Jamie Gorlick and the 9/11 'wall of seperation' meme -Gannongate

[Al-CIAda]

2/18/2005
Gannon’s own statements suggest he fed exclusive stories damaging Bush opponents to networks; Bragged of feeding Rather story
By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor

“Gannon’s stuff was always golden,” the producer told Aravosis. “How does this small news outfit get this info?”

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who has been leading the charge with Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) for an inquiry into the Gannon affair, expressed amazement at the new revelations.

“Every day brings a new revelation,” Slaughter told RAW STORY Friday. “If this pans out to be true we can add it to the mounting stack of evidence that Mr. Gannon had a special relationship with the White House despite his dubious credentials.”

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Gannon bragged about passing a scoop on who obtained the troubled Bush National Guard memos to Fox News’ Sean Hannity on the conservative forum Free Republic.

“Mary Mapes is DEFINITELY behind the story,” Gannon wrote in Free Republic on Sept. 10, 2004. “This is who I told Sean Hannity got the documents. She also obtained the Abu Ghraib photos.”

“I got the scoop and passed it to Hannity,” Gannon added. “Look for my detailed story on Monday at Talon News. There is much more to this story. Mary Mapes is just the beginning.”

***Interesting***

Gannon also pushed a story about how Republicans felt a Democratic member of the 9/11 had “personal baggage"–that she had written a memorandum while working for the Clinton Justice Department advocating a wall between the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

On April 29, 2004, Gannon asked White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan asking if the president shared an opinion that “the
work of the 9/11 Commission won’t be complete until and unless Jamie Gorelick testifies before the commission on her role in building the wall between intelligence and law enforcement.”

Just hours later, Gannon bragged on Free Republic about putting the mainstream press on the trail.

“You should have been watching on C-SPAN,” he said. “I asked the question about it. As soon as Scott McClellan said that the President was unhappy that the memos were released, my colleagues jumped all over it. Bob Kur just mentioned it in his newscast.”

“It will be hard to ignore the memos now!” he added. “(But they’ll try.)”

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=98

[qanda]

1. Also fed stories about Kerry and the Sandinistas

I'm thinking that the reason the stories were scrubbed is because they show just how much inside information and tips Gannon was receiving.

[emulatorloo]

4. "Kerry Receives Communist Endorsement" link here

I didn't know about this one. . .thanks for the tip:

http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2004/0704/072104-communist.htm

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Kerry Receives Communist Endorsement

By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
July 21, 2004

The Associated Press reported Monday that the head of the communist movement in Nicaragua and Sandinista Leader Tomas Borge announced his support for Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) presidential bid.

The endorsement is not the first friendly relationship between the Massachusetts senator and the Sandinistas. In 1985, Kerry and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) led a delegation that met with Sandinista strongman Daniel Ortega, despite the Reagan administration's efforts to undermine Nicaragua's communist leader.

Kerry returned with a "peace plan" that called for the United States to stop assisting opponents of the junta. The House was convinced to reject an aid package to the resistance at the same time Ortega was traveling to Moscow to ask for $200 million more in support from the Soviets.

The Republican National Committee suggested that Borge must be one of the foreign leaders the Democratic presidential candidate says wants him to win in November.

"The cloud of mystery surrounding John Kerry's support by foreign leaders lifted a little over the weekend. Since Sen. Kerry won't tell us who they are we will continue to monitor New York's fine dining establishments hoping to glean some insight into the other still-mysterious foreign leaders supporting John Kerry," said RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke.

The RNC is returning to the issue of the unnamed foreign leaders who support Kerry in a new 30-second ad.

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[Al-CIAda]

5. This guy turns up more often than friggin Forrest Gump!

He's OBVIOUSLY being fed by someone INSIDE the WH.

[Jade Fox]

2. Gannon is/was a Freeptard??

This could blow skyhigh.

[Blue_Roses]

3. there is no doubt this guy was a Karl Rove plant

his job was to stir things up in the public eye and make sure attention was brought to anything that would make Democrats look bad, otherwise it might not get the attention Karl Rove needed to send the negative message to "win" the election. Classic Karl Rove and as usual he's lurking behind the curtain watching while the heat is on someone else. Gannon/ Guckert or whatever the hell his name is is too stupid to see how USED he is. He probably thinks he's a hero in their eyes as arrogant as he sounds when in reality they'll toss him to the wayside with all the others after they have what they want.

What an idiot.

[Al-CIAda]

6. kick

[KoKo]

7. Why didn't his "handlers" tell him to stop bragging on Feep Site, though?

If this guy was that tied in to someone high in the WH why allow him to brag so much. We know FR is tied into Drudge and probably Newsweek Mag, plus the other usual Repug sites, so why not tell him to "shut" his mouth?

Or, did Gannon "do his work" but they saw him getting "out of hand" so they exposed him? He isn't very sophisticated if he was blabbing his info out on the internet and didn't Limbaugh kind of tip folks off to the "Question to Scotty" that brought the guy down by getting the "Bloggers" onto it? Did Limbaugh give the signal..."Gannon's gotten to big for his britches..so let the "Lefties" go at him? Would the Repugs take the chance that all of this would come out...including the ties to Eberle?

[KoKo]

8. Here's another question...

Did someone "pay" Limbaugh to "turn" on Gannon? Someone on "our side?"

Wasn't he told that his Medical Records could be used against him? And, if that's the case...what if he was told that there was enough info that he would go to jail or at the least his reputation would be ruined forever. So, Limbaugh to "save his hide" puts out the teaser that he was "Misquoted by Gannon."

That's been bugging me about the whole Gan/Guck story. Why did Limbaugh point us to him? :shrug: He doesn't make mistakes like that...