Not much will surprise us about this Administration. There is, however, more to be learned here from McClellan’s actions or lack thereof.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspo.....ellan.html

What he claims, needs to be taken with a big grain of salt.

I would suspect Gannon was more Karl Rove’s type, and Karl (Miss Piggy) would have WAY more clout to have his whore make a house call to the White House.

He can get it.

I’d prefer to spit fuck him so I will let you have first go at it so you can loosen and grease up his asshole for me.

There’s been nothing new. If he spilled the beans on the mystery behind Gannon, now – that would be interesting!

Today’s credentialing procedures are the same as they were 20 years ago. First, a reporter gets credentials on Capitol Hill through a process controlled by the media itself. You have to work a certain number of hours (I believe it’s at least 20 a week) for pay with an independent media outlet. Once you have a congressional pass, you apply for a White House pass. It involves an FBI background check and further verification of your news organization’s status.

Guckert was refused congressional credentials because he didn’t work enough hours, and because his employer was not an independent outlet but was a partisan lobbying group. Without a “Hill Pass,” as they’re called by reporters, he wasn’t eligible to even apply for White House credentials. Therefore, to get into the White House, he had to use “day passes” granted through a separate process managed by the White House political office.

Day passes are generally one-shot deals, but Guckert used 200 day passes that were granted directly by the press office. I can’t possibly overemphasize how irregular this is. It screams foul play. Not only that, but Secret Service records showed Guckert having been admitted on several occasions at night, and not checking out until the next morning. Hello?

The offocial explanation for that was sloppy recordkeeping. No way! Back in the late ’80s the White House was locked up tighter than a drum. We are to believe that security became looser after 9/11? I don’t think so!

People do not get into the White House by mistake, and no one forgets when or at which gate they signed out. Same goes for Guckert’s first-name basis at press conferences, and his admission to special, small-group events with Bush, and for Bush’s having called on him at a nationally televised briefing. Those things never, and I repeat never, happen except by orchestration. NEVER

The Guckert story was mentioned a few times in the Washington Post and the New York Times, but always in brief and always on the inside pages. The Post’s guy, Howard Kurtz, went out of his way to minimize it. The Wall Street Journal never mentioned it, nor to my recollection did the L.A. Times, USA Today, or any network news show except for NBC, and then only once.

I might add that Guckert’s access to the White House began with Ari Fleischer, not Scott McClellan. I predict that none of this will be pursued now. Someone is being protected. Not sure who, but a bunch of people are in on it, including the White House press corps.

If only there was some sort of checking I could have done before I hit Submit.

I’m surprised Darth Paul didn’t give me sh!t for that.