There are only 41 of them. So, they're not the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. Just the same, they are something.

Regardless of their quality or content, these 41 articles raise more questions about Jeff Gannon's access/success as a White House reporter. Infinite Improbability Drive, perhaps? You know what they say about that Heart of Gold.

Last week, Representatives John Conyers and Louise Slaughter released log files of Guckert/Gannon's White House visits - as were provided by the Secret Service - via an FOIS request. Those logs cover a period between February 25, 2003 - February 7, 2005. While much has been written about the roughly 30 times Guckert was in the WH without benefit of an official WH press conference, I've discovered that Jimmy/Jeff was pounding out articles on a regular basis (with a byline) for GOPUSA for more than a month before February 25, 2003..

What got me interested in Jeff's pre-scandal history is what has kept me intrigued since I first read about the man on Media Matters. Even before the escort/adult webmaster stuff, I remember "the question". I heard it when he asked it and it pissed me off. After Jeff was exposed as James Dale Guckert, I felt a certain symbiosis with this guy.

I entered the adult Internet in the late nineties. Jeff entered the adult Internet in the late nineties. I put my dirty pics on the net to sell porn:

Jeff put his dirty pics on the net to sell porn:

I don't have a journalism degree. Jeff doesn't have a journalism degree. I got a sweet gig as a writer. Jeff got a sweet gig as a writer. I identify with Jimmy Dale because if I had just dated the right people, I could have watched a t-ball game on the White House lawn.

I became postively entrenched in Gannon mania after I blogged some proof of JDG's adult webmaster history. As a consequense, I was shortly involved with the kids at ePluribusmedia. I was kicked out and I wish they would stop sending me email. Then I hooked up with my fellow ePluribus outcasts tex and writer Michael Dietz. It was their new piece on Gannon, concerning the origins of Talon News that drove me to spend ages playing with the old GOPUSA site through the WayBack Machine.

What bothered me about tex and Michael's piece as well as every other Gannon timeline is the gap in his association with GOPUSA. The fact has been established that Jeff's first GOPUSA article appeared on the site January 15, 2003. It's also an established fact that Gannon represented GOPUSA in a White House press conference on February 25, 2003. This gap between January and February mystified me because Jeff has been so inconsistent when answering questions centering on this period.

I decided to look at Jeff's original GOPUSA piece with the help of the wonderful WayBack Machine. The article still exists in the ethos of cyberspace. I thought that was odd because from my understanding, GOPUSA scrubbed all the news articles from their website. Well, they didn't exactly. They just removed the link to the archives. That's why I was able to view Jeff's 01/15/03 article. When I messed with the site some more, I found the archive page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030404234202/www.gopusa.com/news

With the above link I was able to open each and every article credited to:

Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News

I scoured for hours and downloaded 41 articles written by Jeff Gannon for GOPUSA, starting on January 15, 2003 and ending on March 31, 2003. According to my findings, Gannon wrote 17 GOPUSA articles before his infamous February appearance on the Secret Service logsheet. While I haven't had a chance to read them all, I have to imagine that at least some of them dealt with WH briefings. Maybe not. Maybe they're just glorified press releases. JDG is so proud of the copy-and-paste method of journalism. Whatever the merits of his writings the truth remains that Jeff Gannon/James Guckert wrote 17 articles under the auspices of GOPUSA, before February 25, 2003. The truth is that JDG's byline appeared on the GOPUSA site 41 times before Talon News ever existed. Here are the links:

If GOPUSA ever figures out how to block the WayBack Machine with robots.txt, those article links might disappear altogether. Don't Panic, my little sluts. I've cached all Jeff's GOPUSA stuff and can repost it like this and this.

Did the revolution happen backwards just like Star Wars?

When Star Wars first came out, the Jedi were the winners. In American history, the people were the winners because we had passed the Civil Rights Bill, stopped a war, ended the draft, kicked a bastard out and freed women with the pill. We had a bad patch in the eighties but things got swell with POTUS 42.

Then this unelected goon turned his back and terrorists attacked us.

Now the force is weak and we are all slaves to the Empire.

Everything's all backwards like those damned George Lucas movies. It's like history wants to repeat the past after the fact. What happened to our victory? Who let these fuckers build the Death Star? Did the rebellion ever happen?

Even notoriously grumpy blog commentator, Anntichrist S. Coulter has a domestic dark side:

Positively shameless.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Progressive Democrats of America Make National Call of Support for Congressional Letter Demanding Investigation of British Intelligence Leak on Iraq Invasion Strategy

(WASHINGTON, DC) — Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, has released a letter signed by 88 fellow Representatives. The letter demands an investigation into the revelation that the American and British governments colluded secretly to manipulate intelligence as a means of justifying a decision to invade Iraq that had already been made. The Conyers letter and names of the House signatories can be read here:

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/letters/bushsecretmemoltr5505.pdf

The revelations came on Monday, May 2nd by way of a report published in the London Telegraph, which described a leaked British intelligence memo from July of 2002. The memo, stamped “Secret,” described concerted efforts by both British and American officials to “fix intelligence and facts around the policy.” The policy in question was the invasion of Iraq. The memo noted specifically that the invasion would be illegal if a justification were not found or created.

The London Telegraph report can be read here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1592724,00.html

The British memo in question can be read here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html

Rep. Conyers’ letter specifically notes that the secret British memo includes revelations that:

· Prime Minister Tony Blair chaired a meeting at which he discussed military options, having already committed himself to supporting President Bush’s plans for invading Iraq.

· British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw acknowledged that the case for war was “thin” as “Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea, or Iran.”

· A separate secret briefing for the meeting said that Britain and America had to “create” conditions to justify a war.

· A British official “reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

The information revealed by this memo, which has not been denied by either the American or British governments, confirms accusations by a wide variety of ‘whistleblowers’ who have accused the Bush administration of manufacturing evidence for war against Iraq. Among these are:

· Richard Clarke, former White House Counter-Terrorism Czar, who accused the administration of using the September 11 attacks to justify an Iraq invasion, thus creating the political cover described in the British memo.

· Tom Maertens, National Security Council director for nuclear non-proliferation for both the Clinton and Bush White House, backed up Clarke's story with his own eyewitness testimony.

· Roger Cressey, Clarke's former deputy, who witnessed one of the most damning charges that has been leveled against the administration by Clarke: They blew past al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks, focusing instead on Iraq.

· Donald Kerrick, a three-star General who served as deputy National Security Advisor under Clinton and stayed for several months in the Bush White House, likewise saw this happening.

· Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary for George W. Bush, was afforded a position on the National Security Council because of his job as Treasury Secretary, and sat in on the Iraq invasion planning sessions which were taking place months before the attacks of September 11. Those planning sessions kicked into high gear when the Towers came down.

· Greg Thielmann, former Director of the Office of Strategic, Proliferation, and Military Issues in the State Department, who was stunned to see the White House use the 'uranium from Niger' war justifications that had been so thoroughly debunked.

· Joseph Wilson, former ambassador and career diplomat, who personally debunked the uranium story after traveling to Niger to investigate the claims.

The most damning testimony regarding "fixing intelligence and facts around the policy" came from Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski in a 2004 interview with Salon magazine.

The Kwiakatowski interview with Salon can be read here: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/

Kwiatkowski worked in the office of Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, and worked specifically with a secretive Pentagon organization run by Feith called the Office of Special Plans. Kwiatkowski reported: "From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq."

"I saw a narrow and deeply flawed policy," continued Kwiatkowski, "favored by some executive appointees in the Pentagon used to manipulate and pressurize the traditional relationship between policymakers in the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president."

Progressive Democrats of America stands with Rep. Conyers and the 88 House members who are signatories to his letter and demands that a full and complete investigation be immediately undertaken into this matter.

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"...we treat these Capitol Hill police as furniture...(I feel) safe in the hands of the Capitol Hill Police."
-- Tom Delay, May 11, 2005

Hmmm...

Larry Flynt remembers the dirty disco seventies and guess who was there?

How you gonna keep Bolton in the UN after he's seen Plato's Retreat?

I can't be a whore. I'm a man!

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted (without recommendation) to send approval of John Bolton to the floor.

Will Bolton's Swingergate Scandal catch the attention of the public by then?

Stay tuned...

There are blogs and then there are hallowed destinations where one is filled with the spirit. Then again, it could be gas. Whatever it is, you will find it at Jesus' General.

FROM: Senate_Democratic_Leader_Harry_Reid@REID.SENATE.GOV
TO: DEM-DEBATE@LIST.DEMOCRATS.GOV
05/17/2005 2:06 PM

Dear Friend,

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has informed me that tomorrow he will bring the nominations of Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown to the floor of the United States Senate. The Senate has already rejected both of these judges and now Bill Frist is threatening to impose the "Nuclear Option", effectively ending free speech in the Senate, breaking the rules to end Democrats right to filibuster, in order to pass these extreme nominees.

Next week I need all of you on the Democrats.gov email list to stand with us. I want to use your voice as part of this debate. Tell me and in fact the American people why this debate is important to you and I will use some of your statements on the floor.

http://democrats.senate.gov/filibuster-form.cfm

George Bush has gotten more than 95% of his judicial nominations confirmed but it isn't enough. The "Nuclear Option" is just another example of Republicans striving for absolute power in Washington, DC. They don't have the votes to pass these nominees so they abuse power and break the rules to get their way. If they win, it spells the end of the checks and balances the founding fathers envisioned in our constitution.

http://democrats.senate.gov/filibuster-form.cfm

And if that wasn't enough, the judges George Bush has chosen to serve on the federal courts are simply unacceptable because of their actions and judicial temperaments. Janice Rogers Brown has called Social Security a form of cannibalism and has consistently used her position to advocate for an extreme ideological agenda. In one opinion she argued that racial slurs are protected by the first amendment, even when they rise to the level of illegal race discrimination.

Priscilla Owen is no better. Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Alberto Gonzales - who is now Attorney General - served with Owen and has called her opinions "an unconscionable act of judicial activism." She has even sought to twist the meaning of an important state civil rights law making it much harder for employees to prove that their rights were violated.

This is the most important fight of my political life but working together we can defeat the forces that wish abuse power to destroy freedom of speech in the United States Senate

Lend your voice and stand with me on the floor this week. There has never been a more important time.

http://democrats.senate.gov/filibuster-form.cfm

Thank you,

Senator Harry Reid

Little Ricky Santorum invokes the name of Hitler and tells the kids that laws are bad...mmmkay?

Put the cots away kids. They've made a deal.