The
press takes a pass on 'Jeff Gannon'
The press takes a pass on 'Jeff Gannon'
By Carol Towarnick
towarnc@phillynews.com
IF A REPORTER who doubled as a gay hooker had visited the Clinton White
House nearly 200 times, think it would have made the news?
If "Jeff Gannon"/James D. Guckert had been unveiled, so to speak, as a
liberal imposter who lobbed softball questions at Clinton administration
press briefings, he would be as infamous as Michael Schiavo.
And if 39 of those White House visits were mysteriously unrelated to his
"reporting" duties, imagine what innuendoes would be issuing forth from
Planet Limbaugh. Imagine the organized phone call campaign demanding
newspapers and TV stations report the story.
But Gannon/Guckert isn't being unveiled or innuendoed or even blipped on
media radar screens, even among liberals.
Last Sunday was the third time in recent weeks that I came across
hyper-informed liberals who have not heard the first thing about Guckert,
who used the name "Jeff Gannon" to pose as a newsman from a Web site that
was in reality a Republican Party front. Gannon advertised his second job as
a male escort on Web sites complete with full frontal photos.
For months, Gannon/Guckert asked obviously biased questions at press
briefings. He was conveniently ready when Bush spokesman Scott McClellan was
being pressed too hard by reporters. Apparently none of those reporters ever
thought to check out the obvious ringer in their midst. It was only when
Gannon asked one of his trademark questions at a nationally televised
presidential press conference in February that some bloggers noticed.
It didn't take much digging for them to uncover Gannon's not-so-secret
identity and ask the obvious: Did the Secret Service have this information?
Did the White House? But the story went nowhere then and is going nowhere
now.
Just last week, a Freedom of Information Act search requested by two members
of Congress revealed that Gannon/Guckert visited the White House 196 times -
39 of them days when there were no press briefings. While liberal blogs made
much of the news, a Nexis search found that the Associated Press gave it
only three paragraphs, which were picked up by only two newspapers
nationwide. CNN mentioned the story only to say that the blogs had it. On
MSNBC's "Countdown," Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank offered excuses
for the 14 times that Gannon/Guckert's entries or exits weren't recorded by
White House security and host Keith Olbermann seemed apologetic for bringing
it up.
If reporters aren't worried about imposter journalists, at least they should
smell a good story in a possible White House security breach.
With an explosion of media, much of it partisan, the role of actual
journalism becomes even more critical. Yet the bright line between news and
fair comment on one hand versus manipulation and propaganda on the other has
all but disappeared.
Of course, Gannon/Guckert was only the most flamboyant of phony journalists
to grace our airwaves in recent months: There are the paid hacks who got
government money to laud government programs in their columns; there were
the government video news releases made to look like actual TV reports - and
which were run on many smaller stations.
Journalists get hopping-mad if CIA agents masquerade as reporters in war
zones - it puts them at high risk. Yet these same journalists seem almost
blas� at the assault on truth zones every day at the White House, on Capitol
Hill and on a TV screen near you.
At a time when the radicals of the right, aided by the White House, seek to
eviscerate constitutional protections, the news media have found a curious
way to protect the First Amendment: Don't worry that Congress will abridge
freedom of the press; The press will do the job of abridging itself all on
its own.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/11541660.htm
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Carol Towarnicky is the chief editorial writer of the Daily News. E-mail
towarnc@phillynews.com.
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Urgent recent developments in the Franklin satanic cult/sex/drug ring

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Kay Griggs wife of Colonel George Griggs
Why would the US military ignore 9-11 and other crimes?
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Conspiracy of Silence video Child sex ring that reached Bush Sr's
Whitehouse.
Headline:
Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush "Call boys'
took midnight tour of White House.
Larger scans here
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1570946.php
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This article the author is mentioned in the video below.
There are 19 more Washington times articles text about this case available
here.
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/sexandcapitol7,18,01.htm#article4
A True Story About Sex, Child Abuse, Murder and Drugs, Covered up By
Authorities
From Portland Indymedia.
"Conspiracy of Silence", a documentary listed for viewing in TV Guide
Magazine was to be aired on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994. This
documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington
politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies. Many
children suffered the indignity of wearing nothing but their underwear and a
number displayed on a piece of cardboard hanging from their necks when being
auctioned off to foreigners in Las Vegas, Nevada and Toronto, Canada. At the
last minute before airing, unknown congressmen threatened the TV Cable
industry with restrictive legislation if this documentary was aired. Almost
immediately, the rights to the documentary were purchased by unknown persons
who had ordered all copies destroyed. A copy of this videotape was furnished
anonymously to former Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who
made it available to retired F.B.I. chief, Ted L. Gunderson. While the video
quality is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster in what is revealed by
the participants involved.
Video of "Conspiracy of Silence"
RealVideo: stream with RealPlayer
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or
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download RM file (33.3 megabytes)
or the same video in higher res format.
Windows media at 39.6 megabytes
http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/conspiracyofsilence2.wmv
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/03/47228.shtml
More links to videos, articles, etc.
Bohemian grove
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3...
Skull and Bones
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3...
The Franklin coverup.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/1538670_comment.php
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CREW Releases Report 'Addicted to Porn: Members of Congress Accept Political
Contributions from Porn Purveyors'
3/10/2005 11:30:00 AM
To: National Desk
Contact: Naomi Seligman of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington, 202-588-5565, Web:
http://www.citizensforethics.org
WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Earlier today, Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report Addicted to
Porn: Members of Congress Accept Political Contributions from Porn
Purveyors. The report details how 15 Members of Congress, including 11
Representatives and four Senators, all of whom revile pornography, have
accepted campaign contributions from corporations and executives who derive
substantial profits from selling pornography.
The report contains four sections: 1) how companies make money from
pornography; 2) which companies have PACs that make campaign contributions;
3) which Members of Congress receive these contributions; and 4) the quotes
of Members of Congress named in the report who have publicly condemned
pornography. In addition, an appendix to the report details the
contributions made from corporations and executives to Members of Congress.
CREW's executive director Melanie Sloan stated "it is one thing to be silent
on the issue and accept porn purveyor's contributions. However, these
Members of Congress attempt to slap pornographers with fines and legislative
restrictions with one hand and turn around and accept porn profits with the
other. Our report details the hypocrisy of this 'skin caucus.'"
Some of the findings of the report:
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) -- who equivocates pornography with crack
cocaine -- accepted $17,000 from porn peddlers.
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) -- who has long campaigned against
the growing coarseness of our culture -- along with renown gambling addict
William Bennet, handed out "Silver Sewer" awards to those who made immoral
videos, and who has criticized MTV for having porn stars on the air,
accepted over $16,000.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who leads the charge against indecency, accepted
over $56,000.
Arizona Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who claimed to be the "anti-porn"
presidential candidate in ads that ran prior to the South Carolina primary,
pocketed $46,000 from corporations and executives who profit from porn.
Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director referred to Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.)
as "the biggest hypocrite of all" for having written a letter to former Vice
President Al Gore demanding that he return a contribution from an adult
entertainment web site and for sanctimoniously ranting at Viacom executives
that they cared more about profits than morality, despite accepting $47,000
in porn profits.
A copy of the report can be found on the Web at
http://www.citizensforethics.org or contact Naomi Seligman at press@citizensforethics.org.
------
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit,
progressive legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public officials
accountable for their actions.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=44149
REPORT:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/2005310_addicted_to_porn.pdf
Appendix
http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/20050310_appendix_addicted.pdf
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George Bush, Pedophiles & The CIA
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/100403.shtml
2003 05:39
There have been other reports suggestive of a connection between child abuse
and top officials. On June 29, 1989, the Washington Times, shook the Bush
White House to its very roots with the front page headline "Call Boys Took
Midnight Tour of White House.'' The paper reported, ``A homosexual
prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities
and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush
administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign
businessmen with close ties to Washington's political elite.''
George Bush, The CIA, Mind Control & Child Abuse
May 5, 2003
From the Streets of Little Beirut
Glen Yeadon
On January 28, 2003, amid the furor of the impending war with Iraq the
British press briefly reported on Operation Ore, the most thorough and
comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children before being
squashed by the Blair government. Besides implicating Rock guitarist Peter
Townsend of the Who, the report claimed that senior members of Tony Blair's
government were being investigated for pedophilia and the "enjoyment" of
child-sex pornography. With the investigation reaching to senior members of
his Government, Blair declared a news blackout on the story.
Moreover, the British report was not the first such case reported. In fact,
it followed on the heels of a report from Portugal. On November 27, 2002,
the press reported a scandal of pedophile ring run from a state orphanage.
The Guardian reported that the scandal threatened to engulf diplomats, media
personalities and senior politicians. Photographs of senior government
officials with young boys from Lisbon's Casa Pia orphanage were among
the evidence. More shocking however, were the revelations that systematic
sexual abuse of children at the home had allegedly been going on for more
than 20 years and had been known to police and other authorities for most of
that time.
On January 14, 2002, Insight Magazine reported the charges leveled by Ben
Johnson against his employer Dyncorp, a major defense contractor. Johnson
charged that officials and employees of Dyncorp were engaging in perverse,
illegal and inhumane behavior and were purchasing illegal weapons, women,
forged passports and participating in other immoral acts. Johnson had
witnessed his supervisors and fellow employees buying 12- to 15-year-olds as
sex slaves.
While prostitution is the world?s oldest profession, the global sex trade is
big business. The impact of illegal immigrant traffic in Canada is estimated
at between $120 million to $400 million per year accounting for
approximately 8,000 to 16,000 people arriving in Canada per year illegally.
The estimate is from Organized Crime Impact Study, prepared for the
Solicitor General of Canada. The majority of the illegal immigrants are
forced into prostitution and come from Vietnam and China. Once smuggled into
Canada the young girls are sold into bondage throughout a North America
network. Moreover, Canada is not alone. Young Russians and Ukrainian women
that wish to immigrate to Israel are often smuggled into the country
destitute
and at the mercy of their pimp.
More disgusting is the role the United States government plays in
facilitating this global sex trade. Instead of banning the previously
mentioned Dyncorp from further defense contracts, the regime of George W
Bush rewards it in granting major contracts for the Iraqi war. Even more
shameful is the wink and nod the state department grants the Saudis. The
Arabian Peninsula has long been known to be purchasers of slaves. Mostly the
slaves came from India or Africa however, with the advent of the oil wealth
the Saudis have became more selective and are known as high-end buyers. The
Saudi Arabian Government continues to refuse to sign the United Nation?s
treaty on slavery and extradition treaties. There have been several
incidents in the past where the media has reported a slave of a Saudi prince
brought into the United States escaped. The State Department then intervenes
and returns the escaped slave to the Saudi prince and the incident
forgotten. The State Department exempts the Saudi princes from normal custom
procedures. A child slave bought by a Saudi prince can be delivered to his
plane and allowed to depart without the required passport for the child. One
fortunate victim that became entangled in the Saudi sex ring was the former
Miss USA Shannon Marketic. She had been lured to Saudi Arabia by what she
believed was legitimate modeling work. Being a high profile case she was
returned to the United States and filed suit. The former Miss USA lost her
lawsuit as the State department granted immunity to her abductors.
Many of the pictures of the young children peering out from posters and milk
cartons that have disappeared in the United States have fallen victim to
this global sex trade. They indeed may have been lucky for there is a much
more sinister side to child molestation. In fact, it is undoubtedly the most
macabre and hideous aspect to evolve out of the United States use of Nazi
scientists, the CIA?s Project MK-ULTRA. This grotesque project of ghastly
experiments in mind control evolved out of earlier CIA projects in search
for a truth serum. The roots for such a project date back to the wartime OSS
search for a truth serum. During the war, the OSS began a search for a truth
serum to use on captured U-boat prisoners. The experiments were limited and
the only drug they found to produce desirable results was cannabis.
According to author Anthony Cave Brown in the L
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