Gannongate: It's Worse Than You Think
Bush's press office gave Jim Guckert access, even knowing his only
credentials were

from the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0223-
26.htm

Published on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 by Salon.com

by Eric Boehlert

When the press first raised questions about why Jim Guckert had been
awarded access to the White House press room for two years running
while he worked for Talon News, critics charged that Talon, with its
amateurish standards and close working ties to Republican activists,
did not qualify as a legitimate news organization. It turns out the
truth is even stranger: Guckert was waved into the White House while
working for an even more blatantly partisan organization, GOPUSA.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan originally told reporters
that Guckert was properly allowed into press briefings because he
worked for an outlet that "published regularly." But that's when the
questions were about Talon.

More recently McClellan offered up a new rationale. Asked by Editor
and Publisher magazine how the decision was made to allow a GOPUSA
correspondent in, McClellan said, "The staff assistant went to verify
that the news organization existed." (Emphasis added.)

That, apparently, was the lone criterion the press office used when
Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) approached it in February 2003 seeking a
pass for White House briefings. Not yet working for Republican-
friendly Talon News, which came into existence in April 2003,
Guckert, using an alias and with no journalism experience whatsoever,
was writing on a voluntary basis for a Web site dedicated to
promoting Republican issues.

To determine whether Guckert would gain entrance to the press room,
normally reserved for professional journalists working for
legitimate, recognized and independent news organizations, the press
office simply logged on to the Internet and confirmed that
GOPUSA "existed," and then quickly approved Guckert's access. In a
White House obsessed, at least publicly, with security and where
journalists cannot even move between the White House and the nearby
Old Executive Building without a personal escort, Guckert's lenient
treatment was likely unprecedented.

Yet, if there's one other person who did manage to receive the same
type of kid-glove treatment from the White House press office, it was
Guckert's boss at GOPUSA and later at Talon News, Bobby Eberle. A
Texas-based Republican activist and a delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 2000, Eberle founded Talon News after he
became concerned that the name GOPUSA might appear to have a "built-
in bias." With no journalism background, he too was able to secure a
White House press pass, in early 2003, on the strength of
representing GOPUSA, dedicated to "spreading the conservative
message throughout America."

This is not how the White House press office has traditionally
worked. "When I was there we didn't let political operatives in. It
was completely contrary to what the press room should be used for,"
says Joe Lockhart, who served as White House press secretary to
President Clinton during his second term.

Asked what would have happened if a reporter from a clearly partisan
operation, say "Democrats Today," had requested a White House press
pass, Lockhart said that if the chief of the Democratic National
Committee were attending an event at the White House, then perhaps
the Democrats Today reporter might be allowed in for that one
day. "But to be admitted as a reporter and sit in a chair and act
like a reporter" for months on end the way Guckert did? "No," said
Lockhart, "that's not within the realm of what [is] proper."

Guckert and Eberle remain at the center of the scandal. When liberal
bloggers revealed that Guckert, who posed reliably friendly questions
to administration officials, had recently offered his services online
as a gay male escort, the questions for the White House only became
more uncomfortable.

Guckert first came to national attention when he asked President Bush
a question at his Jan. 26 press conference. Guckert's query, in which
he ridiculed Democratic leaders for having "divorced themselves from
reality," was what initially raised the ire of liberals. It
was not how an openly Republican partisan got inside the White House
press room, because partisans have been there for years.

Lockhart recalls having been confronted with a similar question of
White House access regarding veteran Baltimore, Md., radio host
Lester Kinsolving, who for decades has pitched eccentric, long-winded
and usually conservative-leaning questions inside the briefing room.
(Kinsolving is currently recuperating from triple-bypass surgery.)
Lockhart thought it was inequitable that Kinsolving was virtually the
only local radio show host with daily access. "The issue got kicked
up to my level. I thought it was fundamentally unfair, and it was
clear that he was an annoyance to everyone in the room. And frankly
we should have shut him down. But I knew if we kicked him out it
would be a big story with the right-wing press, and I didn't need
that."

Unlike Guckert, though, Kinsolving has an authentic background in
journalism, having worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and the
Indianapolis Star. Talon's defenders suggest that it too is a
legitimate news outlet. But providing some insight into how it
operates, Eberle told the New York Times last week that he rarely
monitored Guckert's White House work. "Jeff did his thing. I did my
thing," Eberle said. In other words, it appears that Guckert, who
often cut and pasted White House press releases and posted
them on Talon as "news," did not even have an editor.

As Media Matters for America noted, Talon "apparently consists of
little more than Eberle, Gannon, and a few volunteers."

Just how blatantly the White House press office looked the other way
in regard to Guckert and his dubious status as a legitimate reporter
comes into stark relief when examining his attempt to secure a
similar press pass to cover Capitol Hill. Guckert submitted his
application in December 2003 to the Standing Committee of
Correspondents, a press group in charge of handing out credentials.
In April 2004, the committee denied Guckert's request. Writing to
Guckert, committee chairman Jim Drinkard outlined three clear
deficiencies in Guckert's application:

1) "Committee guidelines require that on-line publications 'must
charge a market rate fee for subscription or access, or carry paid
advertising at current market rates.' You have not demonstrated to
the committee's satisfaction that Talon News has any paid
subscribers, that paid client newspapers publish Talon News stories,
or that it is supported by advertising."

2) "The application for accreditation to the press galleries states
that 'members of the press shall not engage in lobbying or paid
advertising, publicity, promotion, work for any individual, political
party, corporation, organization, or agency of the Federal
Government.' Talon News has not demonstrated to the satisfaction of
the committee that there is a separation from GOPUSA."

3) "Gallery rules and the application state that the principal income
of correspondents must be obtained from news correspondence intended
for publication in newspapers or news services. The committee feels
that paying a single reporter a 'stipend' does not meet the intent of
the rule."

The White House, in contrast, said that as long as Talon News or
GOPUSA "existed," Guckert was free to attend its press briefings.
Yet, in the past, a reporter seeking a permanent White House press
pass has had to first secure credentials to cover Capitol
Hill. Without those, the White House would not submit the application
for a background check. But even though Guckert failed to secure
Capitol Hill credentials, the White House waved him into press
briefings for nearly two years using what's called a day pass.

Those passes are designed for temporary use by out-of-town reporters
who need access to the White House, not for indefinite use by
reporters who flunk the Capitol Hill test.

To obtain a day pass during the Clinton administration, a
reporter "had to make the case as to why that day was unique and why
[he] had to cover the White House from inside the gates instead of
outside," Lockhart says.

So the mystery remains: How did Guckert, with absolutely no
journalism background and working for a phony news organization,
manage to adopt the day-pass system as his own while sidestepping a
thorough background check that might have detected his sordid past?

That's the central question the White House refuses to address. And
like its initial explanation that Guckert received his press pass the
same way other journalists do, the notion first put out by White
House officials that they knew little or nothing about GOPUSA/Talon
News, its correspondent Guckert or its founder Eberle has also melted
away. Instead, we now know, former White House press secretary Ari
Fleischer personally spoke with Eberle about GOPUSA, so concerned was
Fleischer that it was not an independent organization. (Eberle
convinced Fleischer that it was.)

Additionally, Guckert attended the invitation-only White House press
Christmas parties in 2003 and 2004, and last holiday season, in a
personal posting on GOPUSA, Eberle thanked Karl Rove for
his "assistance, guidance, and friendship."

© 2005 Salon.com

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Keep announcing this scandal and the even more horrifying Laurence
King pedophile ring and the snuff film at the Bohemian Grove as
reported in DeCamp's book and the Washington Times at the Reagan/Bush
White House.

7th Fire.com is a good source and the sexual blackmail of Bush Sr. of
both Republicans and Democrats from his involvement with the King
pedophile ring and Bush, Senior's implication in the Reagan
assassination need to be reported as well.

Don't let up, keep writing the media and letting more people know
about the reasons for CIA Director William Colby's very suspicious
drowning death and the disappearance and death of those investigating
the Bush pedophile ring and his own pedophilia and the imprisonment,
death or disappearance of those children who were abused and the many
therapists and social workers who brought the complaint to the
investigator who was murdered.

People need to know the sickness and satanic connections of the Bush
family. Neil Bush's dinner with the brother of Reagan's attempted
assassin, John Hinkley the night of the attempt. Infowars.com link
to Reuters' story. CNN executive recent quit after announcing at a
bigwig meeting that journalists in Iraq were being targeted by
soldiers at bush regime's order, esp. Reuters and Arab and Indian
journalists.

http://www.steamshovelpress.com/offlineillumination12.html
Both Bush and his father are serial killers, type into search engine
Franklin Coverup about the child prostitution ring that Bush Senior
frequented to entrap Republican and some Democrats into blackmailing
them for votes and senior's own pedophilia (bi-sexual) and the snuff
films using children at Bohemian Grove reported on the fourwinds
website.

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%
20History/interview_with_john_decamp.htm

www.skolnicksreport.com "The Chandra Levy Affair".

"Hell Ranch" by Clifford Linedecker
Programmed to Kill

This book will explain a thing or two about why the world seems a
very dark place at the moment. If you require further convincing of
the pure heart of darkness, or if you thought you understood real
politics this book is for you.

It is also a book for those who want the truth, and can take it. Who
are willing to expose themselves to the real evils of this world, and
hopefully be better equipped to deal with them?

But I digress, on the authours website
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you can find some more information on the book.

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Stunning Expose , December 7, 2004

Reviewer: Steveddd "steveddd" (Miami Beach, FL USA)
David McGowan bills the book on his website (The Center for an
Informed America), as the book of the century. I nearly started to
laugh, but Mr. McGowan may very well be correct in his `modest'
assessment. The book is meticulously researched (nearly 500
references) and the authors' knowledge of occultism, elitism,
psychology and Satanism combines for the most stunning exposes of
governmental corruption and cover-up you will
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cover-up, Bohemian
Grove, MK-Ultra, the Manson gang, Marc Dutroux and much, much more.

This book would be an instant #1 Best Seller if it were to get the
exposure it deserves.

Unfortunately, Programmed to Kill, will never be on the shelf of any
of the big outlets and
that is a crime in itself. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see this
one go out of print in short order considering the implications and
the indictment it is on the US and other governmental `crime
fighting' agencies, their media outlets and the force driving it all.


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bush/2003/05C3-10-11-03-bush-family-illuminati-rituals.html

Bush Human Sacrifices Sedila, Colorado & NWO Agenda by Stew Webb
Federal Whistleblower
BUSH SATANIC HUMAN SACRIFICE
December 21, 2001
June 21, 2002
SUMMER--WINTER SOLSTICE
KNIGHT'S TEMPLARS
BUSH'S DOING SATANIC WORSHIP
"TIFFANY LAMP MEETINGS"
December 21, 2001 and June 21, 2002
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Pod People redux CIA complicity in the Hariri murder

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