Just came across something curious in "GannonGate"

[justiceischeap]

From Outlet Radio Network:

If the "Jeff Gannon" story strikes you as similar to the Craig Spence prostitution scandal in the Reagan/Bush Administration, you aren't alone.

Spence was a conservative lobbyist during the Reagan-Bush years. The New York Times called him "Washington's ultimate power broker." He was also running a gay prostitution ring which employed adolescent boys. As perks of the job, he treated his boys to after-hour tours of the White House. In The Washington Times of August 9, 1989, Spence "hinted the tours were arranged by top level" persons, including Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor Donald Gregg, whose name also figures prominently in the October Surprise story. The paper added that "Spence, according to friends, was also carrying out homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA."


The story soon disappeared entirely and Washington and the media proceeded to pretend as though nothing had ever happened. According to a Washington Times reporter, the paper trail was quickly covered up. Some 20,000 documents pertaining to the case were sealed by court order and the U.S. Attorney’s office issued a gag order on the release of information. By the time that Craig Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel less than five months after the story first broke, he had been all but forgotten. He had earlier told a friend: "I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won’t be."

Again to a previously asked question: How well does Karl Rove know GOPUSA's Bobby Eberle? Rove rarely does interviews, but somehow managed to find time for "Jeff Gannon's" boss, Texas Republican Bobby Eberle. A couple of months prior, Jeff Gannon claimed access to a highly confidential intelligence memo he used to smear Joe Wilson and whose source he said he could not reveal. How did this former prostitute manage to obtain a highly confidential document widely known to have originated from the White House?

http://www.outletradio.com/grantham/archives/001639.php

I had completely forgotten about the whole Reagan/Spence thing. Could it be for some reason Karl is pulling a trick out of the history bag?

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I hadn't realized that the Spence guy had been suicided. eom

[Hissyspit]

5. I read an article about the 'suicide' years and years ago & have never...

forgotten it. The author was very skeptical it was suicide. But I didn't think of the parallels with the "Gannon" story until this board started talking about it.

[sellitman]

2. The plot thickens!

These folks will stop at nothing. Great post!

[Sydnie]

3. Check out these threads

We were talking about this the other day too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3080047

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3085090#3085654

edit to add second link

[justiceischeap]

4. Oops! I'm not used to having the search function

Need to remember I can search now.

Thanks for the links.

[Hissyspit]

6. Where's the Search function?

I know you can search for your own postings by most recent date on DailyKos. You can do that here?

[Sydnie]

7. You can't search unless you make a donation

It's one of the perks of donating and having a star next to your name.

[Hissyspit]

8. I have donated. Does it have to be a certain amount?

Twice on Feb. 2. I have the email receipts to prove it.

[MissWaverly]

9. search ?

Hope you have your answer, I too have trouble with the search feature, I too have donated but I don't have a star next to my name,
you have to go to your personal page, where it says bookmarks, etc
and the search feature is at the top, just click it and follow along.
Hope this helps!

[Hissyspit]

10. O.K., Thanks. I emailed Skinner about my star. It's still telling me...

I have to be a donor to use the Search feature.

[Sydnie]

11. I don't remember if you get an email when you donate to DU or not

but if you donated to DU within the last year and you didn't get a star, you should contact Skinner about it.

I know that the search feature never worked for me until I donated. I don't know what I would do without it now though.

[Toots]

12. Okay so what I gather from this is now Gannon's life is in danger

We can't have Rove outed as a Homo now can we? Rove gave Gannon the material on Plame while having an evening either with Gannon or with the young boys that Gannon supplied for Rove. Rove is a very sick individual. Not because of his homosexuality but because of his intense guilt and fear over it. Gannon should come clean before it is too late. By this time next year he will have "committed suicide."