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The Associated PressMonday, April 25, 2005; 8:21 PMWASHINGTON -- A conservative writer who quit his job covering President Bush amid criticism for his pointedly political questions visited the White House 196 times in two years, the Secret Service has disclosed......Guckert posed questions with conservative overtones, attracting scrutiny from liberal bloggers who linked Guckert with online domain addresses suggestive of gay pornography. Guckert resigned in February......Democratic Reps. Louise Slaughter of New York and John Conyers of Michigan filed a freedom of information request and were given Secret Service records of Guckert's visits to the White House. link
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Bong Bong! 196 times in 2 years = more than twice a week. Karl Rove has his own crib.
It is but I am glad they are blowing this up a little. It's ridiculous and is the tip of the iceberg. Gannon is suspected to be one of the little kids (now all grown up) that was abducted in the Larry King (not the CNN one) scandal that involved child sex slaves, the Bohemian Club, etc.
[throws hands up in the air] You Peeeeepole!
The new news is that a Freedom Of Information Request was filed and that's where the 196 TIMES came from. That's NEWS! And even if it were old news (which its not) you're happy to just move along... The previous spin was about improper access to the White House regarding political questions, and some people made suggestions about Karl Rove's dirty laundry. This looks like improper AYO access to someone who lives at the White House.
Now, I'd be very interested to see if those 196 visits all coincide with Pres Bush actually being at the White House (remember he's the most absent Pres ever). If so, then Gannon was visiting the Pres pretty much every other day he was there. Of course, there could be a logical explaination, but like I said, Karl Rove has his own crib.
Unless someone invents a drive-thru revolution, this country's goose is cooked.
But of course the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections weren't stolen from under your sleeping noses, and it's all old news anyway!
The title of another thread seems very apt: PUTO, BONG, BONG.
What are you suggesting I do with this news? Post it again on a different message board and throw a hissy fit when nobody validates my political acumen?
If you've got suggestions, I'm all eyes.
Speaking of FOIA requests, hot off the photocopier:
Government Documents on Torture
Freedom of Information Act
The ACLU filed a request on Oct. 7, 2003 under the Freedom of Information Act demanding the release of information about detainees held overseas by the United States.
http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=13962&c=36
Political acumen? How? I'm obviuosly not as worldy as you so to me this is about SHIT I WANNA READ ABOUT!!! Surely the truth is way stranger than Karl Rove's political scheming? If you know it already, I'm all
>>E-mail from REDACTED to Gary Bald, Frankie Battle, Arthur Cummings Re: FWD: Impersonating FBI at GTMO
"Of concern, DOD interrogators impersonating Supervisory Special Agents of the FBI told a detainee that REDACTED. These same interrogation teams then REDACTED. The detainee was also told by this interrogation team REDACTED. These tactics have produced no intelligence of a threat neutralization nature to date and CITF believes that techniques have destroyed any chance of prosecuting this detainee. If this detainee is ever released or his story made public in any way, DOD interrogators will not be held accountable because these torture techniques were done the "FBI" interrogators. The FBI will be left holding the bag before the public."
My point was that there's no need to get huffy and start making accusations about the complacency of anyone reading your post. I didn't understand that you were making an update about the number of visits to the white house by this particular person in such a short period of time. That is somewhat interesting.