Jeff Gannon better finish his book soon....

[sabra]

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http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200502140009

Gannon won't give clear answer on whether he's seen classified memo on Wilson-Plame case

Former Talon News Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent Jeff Gannon (aka James D. Guckert) told Editor & Publisher in a February 11 article that he "never said" he "had ... or had seen" a classified memo written by a State Department official and purportedly summarizing a meeting in which former clandestine CIA operative Valerie Plame allegedly suggested that her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, be sent to Niger to investigate reports that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from the west African nation. But in previous interviews, Gannon has left a different impression.

The Editor & Publisher article stated that Gannon "threw into question media accounts suggesting that he had seen a classified CIA document critical to the Plame case, saying he had made references to the 'internal memo,' but adding, 'I never said I had it or had seen it.' But when asked if he had in fact seen it, he declined to say."

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Most recently, on the February 11 edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, Gannon strongly suggested he had seen the memo in his explanation of why Justice Department officials had interviewed him as part of the leak investigation:

GANNON: And the FBI did come to interview me. They were interested in where -- how I knew or received a copy of a confidential CIA memo that said that Valerie Plame suggested that Joe Wilson be sent on this mission, something that everybody -- they have all vigorously denied but is, in effect, true.

BLITZER: So they didn't make you go testify before the grand jury?

GANNON: No.

BLITZER: Do you have to reveal how you got that memo?

GANNON: No.

BLITZER: They didn't ask you?

GANNON: Well, the FBI kept asking. I said, well, look, I'm a journalist, I can't --

BLITZER: You didn't tell them?

GANNON: Yes. Can't divulge that. And they accepted that, and I've never been asked again.

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[tx_dem41]

1. Blitzer actually interviewed him?

Sheesh...Aren't his 15 minutes up yet?

[sabra]

2. this was from Feb during his 15 minutes....

but seems much more relevant these days.

[tx_dem41]

3. Got it. I agree. Its relevant.

Didn't mean to rain on your post.

[sabra]

4. no worries at all

JimmyJeff is totally cought up in this...

[Kurovski]

5. If sex can be added to the mix here, all the better.

media whores get oodles of revenue for carrying salacious stories, Americans actually pay attention and retain the info, and Democracy in a America gets a fighting chance.

Weird. Maybe it's the full moon, but things seem almost surreal.

[neverforget]

6. All this scandal needs is some sex, and Jeff Gannon/Guckert is just

the man to provide it! Gay prostitute sex to boot!

Oh the humanity! :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[insane_cratic_gal]

7. Now when did they out Gannon?

LOL makes you wonder doesn't it.. Perhaps he was a lap dog then all of Sudden photos of in skivvies show up.

Either way I think he's lying through his teeth. He needs too badly to be associated with being a "journalist" Yet pieces he had written were stolen from other journalist?

He has attention whore written all over him

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. IF he saw said memo and didn't divulge his source

Where would he be right now? He was pumping out talking points as fast as he could get paid... other than that, he was an expendable idiot pretending to be somebody.

[Kurovski]

9. How expendable he was might depend on how enamored

a White House higher-up is/was of Jeff.

Maybe Gannon should be looking over his shoulder, or have a letter ready to be mailed to the DA's office.

Geez, I don't think I've ever been this gossipy here, but by gosh, I think something is finally going to happen with all this.