KOS EXCLUSIVE: New Guckert/Gannon FOIA Requests

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/19/9154/09837

ePluribus Media has learned that on Wednesday, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Department of Homeland Security and the Executive Office of the President, to further clarify the "unusual" White House access of James D. Guckert, aka "Jeff Gannon."

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It is clear from the first FOIA release, reported by ePluribus Media on Monday, that the difference between having a security clearance and using it can be quite large. From the Secret Service's earliest remaining appointment request -- on Dec. 20, 2004, until Jan. 26, 2005, when he asked "the question," -- the White House press office requested and received an appointment for Guckert every day

During that span, Guckert shows up on the Secret Service access control logs only six times. If examined without context, these records give the impression that Guckert was one of the pack when clearly he was not.

Despite repeatedly parroting the Bush administration's agenda as "news;" despite receiving a "stipend" from a dummy news agency co-founded by a "friend" of Karl Rove and the current Chairman of the Williamson County, Tex., Republican Party; despite being denied credentials as a journalist by a committee of journalists, Guckert had an open invitation to the briefing room as far back as the current records extend.