Gannon Update: Looks Like the Lefty Bloggers Came Up EmptyThis
interview in E&P knocks over some of the justifications the lefty bloggers and commenters here have offered in defense of their swarming on Jeff Gannon:
Guckert said that contrary to many press reports, he was never subpoenaed by the special prosecutor and has never testified before a grand jury in the case. But he said he was interviewed by two FBI agents in his home for about 90 minutes last year.So much for the "treason" charges.
"I requested clearance each day via an e-mail to the White House Press office the night before. I gave them my professional name, my legal name, my social security number, my address and phone number, and the news service where I worked," he said. "I assumed that there was some kind of cursory check that they do, but did not know what. They never asked me for more information." He said he usually went to press briefings there “at least once a week," or more.
On those days, he said, "I would go to the guard gate and show my driver's license with my legal name, and they looked me up on the computer and let me in." He said he would receive a day pass, which has no name -- Gannon or Guckert -- on it.So much for obtaining press passes under an assumed name.
You know, I wonder if at the end of the day, all they're going to be left with is that he's gay and he set up some gay porn sites. Also note how outcoming Gannon has been, giving interviews on NPR, TV and to E&P.
Bill Ardolino at
InDC Journal has a look at Gannon's involvement in the Plame affair and comes to the same conclusion.
Tom Maguire's on the
same beat.
Now, for a bit of bonus hilarity, Intrepid Reporter Jeff Gannon also asked Amb. Wilson about a Nick Kristof column written on Oct. 11; this appears in the Kos timeline at Nov. 3, 2003.These lefty bloggers seem to be about as good as CBS News at sniffing out the truth.
