Gannon " and the G.O.P. to bring down U.S.

Senator Tom Daschle last November; out-and-out lies from the Bush

Administration and the Republican Party of Texas regarding the

scandal; Democratic calls for a Congressional investigation which were

gleefully ignored by the supposedly upright and national

security-conscious Republican Party; and much evidence (see here, for

example) that Gannon was a White House propaganda plant, if not much,

much (and salaciously so) more.

 

[And that's just a taste of what's out there--to appreciate each and

every mind-bending twist and turn in this saga, one really has to

peruse the entire Advocate archives from mid-February to mid-March].

 

So what a story this is: a practicing gay hooker infiltrating the

White House press corps after being hired by a fictional conservative

news service, despite having no journalistic experience or

professional credentials whatsoever, despite using an alias, and

despite failing every possible measure for legitimate entrance into

the hallowed halls of the Bush Administration's secret lair.

 

That is, the White House--which, in fact, we own, not Bush.

 

Now the U.S. Secret Service has revealed damning documents which blow

this already stranger-than-fiction (but wholly true) scandal entirely

out of the water.

 

1. Secret Service Access Control Records which establish that

so-called " reporter " " Jeff Gannon " (real name " James Guckert, "

" working " name " The Bulldog " ; yes, we're serious) entered the

highest-security building in the world--The White House--on dozens of

occasions when there was no journalistic reason for him to be there,

because, in short, no press briefing was being held. That's right, a

practicing, alias-using gay hooker roaming the halls of the White

House, doing God knows what for God knows what reason. Repeatedly. And

what's even better, the Secret Service can't locate many of his " in "

and " out " times for his hours-long forays into the People's House.

Scandal?

 

2. The Secret Service has also now answered written interrogatories

submitted to the agency by Democratic Members of Congress. These

answers contain irrefutable proof that Gannon received extraordinary

and entirely inexplicable special treatment from members of the

Administration in accessing the White House under the dubious--even

incredible--circumstances in which he pitched tent there for more than

two years as a phony reporter and " professional " Bush Administration

propagandist.

 

3. Top progressive news agencies like Raw Story are already starting

to put together some of the pieces of the puzzle in response to this

new evidence from the Secret Service.

 

And the picture isn't pretty.

 

Consider this excerpt from the article linked to above:

 

Guckert made more than two 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. On other days, the

president held photo opportunities.

 

On at least fourteen occasions, Secret Service records show either the

entry or exit time missing. Generally, the existing entry or exit

times correlate with press conferences; on most of these days, the

records show that Guckert checked in but was never processed out.

 

In March 2003, Guckert left the White House twice on days he had never

checked in with the Secret Service. Over the next 22 months, Guckert

failed to check out with the Service on fourteen days. On several of

these visits, Guckert either entered or exited by a different

entry/exit point than his usual one. On one of these days, no briefing

was held; on another, he checked in twice but failed to check out.

 

" I'd be worried if I was the White House and I knew that a reporter

with a day pass never left, " one White House reporter told Raw Story.

" I'd wonder, where is he hiding? It seems like a security risk. "

 

Indeed.

 

In fact, if this were the Clinton White House there would be a Senate

investigation with full subpoena power being undertaken right now.

 

And indeed, the Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Foreign

Relations Committee, U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE)--a man who knows a

thing or two about identifying and investigating grand-scale security

breaches in the White House and in American government--has said

publicly (on television, no less) that he thinks an immediate

investigation is warranted.

 

And that was before this bombshell from the Secret Service, which

establishes Gannongate as, at worst, a massive national security

scandal, at least a stunning propaganda scandal, and quite

possibly--as The Advocate has been speculating longer than just about

anyone, since February 16th--a homosexual sex scandal involving top

members of the Bush Administration.

 

Only the light of inquiry will uncover the filth, graft, media

manipulation, and possible criminal activity which undergirds this story.

 

So, any bets on whether the Moral Majority in Congress will be willing

to investigate a gay hooker with a false name traipsing through the

maximum-security White House without A) a care in the world, or B) any

reason whatsoever to be there, particularly since he's claimed

publicly (which we now know to be a lie) that no one in the Bush

Administration did him any special favors?

 

Oh, but you bet your ass they did him special favors, and not merely

in allowing him to be one of the few reporters called on at the

President's (ultra-rare) January 26th, 2005 press conference.

 

The Bush Administration, and no one else, made this now-discredited

reporter famous and violated traditional, long-in-place White House

credentialing and security policies in order to do it.

 

Why?

 

What precisely did they get in return, from a gay hooker with

absolutely no professional credentials in any other sphere of operation?

 

Where's a rocket scientist when you need one?

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