Congresswoman Calls on Special Prosecutor to Investigate Gannon's Role in Plame Leak

Office of Louise Slaughter | Feb. 11, 2005 | Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY

[seamus]

The attacks on Jeff Gannon continue. What evidence does Rep. Slaughter present to even suggest Gannon had anything to do with the Plame leak? I thought it was leaked to Bob Novak.

It's pretty scary when a journalist, or blogger, or any private citizen can prompt members of Congress to call for a criminal investigation just for being pro-Bush.

[OXENinFLA]

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

PING!!!

This goes along with your earlier thread.

[vbmoneyspender]

Rep. Slaughter, a long-time advocate for media reform and accountability

The amazing thing is that people are able to right this kind of stuff without laughing themselves to death.

[Dog]

They are going to try and tie the Plame/Wilson leak to FR....you just watch.

[Madeleine Ward]

Is this abuse of power?

[Mr. K]

"And just who let Hillary have 900 FBI files?" she was later heard to ask?


(HA!)

[vbmoneyspender]

oops - right = write. I hope Rep. Slaughter's online accountability brigade doesn't charge me with felonious mispelling of a homonym.

[G.Mason]

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[Lazamataz]

They are going to try and tie the Plame/Wilson leak to FR....you just watch.

It's a damned shame that O'MALLEY CHEATS ON HIS WIFE!!!!

[sam_paine]

It's pretty scary when a journalist, or blogger, or any private citizen can prompt members of Congress to call for a criminal investigation just for being pro-Bush.

Scary, but not surprising....

[Patti_ORiley]

This really is a 'non-event' which the lame democrats will get no political mileage from. Gannon is as much a 'journalist' as any one of the MSM elites. Even 'if' Gannon did get his hands on some confidential material, this is what MSM elites have been doing for decades. What a bunch of blather.

[jriemer]

They are going to try and tie the Plame/Wilson leak to FR....you just watch.

People at FR have been posting what was already leaked in the MSM about Plame/Wilson since day one. That story didn't start with us - not by a long shot.

[pieces of time]

Makes you wonder if the water in DC really has too much lead.
These brown shirts are going after very basic rights: guns and speech. Frightening indeed!

[Bogey78O]

Gannon is no worse than Helen Thomas in his ability to toss softballs at the right targets. His crime is simply not being a liberal.

[seamus]

I find it extremely unlikely that Gannon was anywhere near the Plame stuff. I've spoken to a friend in the White House Press Corps about this, and he said Gannon was basically a fly on the wall. He came in for the breifings, asked his question daily and left. He was not within the inner circle of reporters who get regular chatty access to Bush's flacks, which would be step one of many to gain the trust of getting anything leaked to him.

And at that, this White House doesn't leak anything anyway. If they did, however, Gannon would be the last person who'd get it. If he actually broke a story that embarassed the big boys, McClellan would never hear the end of it. He doesn't need or want that kind of aggravation.

So the idea that Gannon was leaked anything -- least of all the Plame stuff (even by accident) -- is prepostrous.

[End Times Sentinel]

We now know that 'Jeff Gannon' had access to classified CIA documents that contained the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Maybe it's my public skool edumaction, but how do they "know" this?  Wouldn't the identity of an undercover CIA Op be held in a secret document?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Peach]

Memo to Louise: You're being used. But you probably already know that.

[lonevoice]

It's ridiculous, preposterous, absurd, and they know it. Maybe it's time for these Dem hacks to ask if any of the documents Sandy Berger stuffed in his socks and smuggled out of the national security archives have anything to do with Plame. <<--insert eye roll smilie here

[Iluvlabs not libs]

"Rep. Slaughter, a long-time advocate for media reform and accountability."

As laughable as the UN appointing Cuba to the Human Rights Commission.

Why does Slaughter say "we now know he had access to CIA documents"? Is she baseing this on the crap their spewing over the Daily Kos?