Thursday, February 10, 2005

Update
to the story below:
The New York Times reports:
"Two Democrats in Congress are pressing for investigations into how a Washington reporter who used a pseudonym managed to gain access to the White House and had access to classified documents that named Valerie Plame as a C.I.A. operative.

The Democrats, Representatives John Conyers Jr. of Michigan and Louise M. Slaughter from Rochester, wrote yesterday to Patrick Fitzgerald, the independent prosecutor appointed in the Plame case, seeking an investigation into how the reporter, James D. Guckert, who used the name Jeff Gannon, had access to classified documents that revealed the identity of Ms. Plame. "

The New York Times > Washington > Democrats Want Investigation of Reporter Using Fake Name

Earlier in the day, Senator Frank Lautenberg wrote a letter to the Bushhouse demanding to know how Gannon/Guckert got White House press credentials so easily, and with a pseudonym.

Guckert talked to the gullible media, telling them that Talon has 700,000 readers (demonstrably false) and that he quit Talon over death threats, and being followed to church. Daily Kos points out that the story broke Monday night, not Sunday.

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