Gannon/Gerket and the Franklin coverup?

[TrustingDog]

http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm

I'm wondering if he may have been one of those boys visiting the WH or in some other way involved. There most likely isn't a relationship here, but my spidey senses compelled me to post this anyway.

anyone with lexus/nexus care to explore?

[David__77]

1. "Franklin coverup?"

The only time I ever heard that term was from the LaRouche organization. That does not discredit it, though...

[seemslikeadream]

3. Conspiracy of Silence...MUST SEE!!!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=392459

The Franklin Cover-up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2935337

[David__77]

7. Is this book about the same "Franklin coverup?"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963215809/104-3191836-7923124

[seemslikeadream]

8. yes

[DulceDecorum]

9. A different Franklin, a different tour

Top Pentagon official and ardent neocon Doug Feith, boss of suspected spy for Israel Larry Franklin, has contended for years that the U.S. needed to expunge Saddam Hussein because the guy was a ruthless and horrible dictator.
<snip>

Feith's son is a student there too. That must be one reason that this May 16, while the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal was front-page news, and Feith was in the middle of it as the guy who had helped loosen control on interrogation "techniques," he led a group of kids from the school on a private Pentagon tour that included a rare look at Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld's office.
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000248.php

[TrustingDog]

4. the link is a scan to a front page headline.

sure was real enough in 1989, but the story mysteriously died away. surprise, surprise.

anyone here know all the known names Geckert went by and how old he is?

[Straight Shooter]

14. Gannon is 47. He would have been "too old" in 1989.

That doesn't mean he did not have some sort of fringe involvement, or enough knowledge gained through his extracurricular activities to worm his way in the WH press conferences. Try to imagine some big honcho attempting to impress Jim/Jeff with indiscreet "pillow talk." Loose lips sink ships.

Interesting ...

[TrustingDog]

5. fourth story down at this link:

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

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."

[realFedUp]

10. and RWers were up in arms about coffees during Clinton/Gore....

snip-
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.

(Gads, these guys pulled back the curtains
for most of us forever...)

[seemslikeadream]

2. Do you remember when Karl Schwartz was posting here

KWBS (96 posts) Tue Oct-19-04 05:43 AM
Response to Reply #170

193. The Franklin Story and more


This one is still embedded in DC but there are more, coming from two directions.

We have a bunch of sick, twisted people in DC


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2504341#2510523

[hootinholler]

15. Good grief!

What a dense thread! Thanks for pointing it out.

-Hoot

[understandinglife]

18. http://www.propagandamatrix.com/141003conspiracyofsilence.html

Just up-thread from #193 you find this link.

Interesting.



DO YOU ENJOY BEING A CITIZEN OF THE ROGUE SUPER_POWER?"

[understandinglife]

19. Why did KWBS stop posting at DU?

Thank you.


BE THE BU$H OPPOSITION; 24/7

[Warpy]

6. Empire is always like this

with machinations and corruption at the top, and the unwashed, underfed masses being blissfully unaware of it all.

Read Suetonius some time. This bunch is really no different.

[wishlist]

11. Gannon claims he met Bush twice at two White House Christmas parties

There is an interview done with him this week where he said he didn't think Bush knew who he was but that he had met him at two White House Christmas parties. There was a thread with link to the interview earlier today. I am trying to find it again.

I am curious to know who invited him to the parties and if he was there along with other 'journalists' or press people or if these parties were strictly for Republican party faithful.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. So how did Freeper Jeff get on the guest list?

Inquiring minds would like to know?

[goodhue]

12. excellent question

Many players in Bush I white house, are also involved with Bush II.
15 years ago is not that long ago. Yet I'd forgotten all about that call boys at white house scandal.

[TrustingDog]

17. Craig Spence was Koppel's friend?

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

vat's this?????

David McGowan writes that one of the White House tours "occurred just after Spence stopped by the Nightline studio to see his friend, Ted Koppel. Spence reportedly introduced Koppel to a 15-year-old boy, whom Koppel later claimed Spence had introduced as his son. Koppel though had been a close friend for over 20 years and surely knew that Spence did not have a teenage son."
Any wonder why this scandal - a sex scandal, even - died one of the quickest and quietest of deaths? Only briefly, and not everywhere, was it was front page news. As when it broke, on June 29, 1989:

[goodhue]

13. kick