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Online Nude Photos Are Latest Chapter In Jeff Gannon Saga

The Jeff Gannon story is still bouncing around the Internet, and now there are pictures. The kind you shouldn't open up in the office. The X-rated twist has made for a lot of clandestine clicking in a town where Deep Throat conjures images not of a porn star but of a man in a parking garage. But it has also deepened the debate over blogging and the tactics used to drive a conservative reporter from his job as White House correspondent for two Web sites owned by a Republican activist. In most Beltway melodramas, the resignation ends the story. The problem for Gannon, whose real name is James Dale Guckert, is that he told The Washington Post and CNN's Wolf Blitzer last week that he never launched the Web sites whose provocative names he had registered, such as hotmilitarystud.com. But a Web designer in California said yesterday that he had designed a gay escort site for Gannon and had posted naked pictures of Gannon at the client's request. The latest developments were first reported by John Aravosis, a liberal political consultant and gay activist who has a Web site called americablog.org. "What struck me initially was the hypocrisy angle," Aravosis said. He said he was offended by what he called Gannon's "antigay" writing. Gannon became a target of liberal bloggers after he asked President Bush at a news conference last month a loaded and inaccurate question about how he could deal with Senate Democrats "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality. [more]

CONYERS AND SLAUGHTER SUBMIT FOIA REQUEST FOR HOMELAND SECURITY RECORDS RELATING TO JAMES D. GUCKERT A.K.A. JEFF GANNON. With the story of faux reporter "Jeff Gannon" growing more bizarre and salacious by the minute, at least two Members of Congress want more information on how the conservative activist got clearance to cover White House news conferences under a pseudonym. Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) sent a Freedom of Information Act request Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security seeking all records pertaining to the Secret Service's decision to clear the "reporter" into White House news conferences. "He is not a legitimate journalist," Slaughter told HOH. "I think of all the legitimate journalists who would love to have access to the White House. And he gets in there with no clearance and is given access to private CIA memoranda. This is devastating."[more] and [more]
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