Investigate Jeff Gannon? What For?
RadicalRuss The Raw Story | A rational voice - Judiciary Committee quashes Democrats' effort to demand credentialing info on "Gannon" The House Judic
The House Judiciary Committee voted against adopting a resolution demanding Bush agencies turn over all credentialing information related to James D. Guckert 21-10, the discredited conservative reporter and prostitute who wrote under the nom de guerre "Jeff Gannon".
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the ranking Democrat on the committee, said the resolution was imperative to ensuring that the line between reporters and activists remains clear.
"If we don't investigate this matter thoroughly," Conyers said, "where and when will be draw the line? I plead with my committee members in the Judiciary to support this very plain but necessary [amendment]."
[Rep.] F. James Sensenbrenner [(R-WI)], chairman of the committee, said he felt that "the Administration, in my opinion, has substantially investigated this matter."
"The Secret Service has determined that Mr Guckert did not pose a danger to the President or his family," Sensenbrenner said.
How does a man gain press access to the White House for two years straight without undergoing the rigorous three-month FBI background check required for a hard press pass? Who got this guy in and circumvented normal security checks? Sheesh, if a three-year-old girl gets on an airplane with a pocketknife, you're not worried that she might hijack the plane, you're worried about how that pocketknife got through your screening process.
The Republicans closed ranks and voted along party lines. Nothing to see here, move along. Nobody's even curious as to how an internet gay male hooker and tax dodger couging up partisan softball questions while writing for a GOP front organization disguised as "news" managed to get into the White House press briefings for two years, even though accredited journalists like Maureen Dowd, writing for esteemed news organizations like the New York Times, failed to get in.
Who did he know? Or more tellingly, who did he blow? Perhaps Gannon has some real dirt on some of these hyper-repressed Repugnican self-loathing gay homophobic closet cases.
Move along, nothing to see here. Now, let's get to the bottom of the issue of steroids in baseball, that's of monumental national importance! [Click here for full post...]