Jeff Gannon, September 11th, Operation Iraqi Freedom, MIHOP: proof?

[UL_Approved]

This came to me this morning.

The homosexual prostitution is the sleazy part of the story, and is an incredible scandal on its own.

But the thing now bothering me is the pattern of blatant intelligence failure and cover up.

We know about the Richard Clarke memo on Osama Bin Laden. We know about the senior field agent in the FBI that brought forth concerns about flight school students. We know about the French intelligence agencies that voiced and shared concerns over the Taliban with the United States prior to September 11th.

But this brought forth the idea in my head that the Gannon story is a sort of proof positive that the Bush plan for the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and other police state formalities are total and utter failures. I've long thought that this country would need another major terrorist attack to see that Bush has failed at even protecting the lives of United States citizens. This would clinch to the American public that Bush doesn't have the ability to be a good leader.

And then along came a bombshell: Jeff Gannon/James Daniels Guckert. This guy was let past the United States Secret Service without any check as to the nature of his history. Running an alias, having back taxes, partaking and/or managing male prostitution services, and having ties to a news organization that is a front for not one, but two partisan activist groups (GOPUSA and Millions Of Americans). This guy managed to get regular press passes to White House briefings. He even got to go in front of the President to ask questions. And to top it all off, there are still suspicions that he had a HARD PASS to press meetings.

But the thing that caught me off guard was a comment made on another DU thread. The poster here made an observation about Shock and Awe. The post:

The reason we struck the first assault on Baghdad was because we had intel on where Saddam was and needed to act quickly. Does anyone remember this?
Gannon knew FOUR HOURS before the first assault that it was going to happen.
If both of these are true, why did we wait until Saddam had time to leave?

This represents an insight into the scope of intelligence failures surrounding Gannon/Guckert. I would ask of DUers to please respond to this thread with other observations, comments, corrections, and other valuable input on this subject.

[Justyce]

1. One minor comment/question:

We are all assuming he had to undergo a Secret Service background check that must've failed to catch who he was, etc., and blaming White House security, but isn't it possible that he was given approval from higher up & allowed to bypass the background check?

[Lerkfish]

5. I would say its a certainty he was greased

hearing about the difficulties presented to existing, reputable and well known WH correspondents trying to get passes, its a certainty that Gluckert was greased.
That means connections HIGHER than the normal security (read: secret service) so that a background check was greased OVER the normal congressional/SS requirements.
That can ONLY be the White House.

you can shuffle the deck eight ways till sunday, but the fact remains the only agency with enough clout to bypass normal secret service security checks is the white house itself.

IMHO

[mattclearing]

2. You are absolutely correct.

People need to look into the strike timeline, but as I recall it, that was exactly as it happened.

I'd guess the Saddam thing was pure bullshit...say he's possibly dead, and start off with positive media momentum.

[tanyev]

3. Richard Clarke memo.

You may want to fix that.

[UL_Approved]

7. Thanks a bunch

I don't know how I missed that. Thank you.

[Al-CIAda]

4. Gannon's name pops up on key events more than Forrest Gump!

[Roland99]

6. I think he was just being played to spread the Propagannon

[DulceDecorum]

8. If memory serves

Bush was in deep trouble because the newspapers were about to announce that Gore won.
Rove managed to bully them into delaying the announcements until Bush won the trifecta.

Richard Clarke is part and parcel of this whole thing al la Quinn & Gillespie. Clarke gets his much of his info from Steve Emerson and Rita Katz who are of EXTREMELY dubious provenance.

Thomas Barnett is the trigger.
He works/worked for/worked with
Cantor Fitzgerald.

Go have a look at his website
and see the crap he has written about NewRuleSets.
Thomas Barnett is the nexus of September 11
and the resulting attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Look at the work he was doing for 2YK.
Everything is there.
A terrorist attack, NYSE closed down, etc.
Only they were unable to pull it off in 2000 so they launched their product in the fall of 2001.

Go have a look for yourself.
After all, you should know by now not to trust anonymous posters on the internets.

[UL_Approved]

9. Another thing to consider

This DU thread talks about one of the 9/11 witnesses as being Bobby Eberle. Yet again more inside reporting of news...