New York, NY, April 27, 2005 -- “Jeff Gannon,” the phony White House reporter-cum-male escort, was present in the White House on at least five occasions when Secret Service records claim he wasn’t.
An ongoing investigation by ePluribus Media volunteers that compared archived CSPAN and White House video and audio clips with recently released Secret Service documents suggests that “Jeff Gannon” enjoyed highly unusual access to the nation’s most secure facility.
Todd Johnston, lead writer for an ePluribis Media investigative team that includes 17 volunteers, published the ePluribus Media story at DailyKos.com, the nation’s most popular political web site, this morning.
ePluribus Media’s DailyKos story is available here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/27/85948/0070
The clips show that Gannon was conclusively present on Apr. 15, 2003, Nov. 5, 2003, June 9, 2003, and then again on Jan. 6 and Jan. 10, 2005. Yet Secret Service Access Control Records released in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, and Rep. John Conyers, D-MI recently show no mention of Gannon’s White House entry or exit for those days.
“Gannon may have evaded Secret Service security at the White House many times over the past two years,” said Johnston. “We don’t yet know which White House official authorized his access, but we now have conclusive proof he was there on at least five separate occasions without the knowledge of the Secret Service,” he said. “The Secret Service can document the President’s White House schedule better than it can Jeff Gannon’s,” Johnston said. “In the best case, that is peculiar. In the worst case, it represents a dire lapse in national security,” Johnston added.
Gannon’s White House schedule, revealed by the FOIA documents released by the Secret Service, was the subject of a feature article on Raw Story (www.rawstory.com) on Sunday.
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