'When will we say enough is enough?'"

"Conyers' Gannon Resolution: 'When will we say enough is enough?'"
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Blogged by Brad on 3/15/2005 @ 10:39pm PT...

Conyers' Gannon Resolution: 'When will we say enough is enough?'
Tomorrow's Statement Tonight from the Second-Longest Serving Member of the U.S. House

Tomorrow morning at 10am ET, the honorable John Conyers will issue a Resolution of Inquiry in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee forcing both Republicans and Democrats to go on the...

Tomorrow morning at 10am ET, the honorable John Conyers will issue a Resolution of Inquiry in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee forcing both Republicans and Democrats to go on the record with a vote as to whether they believe the White House should come clean concerning the credentialing of hooker cum fake White House journalist James Guckert (a/k/a Jeff Gannon).

RAW STORY has some inside skinny on the maneuver. AMERICAblog has the details on where you can watch online.

BRAD BLOG has Conyers' statement...
Statement of John Conyers, Jr.
Gannon Resolution of Inquiry
March 16, 2005

We are here today because we have an Administration that is all too willing to flaunt the law, and a Congress that refuses to investigate even the most serious ethical transgressions. Whether it is torture at Abu Ghraib, sole source contracts with Haliburton, or the outing of a CIA operative, this Congress has been unwilling and unable to ask the hard questions or issue the difficult subpoenas.

We are here today because it simply defies credibility that a phony reporter, operating under an alias, who couldn't get privileges in the House or Senate press gallery, could receives scores of consecutive White House "day passes," without the intervention of someone very high up at the White House. Can anyone believe that while Pulitzer Prize winning journalists are being turned down for White House press passes, a fake journalist working for a Republican-controlled media front operation could receive virtually open-ended access to the White House press room in the absence of preferential treatment?

We are here today because the Administration has either rejected or ignored every bona fide request for information concerning Jeff Gannon. On February 9, Rep. Slaughter asked the White House how Gannon was able to obtain his special access - her request has been ignored. On February 10, Rep. Slaughter and I asked the same question of the Secret Service - we received a non-responsive response. On February 15, Rep. Slaughter and I filed a FOIA request with the Department of Homeland Security - again, no response. In the light of this stonewalling, we have no choice but to ask this Committee and this Congress to do its job and request these materials from the Administration.

We are here today because we are simply unwilling to tolerate the continued manufacture of news by our government. Taxpayers don't want their money used to pay reporters to recycle Administration propaganda. Citizens can no longer tolerate paying reporters for their opinions while we can't fund our jobs and poverty programs. Americans don't want the White House press room to churn out releases that reporters like Jeff Gannon plagiarize and report as their own.

What we have today is a government by fiat, not a system of checks and balances. If we won't investigate this scandal, where will we draw the line? If we don't act now, when will we say enough is enough?

On the money, and out of the ballpark as usual, Congressman.

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COMMENT #1 [link]
...cd said on 3/15/2005 @ 11:10pm PT...

I am so in awe of this Congressman -- not just for the fact that he can see so clearly what the rest of us see, not just for the fact that he has the courage to speak truth to power, nor for his ability to frame the issue so concisely, but because he is doing it on so many fronts at the same time and with so little support from the rest of Congress!! This decency and intelligence and patriotism should be apparent everywhere, but it seems to always fall on Conyers. We must make sure he is supported --by our phone calls, letters (to him and to our own Congressional representatives), and letters to the editor, and financial contributions. He can't keep this up without our help. We are so starved for leadership, it is like manna from heaven when we finally get it!

COMMENT #2 [link]
...Teresa said on 3/15/2005 @ 11:23pm PT...

"HONORABLE" JOHN CONYERS IS RIGHT!

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...Closet Eviction Notice said on 3/15/2005 @ 11:58pm PT...

Ask Roger Stone if he & his wife knew Guckert.

After all, she's into military types!

Then ask R. Gregory Stevens.

FABULOUS!

COMMENT #4 [link]
...Mr.Murder said on 3/16/2005 @ 2:14am PT...

Ask the baldheaded guy who does State Dept. press briefings. Looks like gannon's grunt double, errr... stunt double.

He's the one who has been less scrutinized under this. Look for any articles with unheralded names, as Guckert most likely has OTHER pen names and has still done covert media work overlooked by major media and out of the limelight of his notorious alias.

His pic and position is not listed that i can see on State Dept's menu. he's a regular on C-Span for State Dept' press briefings. Not Richard Boucher the former diplomat to CHina. The other, big goonie-looking guy. Believe he's a former marine as well...

hmmmm maybe the haircut is his show of solidarity with pardoy of Jimbo. This voter believes his designation is as an alternate to the State Dep't spokesman or in the spokesman capacity.

Watch him on appearances. If he doesn't fit the butch bully profile of Gannon the gaggle groper, nobody does.

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