Secret Service says Gannon approved appropriately...

[lala_rawraw]

Secret Service says Gannon approved appropriately

By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor

The Secret Service has responded to a request from House Democrats to investigate the approval of discredited White House correspondent ‘Jeff Gannon’ and stated there was “no deviation” from “proper procedures,” RAW STORY can reveal.

The Service, which replied in a letter to Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) on Monday, asserts that Gannon, whose real name was Jim Guckert, was approved appropriately.

“Please be advised that our Office of Protective Operations has looked into this matter and has determined that there was no deviation from Secret Service standards and procedures as your letter suggests,” Secret Service Deputy Assistant Director Conrad A. Everett wrote. “Mr. Guckert provided the Secret Service with his legal name, rather than his ‘pen name,’ and was assessed using the same criteria applied to all individuals seeking access to White House briefings.

<snip>

“While I appreciate the Secret Service’s response to some of our questions, the bigger picture remains,” Slaughter said in a statement to RAW STORY. “The relationship between this Administration and Jeff Gannon was anything but typical and the American people deserve the full, unvarnished truth.

rest here...
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=161

[xxqqqzme]

1. "...same criteria applied

to all individuals seeking access to White House briefings."...

FOR TWO f*cking years?!?!?!

[sui generis]

7. what, so everyone else has gay porn sites

specializing in military fantasies?

Probably the criteria is don't ask don't tell: "we don't ask if you're a low down dirty ass ho and you don't tell"

[w13rd0]

2. Why did Simple Scottie...

...call on him as Jeff? Sorry, but they knew he was there, they knew what he was about, I call bullshit on their lies.

[LeftHander]

3. Prison Guards state prisoner shot while trying to escape....

Also stated that they were first properly tortured....

[sui generis]

4. can you spell C.Y.A.?

yes, I believe the term was originated in government. I just find it funny that they're covering a low dollar male prostitute's ho ass in addition to their own.

[ClarkUSA]

5. As if anyone believes Porter Goss, Bush bootlicker at gutted CIA

The CIA is nothing but another propaganda wing of the Republican Party.

[mimitabby]

6. ah, isn't that special?

so guck/gan's treatment was standard, how come other reporters
don't get standard treatment then?

[otohara]

8. Yet Maureen Dowd

is turned down - Secret Service liars, imagine that?

[Me.]

9. And How Does A Non-Reporter

representing a non-existent site get a reporter's pass?

[madrchsod]

11. why? cause he was fucking someone

that is well connected in the whitehouse. that is obvious

[Supersedeas]

10. can we now assume that the S.S. has become another arm of the

Republican Party.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Did anyone expect the SS to say, " Yes, we flagged the WH, but they

over-rode our recommendation to refuse credentialing?"

C'mon.

[0007]

13. junior would fire the first Secret Service that said otherwise!

Give me a fucking break, eh?

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. If that is indeed the case, then "proper procedures"

leave a lot to be desired. The idea that the wh felt the need to place a shill at those conferences, particularly an unvetted one with an unsavory background, is totally unbecoming of the USA, but is to be expected as business as usual in the chimp administration.

[blogslut]

15. conveniently confusing

I thought that day pass reporters weren't checked out by the FBI? So, they're saying they checked him out for a day pass?

oh, and New Gannon Scandal on DailyKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/8/123054/5928

[chelsea0011]

16. However, the SS reports Clinton has had sex in the WH

what could the SS say about Gannon? He's a male prostitute who runs a gay porn web site and he has no journalistic background but for a RW internet web site? But what the hell. Give him a pass and clearance.

[barbaraann]

17. So can Heidi Fleiss join the White House Press Corps?

She couldn't do a worse job than the people they have there now.

[Fleshdancer]

18. wasn't Gannon seen in the press room before Talon News was created?

A few weeks ago a screen capture of Gannon in the press room was found and it was dated atleast a month or so before Talon News even existed. Was that a fake?

[fertilizeonarbusto]

20. Yes, as a matter of fact n/t

[Goldmund]

19. Next question is...

...what exactly standards they use, if somebody like Gannon, who made a living from a criminal activity and wasn't a published journalist at all could pass through their "standard checks".

[Nordmadr]

21. Ohhh...well if the Secret Service SAYS procedures were followed

they must have been. I'm satisfied. <sarcasm>

Olaf

[Me.]

22. Also...

I thought the SS never spoke publicly about anything they were doing or involved with. Why this, why now?

[cap]

23. on a background check, ALL names are supposed to be checked...

real name, maiden name, aliases etc... he never followed standard procedure.

[phoebe]

24. Secret Service has let several people past the "fences"

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I...
of February 2003

an interesting read..

snip

And, as this reporter revealed last fall, the Secret Service's new computerized access-control system for the White House, built in the final months of the Clinton administration and put in place just after Bush arrived, apparently has left the White House complex even more vulnerable. Retired Secret Service officer Bill Castle and other sources familiar with the system told Insight that the system frequently crashes and gives inaccurate data about White House guests and employees. Insight also discovered that the chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of the company that was the lead contractor for the project was a mysterious Swiss resident named Niklaus Zenger, who had ties to the current Russian military and its Soviet predecessor and had been accused by former business associates of stealing proprietary technology.

All this going on despite *'s new 2003 appointee Basham who is ex- Secret Service...

Mr. Zenger's company, at the time, was removed from this security position but despite several interesting ventures (remember Red Cube?) his "new" company appears to be in charge of nuclear security at Scandia Labs and Los Alamos - WTF? He looks to be one heck of a slippery guy - no pictures or bios available. Supposedly Zenger wrote for Tass somewhere in his past.

Wondering if he is somehow tied into this?? Any thoughts?

[Judi Lynn]

25. Your link's not active. Could you check it? Thanks. n/t

[phoebe]

26. hope this one works - basically same info. but more depth

http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/9-18-02/discussion.cgi.36.shtml

hope above link works..

don't know if it's a piece of the puzzle..

Sidebar - system didn't/doesn't track who goes in or out or how long they stayed - notice reference to Enron here amongst other things..Lots going on..

[lala_rawraw]

27. Okay

That is odd... because the below link is not the link to the article I posted, but here you go:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=161

[trudyco]

28. So SS just checks for security risk, not reporter credentials?

If Guckert was CIA or other clandestine service, or if he was a certain rank in the military, wouldn't he have basic security clearance? Is that good enough to get in the press room? One would like to know what are the security levels one needs to get in.

I think they knew his real name and knew he was CIA or something like it. The SS probably aren't responsible for if he is a real reporter or if he owned a porn website.

[CO Liberal]

29. So Anyone Using an Alias And "Working" for a Bogus News Service....

...can get access to the White House???? :shrug: