Gannongate Threatens To Expose Huge GOP Pedophile & Male Prostitution Ring

[Mark E. Smith]

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal 2/18/05

Now that it has been discovered that "Jeff Gannon" (real name James D. Guckert) a "reporter" for Talon News Service, a front operation run by the conservative Republican-oriented GOPUSA.com, was using an alias as a cleared White House reporter, details are emerging that threaten to immerse the Bush administration in a major scandal.

"Gannongate," which is only now being mentioned by the mainstream news media, threatens to expose a potentially damaging GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring dating back to the 1982 and the administration of George H. W. Bush. James D. Guckert, using the name Jeff Gannon and possibly other aliases, was also running gay porn sites, one with a U.S. Marine Corps theme that solicited males for prostitution.

White House Press secretary Scott McClellan said he did not realize Gannon was using an alais until recently. However, rumors in the gay community are circulating about McClellan frequenting gay bars in Austin, Texas.

Gannon bypassed established Secret Service security controls, including a backround check requiring a social security number, to obtain a White House press pass that identified him by an alais, an action seen by many seasoned washington journalists as only being possible if he had favorable treatment from White House staff, especially McClellan and his predecessor Ari Fleischer. One White House reporter expressed revulsion over the fact that it was Fleischer who took away press credentials from the late long-time White House correspondent Sarah McClendon and handed them to Gannon.

GOPUSA.com is run by a right-wing Texas and Bush friend named Bobby Eberle. In 2003, GOPUSA.com launched a vicious anti-Semetic attack against international financier George Soros, a leading philanthropist for progressive causes and a major contributor to the Democratic Party.

http://onlinejournal.com/Media/021805Madsen/021805madsen.html

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Plenty more here for the adventurous reader. Some of this has been written about on DU, but this article brings a lot together in one place, including a very interesting historical perspective dating back to previous similar scandal in the Bush world, and a series of very suspicious deaths.