Gannon/Guckert and Kenneth R. Timmerman; Any connection?

[drm604]

One of the things that came out at the beginning of the whole Gannon/Guckert expose was the fact that he owned a number of websites, including jeffgannon.com, a handful of porn and/or escort domains and a domain called exposejessejackson.com (Whois info). No one seems to have followed up on that site and I've been a little curious about it. If you go to exposejessejackson.com you get a "Coming Soon" page which, I'm guessing, will most likely not be coming very soon unless the domain is sold off to someone else.
But what was "coming soon"? I have a theory. There is a book titled "Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson" written by right-wing author Kenneth R. Timmerman. Gannon/Guckert and Timmerman seem to move in the same circles and to have been on the same radio stations at around the same times. So it's seems like a reasonable theory that they could have met and formed some sort of business relationship and that exposejessejackson.com was intended to be a site that was somehow related to the book. I want to be clear that if there is a connection it is most likely an innocent business relationship and probably meaningless to any investigation. But I thought that I should put it out here in the off chance that it's a piece that fits into a puzzle that someone is working on. Another tidbit is that this site claims that Kenneth Timmerman is close to Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and his staff. Could Inhofe somehow be JD's "in" at the Whitehouse? Am I spending my time chasing wild geese?

[qanda]

1. I don't think any of this is a waste of time

Keep looking, you never what is the key piece.

[chookie]

2. They were at same Natl Press Club event

the student coordination committe for democracy in iran

" Gannon" has a question for
MR.            :  Thank you, Dr. Corsi.  We have a question here from Jeff Gannon, White House correspondent for Talon News.

Q:  Thank you.  Have you looked into whether John Kerry or his close associates might profit from normalizing relations with Iran?  I say this because I know when he pressed for normalization of relations with Vietnam, his close family members did profit as a result of that.

 MR. JENEVEIN:  Yes, as much as possible.  It was John Kerry who said, quote, "I will be prepared early on to explore areas of mutual interest with Iran, just as I was prepared to normalize relations with Vietnam a decade ago."

 The AIC - the American-Iranian Council that Mr. Timmerman spoke about was funded in large part by major American oil companies.  I think there's an obvious, unmistakable economic opportunity if diplomatic relations with Iran are normalized and those markets are opened up for American businesses.  I think anyone who has positioned themselves in the doorway to that new market stands to make a lot of money.

 Now I've told you everything I know about it, and to the extent - this is something we are eager to talk about with Mr. Nemazee on Monday.  Until now we haven't been able to investigate "

More at
http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3241.shtml

[KoKo]

3. Go over to the "Daily Kos" site. They have a tremendous amount of

research over there...so it would save you time, if they've done it.

A quick way to see is to enter "Timmerman" in Google and if Kossacks have done it...it will show up on Google rather than having to wade through their "Diaries" over there...which I find confusing. I was doing some search on him...and found Daily Kos Diaries popped up and someone had already covered what I was searching several times...so I figured I'd dead ended. That's why I mention it..

But...if you have time..it sounds great. There's so much time missing in Gan/Gurt's life, that any connection would be welcome. Was he in radio broadcasting? Could this be why he felt he could be a WH Reporter? Not everyone would have the Chutzpah to appear with the "Inside the Beltway" group and ask questions. Is there something in his background that shows he had "media" exposure before. Maybe Timmerman is the connection.

WHAT WAS he doing all those years? Was hein the Marines as someone found...or was that another Gurkert. The missing years are the clue to his connections...and that they are so hard to find says they've been covered, so you'd need to find a link with him and search that and hope Gurkert or Gannon comes up. I wonder if either name is really his true name, though. His lies are kind of overwhelming...:shrug:

[drm604]

5. Re: Was he in radio broadcasting?

Yes, at least internet radio broadcasting. He was associated with rightalk.com but that site has been scrubbed of his presence. If you go to the earliest entry for rightalk at the http://www.rightalk.com/">Internet Archive you'll get an "under construction" page with a listing for a program called "Jeff Gannon's Washington", so it looks like he was with it from the beginning. Interestingly, rightalk.com seems to be associated with freerepublic.com via an individual known as Bob Johnson who is apparently the President of both so I'm guessing that JDs association with FreeRepublic was strong enough that it got him a radio show. I have a page on my hard drive (and many other people's hard drives) that lists Bob Johnson as President of both from a site that was recently scrubbed and is now "under re-construction". I got it from a Google cache which is no longer available. It's also not available on the Internet Archive. I've run into a number of things like this. Pages that are suddenly under construction, but their Google cache shows that they were very recently a functioning website containing what I was looking for. If any one wants zip files of what I have on my hard drive, PM me. The more who have it, the better. Also, I should state, if anything happens to me people should know that my friends and family won't accept accidents etc. as an explanation, and certain info will be spread widely if anything happens to me.

[drm604]

11. Daily Kos

KoKo01,
I did as you recommended and I couldn't find any articles over there that linked Guckert and Timmerman. I posted about it there to see if anyone thought it was relevant.

[AlCzervik]

4. This links them on the same story...or fake story about Kerry

Marc Morano of CNS news summarized the state of affairs on October 12 in Top Kerry Donor Faces Allegations About Iranian Propaganda.


On October 14, Aryo Pirouznia and his representatives held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, at which they accused Nemazee and the Kerry campaign of trying to delay answering questions about his influence on the Kerry campaign until after the election. Aryo Pirouznia introduced himself as the coordinator of an organization "focused on freedom in my homeland." Attorney Bob Jenevein explained that neither Nemazee nor the Kerry campaign had responded to repeated requests for information. Dr. Jerry Corsi, co-author of the #1 best-seller "Unfit for Command" announced that he is working with Aryo B. Pirouznia on a new a book, Atomic Islam. He excoriated Kerry for offering nuclear fuel to Iran, noting that "the State Department has classified the Islamic regime in Tehran and the most avid state-sponsor of terrorism in the world today." Insight Magazine reporter and author Kenneth Timmerman charged that the Kerry campaign had violated the law by taking contributions from Susan Akbarpour, a pro-regime fund-raised who was neither a citizen nor possessed a green card at that time. A complete transcript of the press conference can be found here.


In Just naive, or breathtakingly stupid? Dr. Jerome Corsi noted that Kerry supports all three goals of the regime's lobbyists: 1) to normalize diplomatic and economic relations, 2) to include Iran in the World Trade Organization, and 3) to give Iran access to nuclear fuel.


Kenneth Timmerman expanded on his press conference remarks on Kerry's support for the regime's agenda in Kerry's Iran Scandal.


Jeff Gannon of Talon News weighed in the next day with Kerry Taking Campaign Contributions From Pro-Iranian Group.


Nemazee was formally deposed on October 18th, saying, remarkably, that normalizing relations with Iran would be a mistake, that Iran should not be trusted with nuclear materials, and that he favors regime change -- see Kerry Iranian fund-raiser repudiates him on Tehran.


Where does the story go from here? Does each quo have a corresponding quid? Stay tuned...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249625/posts

Another link here
http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3241.shtml
Gannon asks a question about 2/3 of the way down.

[DulceDecorum]

6. Wild geese

We need to collect the jigsaw pieces before we see the whole picture.
Please continue. Even if you hit a dead end, at least we will know it is a dead end and that counts as well.

Neither side of the aisle is eager to touch this with a ten foot pole.
Could be because many of them stand to be embarrassed by their "posture pictures."

I think it was Patricia Nixon who destroyed the posture picture tradition among many of the Ivy League schools and colleges. You see her dad, Richard, was President at the time and when Tricia went off to Smith College, the Secret Service almost lost their collective minds when they found out that the school wished to take a posture picture of the girl and planned to expel her and any other freshman who refused, on the spot.
Calls were made.
And a long-standing tradition came to an end. No posture pictures were taken at Smith College that year and it is expressly forbidden, under pain of I-do-not-know-what to EVER have a mandatory policy or class for all students. They allowed them to retain the slide-down-a-rope-during-a-fire requirement, but that is it. PERIOD.

So what are posture pictures anyway.
Nudie photos.
Yup.
Naked pictures.
Of every single person who attended an Ivy league school for the best part of the 20th Century.
Full frontal, side, back, spread your legs, bend over and show me the moon.
Don't believe me?
Even rabid rightwingnuts admit that nude pics of the high & mighty do exist.

Sheldonian psychology was very popular in its time, peaking in 1951 when Life magazine did a spread on it. Sheldon's prestige was so high that he was able to approach Ivy League colleges for permission to use their archives of "posture photographs" as material for his research. "Posture photography" is a strange little sidebar in the history of higher education in the United States. From as early as the 1880s to as late as 1971, male and female freshmen at elite U.S. colleges were photographed, usually in the nude, as part of their orientation. Thousands of these photographs still exist. You can read about this very peculiar business here. (I am indebted to Patti Hausman for directing me to that link.) Sheldon appropriated some of these photo archives for his own research, and started up some similar projects on his own account.
You will not be very surprised to hear that this program of gathering nude photographs of young college students eventually got Sheldon into hot water. Scholarly opinion turned against him and his theories, he became a sort of academic outlaw, and died in obscurity. (Sheldon's dates are 1899-1977. As well as being the originator of this body-typing theory, he was also a leading expert on the history of the American penny, and wrote a definitive book about it.) A small coterie of admirers keeps the Sheldonian flame alive, but these theories are now well outside the mainstream.
http://nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire120402.asp

One afternoon in the late 1970's, an unsuspecting employee of Yale University opened a long-locked room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and stumbled upon something shocking and disturbing.
Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side and rear poses. Disturbing, because on closer inspection the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual: sticking out from the spine of each and every body was a row of sharp metal pins.
The employee who found them was mystified. The athletic director at the time, Frank Ryan, a former Cleveland Browns quarterback new to Yale, was mystified. But after making some discreet inquiries, he found out what they were -- and took swift action to burn them. He called in a professional, a document-disposal expert, who initiated a two-step torching procedure. First, every single one of the many thousands of photographs was fed into a shredder, and then each of the shreds was fed into the flames, thereby insuring that not a single intact or recognizable image of the nude Yale students -- some of whom had gone on to assume positions of importance in government and society -- would survive.
http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/texts/posture.htm
Or so they would have us believe.....
No wonder GannonGuckert's nudity
is being so strongly defended or so patently ignored.

Something else that hasn't really hit the national consciousness is the fact that GannonGuckert owned/operated an COURT REPORTING service.
http://www.infosourceusa.com/CAT/Secretarial-Court-Reporting/DE/Wilmington.htm

Now according to this pdf file,
http://courts.state.de.us/Courts/Supreme%20Court/Administrative%20Directives/?ad132amended.pdf

Delaware had no guidelines or minimum requirements
and anyone could call themselves a court reporter
UNTIL November 2002
when this Administrative directive went into effect.
That means the GannonGuckert was probably out of a job by December 2002.
Now what is even more curious is the fact that Bedrock Corp shows up as a Factors and Factoring Information Provider.
http://www.de-cashflow.com/Wilmington.htm
Which makes us wonder even more how GannonGuckert ran up that tax bill.

[drm604]

7. I want to make sure I understand what you're talking about.

Factors and factoring: Is that where a company sells their accounts receivables for cash below face value and then the buyer is responsible for collecting on the receivables? Do I understand that correctly? Wouldn't that be a risky business? It seems to me that you have to have large amounts of cash to start, and then you have to successfully collect a very large percentage of the receivables in order to make a profit. Am I correct about this? Could an operation like this be in reality a money laundry or a front for some other nefarious activity?

Let's think about this, how did he get into a situation where he was so desperate for money ($20,000 in back taxes and penalties) that he was willing to prostitute himself. I think that's a very good question to ask.

[DulceDecorum]

8. OK,

I must hereby admit that I am not totally clear on how that whole factoring financial transaction works
but YES
you are barking up the correct tree.

This gig probably came to an abrupt end when Delaware instituted minimum standards for court reporting in November 2002.
Incidentally, the court reporting gig would have made him privy to a lot of secrets and Delaware is KNOWN for its very relaxed standards for incorporation.

[drm604]

9. Is there some kind of relationship between the court reporting

and the factoring? They seem like two different things to me. Why would minimum standards for court reporters have any effect on the factoring business? And why would they cause his court reporter gig to come to an end? Couldn't he have met the minimum standards or maybe even have been grandfathered under the directive? Was he perhaps buying out judgements which he found out about in his capacity as a court reporter, and was this prohibited by the new standards?
...
Looking at the administrative directive PDF you linked to, I think I see the answer to my questions. Section (J) "Prohibited Contracts" would appear to prevent the buying out of judgements in any case in which the reporter was involved. So if he was buying out judgements from litigants in the cases he reported, that cash stream would probably have been dried up by this directive. Maybe at that point he decided that court reporting was no longer lucrative enough to spend his time on. Of course this is all pure speculation. We have no knowledge that he was buying out judgements. We also have no knowledge of when or if he gave up court reporting. For that matter we don't know if he ever actually got any business as a court reporter, do we?

This is all very interesting (and possibly important) but this thread was started about a possible Timmerman connection and I'd like to continue to pursue that also.

[drm604]

10. Isn't anyone interested in this? n/t

[kk897]

12. I am, so I'm kickin' it! n/t

[drm604]

13. Inhofe and The Leadership Institute

The Leadership Institute is Gannon/Guckert's alma matter (he graduated from a two day "journalism seminar" there). Interestingly enough, according to this DU thread James M. Inhofe is a member of The Leadership Institute’s Bi-Partisan Congressional Advisory Board. Hmmm... Is this just a matter of x degrees of seperation? Am I seeing connections that don't really exist? Or is there something more here? Thoughts and opinions would be appreciated. And please, if you have time or resources that I don't, research and post!