So why did Guckert use Gannon as alias...Joe Conason & Swift Boat Liars...

[KoKo]

The name Gannon kept bothering me, like ringing a bell. This may be totally off the wall but the coincindence of the name Gannon... Maybe the name Gannon just flew out of a hat for Gurkert...but don't they say "criminals use aliases" which mean something to them?

Conason's article, connection to Swift Boat Liars, Department of Justice Employees, Elections Investigations and International dealings in Asia, plus Florida, Alexandria, Virginia and other places by Gannon International is very interesting..

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Vietnam Investor Behind ''Swift Boat Vets'' Attack
Date: Tuesday, May 18 @ 10:00:00 EDT
Topic: Politics

The group attacking Kerry for his antiwar record is backed by a wealthy veteran who's profiting from his business ties to the Communist regime.
By Joe Conason
©2004 Salon.com
May 14, 2004

When the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" launched its campaign against John Kerry 10 days ago, leadership and guidance were provided by Republican activists and presidential friends from Texas -- notably Houston attorney John E. O'Neill and corporate media consultant Merrie Spaeth. Indeed, although the group made its debut at a press conference in Washington, it looked and sounded like a Texas GOP operation.

On closer inspection, the ostensibly nonpartisan "Swift Boat Vets" seem to have another pair of significant sponsors with deep and long-standing Republican connections in Missouri. Both are officers of Gannon International, a St. Louis conglomerate that does lots of overseas business in, of all places, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Ties to Gannon can be traced via the Swift Boat Vets Web site (as an alert reader advised me last week). On April 14, the site was registered under the name of Lewis Waterman, Gannon's information technology manager, at 11301 Olive Boulevard in St. Louis, the firm's headquarters address. Although Waterman wouldn't discuss why he had set up the Web site, he didn't deny that his boss, Gannon president and CEO William Franke, had asked him to do so.

(snip)

While neither Franke nor Hayes returned calls seeking confirmation of their roles in the Swift Boat Veterans organization, it seems obvious that Waterman wouldn't have set up the group's Web site using Gannon's corporate address without approval from his employers.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:J3jF8om9_DUJ:modelminority.com/printout780.html+Tom+DeLay,+Gannon&hl=en


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The Gannon Technologies Group provides hardware configurations, software, and services to digitize massive databases for both internal information management and presentation across the Internet. If the Internet is the super highway, The Gannon Technologies Group produces the products carried along that highway.

The Gannon Technologies Group has provided the software support and services for several United States federal and state agencies, including an extensive staffing commitment to the Anti-Trust Division of the United States Department of Justice.

The Gannon Technologies Group created the electronic databases for citizenship records for two Central American countries.

The Gannon Technologies Group has provided critical technical support and created electronic databases for several high profile matters, including the Office of Special Counsel for the Branch Davidian (Waco, Texas) Investigation and the Federal Election Commission's investigation of political fundraising practices.

The Gannon International initiative and the Gannon International team continue to expand… both in the depth and in the scope of expertise and abilities. Each year, new initiatives and new partners, associates and friends are added, ensuring the continued dynamic… but prudently managed…growth of the Gannon International organization.
Gannon International is privately held.


http://www.gannonintl.com/contact.htm




Where Are We Located?

Gannon International's corporate offices are in St. Louis, Missouri, and Gannon International affiliated companies have offices in Alexandria, Virginia, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Ft. Worth (Texas), Warsaw (Virginia), Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Tampa (Florida).

[aden_nak]

1. Maybe he's a really big Legend of Zelda fan?

[KoKo]

3. I read alot of mysteries. The connections often are interesting..

And, having been on DU for awhile, I find that odd connections that don't "seem" to go anywhere, often prove to be important. This may be dead end..but it's curious. :shrug:

[aden_nak]

5. I'm not discrediting the theory, just making a pun.

Theorize on. The same time of research that leads to dead ends also leads to great discoveries, it's just that no one mentions the former while being praised for the latter.

[KoKo]

2. Here's a lst of their offices:

Gannon International, Ltd.:
Gannon International, Ltd.
11301 Olive Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63141
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 314-812-8700

The Gannon Realty Group:
The Gannon Development Company
11301 Olive Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63141
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 314-812-8700

The Gannon Management Company of Florida
15750 SW 105th Terrace Suite CL-201
Miami, FL 33196
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 305-595-0922

The Gannon Management Company of Missouri
11301 Olive Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63141
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 314-812-8700

The Gannon Technologies Group:

Gannon Technologies Group, LLC

1000 North Payne Street, Suite 200

Alexandria, Virginia 22314-1652 T

Telephone: [phone]

Facsimile: 703-373-1963


Litigation Systems, Inc.
1000 North Payne Street, Suite 200

Alexandria, Virginia 22314-1652

Telephone: [phone]

Facsimile: 703-373-1963

The Gannon Pacific Group:
Gannon Company (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Resident Representative Office
4th Floor, PDD Building
162 Pasteur Street
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 011-848-822-7350

Gannon Company (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Resident Branch Office
Suite B-9
Harison Business Center
40 Cat Linh Street
Dong Da District
Hanoi, Vietnam
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 011-844-733-2517

Gannon Realty (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
15th Floor
518/5 Ploenchit Road
Bangkok 10330 Thailand
Telephone: [phone]

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

12. "Here's a lst of their offices". Bullshit, that's a list...

... of companies with the name "Gannon" in them. If you wish use the phrase "their offices", please show how these companies are all related (apart from the letters "g", "a", "n" "o" and the number "4"... Elmo says "Hi").

There have been many threads on DU in my short tenure that go completely tangential like this, based solely on coincidental names, paranoia and self-deluded analytical capability: e.g., the entire "companies that share the name Triad" conspiracy and that computer company with a CEO that shot himself whose name was similar to some BBV company (I forget what it was, as it was truly asinine).

I really, really, hate faith-based analysis like this. If you can demonstrate a connection, then please do so. Making this kind of sexed-up conjecture will result in innocent people getting tarred and/or a huge waste of precious resources chasing wild geese. (cf. Richard Jewel.)

[bullimiami]

4. so once again. some right wing bastard gets govt contracts

and turns part of the profit into a slander payback machine.

bushco is the embodiment of organized crime.

[ewagner]

6. Sooooo...

what was Talon-News address?

[KoKo]

7. This is probably nothing important...dead end..but Conason's post is worth

a re-read. And,who knows, maybe down the road we will find out whay Gurkert chose GANNON as his pseudonyym. :shrug:

[Eloriel]

8. Fascinating

I wonder what further research and investigation might turn up?

[KoKo]

9. I don't know. I threw it out because I , too, thought there was something

there, kind of fascinating, but either the "Kossacks" already have it, or we here are too tired to go after it. I did a little Googling it would take more to connect all the names and even then we might not make the connection.

In my gut...I think it's there, but then we know that it's all tied together in one big entity anyway...those of us who've watched it for so long. Until the "internet" it was hard to piece it together.

Still, Conason's article is interesting about Gannon. A nasty "Holding Company" which sure sounds like party of the problem. My Googling came up with so many connections to the Campaign Against Kerry it was hard not to see them as part of the VAST REPUG CONSPIRACY. :-( I couldn't get the tie to Gurkert thought. It would need a deeper search that others may have already done.

[chi_girl_88]

10. That was my thought exactly

I was on the Kos site the Saturday or Sunday (can't remember) this whole thing started cooking two weeks ago. And while I wasn't involved with the major research, that night all of us were throwing out ideas from Google searches, hoping something would flesh out. Mainly trying to find out who the guy really was.

I went to FR and read all of Jeff Gannon's posts that night, and they mostly seemed to center on three things: the Dashle race, anti-John Kerry/Swift Boat, and Rather-gate. I found the Gannon International/Swift Boat link to be extremely curious, but they were more focused on linking him to the Plame story and went in that direction instead.

Still, considering that Gannon (the man) was apparently peripherally involved with not only the expose of the Rather memo, the Swift Boat smears, and potentially the Plame issue....all of those smears have Rove written all over them. Okay, so I also happened to watch "Bush's Brain" that weekend, which probably made me predisposed to see it that way, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it turns out that Gannon (and others connected to FR) were acting on Rove's behalf.

How DID FR get that Rather memo that fast to be able to determine it was a forgery so quickly? Maybe because they had it before Rather did and was told by the leaker that it was forged? And how exactly does a guy with no real journalistic connections get not only a White House press pass, but also gets to see a classified CIA memo?

Rove did cut his political teeth during the '72 Nixon campaign after all, and I've even read that he was the one who leaked the story on the Bush DUI during the 2000 campaign - only, to a source he knew would be discredited. Destroy the messenger, and the message is lost. That fits exactly with the way the Rathergate thing went down - the memo was leaked to Bill Burkett, who everyone knew had a jones to bring Bush down over the National Guard story, only he didn't have a smoking gun. It would be a political act of genius to provide him with one (in the form of an ever-so-subtly forged memo), and then also leak it to the guys on your side to discredit not only the memo, but the messenger (Burkett) and the mouthpiece (Rather) at the same time.

To paraphrase the line from the movie "All the President's Men" - If you guys could get Rove, that would be beautiful!" A job for DU?

[KoKo]

11. Yes...good thoughts you have. It's all connected in a spider web.

I think the MSM know we are onto it, but are watching figuring they can head us off at every pass (Old Western Movie talk here..:D) but I think that all of this is KNOWN by the "Inside the Beltway Crowd and DC Media" it's just very hard for us to really get the pieces into place when there are so many. So, it's easy for MSM to sidetrack us and throw a blanket over any of our "internet investigations" by discrediting us, or fluffing us off.

I know I could Google for days everyone of the Board Members at Gannon and do multiple searches with Eberle and Gurkert and a few other names from Conason's article. But, where would it go? I have to hope the Kos folks will come up with it since they have a dedicated team.

But this Gannon International sounds like a very seedy bunch to me. Definitely a companyyyy that's been up to dirty work with tentacles in places that one would think wouldn't make sense for a single company to get into and stay financially sound. And, that Conason posted about them, means he hoped it would go somewhere, too. Obviously, it didn't for him.

So many of these companies funding these folks. It's really overwhelming. :shrug:

[chi_girl_88]

13. Agree on the eternal Googling

and no way do I personally have the time. Just trying to throw the gauntlet out there in the hope that someone might be inspired to take up the challenge.

Hopefully, the Kos team will come up with something concrete, they've got the bug and are extremely focused. It's a beautiful thing to observe, even if you can't contribute personally.

[NVMojo]

14. very good connections, Koko01!!