[cyncooper]

While my spaghetti boils I'm popping in and just reading your post and this caught my eye:

Slaughter also claimed that according to the Washington Post, Gannon was "the only person known to have access to a CIA secret document about the case of Valerie Plame" and claimed "this shows to me that this is a man who has extraordinary good White House credentials".

I don't have to time to find a link for you and the thread but let me summarize: Jeff Gannon got an interview with Joe Wilson in the fall of 2003 and asked him about a purported CIA memo that documented that Plame (Wilson's bride) recommended him for the Niger trip, contrary to Wilson's denials. Wilson claimed no knowledge of such a memo and at any rate, continued to deny the assertion.

Gannon posted on FR (to my memory) that his sources were NOT this administration, and the end of the story is that the 9/11 Commission got that unclassified document and it was exactly as had been described to Gannon. I am not sure if the memo was always unclassified or if it was declassified for the committee, but my memory is it was called "unclassified" meaning it was only "secret" because of rogue CIA personnel who were pushing their anti-Bush agenda.

Time to eat...I hope my appetite perks up because this is making me sick, especially after witnessing smarm personified by Olbermann.

[devolve]

from my archives :

- source : Washington Post

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Marilyn Monroe + Golden Oldies spy music

http://pro.lookingat.us/Goldfinger.html

[cyncooper]

Slaughter also claimed that according to the Washington Post, Gannon was "the only person known to have access to a CIA secret document about the case of Valerie Plame" and claimed "this shows to me that this is a man who has extraordinary good White House credentials".

Cross referencing my find from last night.

Jeff Gannon did an interview with Joe Wilson where he asked him about this memo. The interview was published October 28, 2003

Then we hear how the WaPo (which is involved in the Plame Game) is pushing a bogus story Talon news is the only outlet to know about the secret memo

BUT

Last night I found an old FR thread based on an October 17, 2003 WSJ article about that very memo.

Clearly it took some time to do it, but the dems devised this spin. The WaPo piece pushing the false story showed up at the end of December so it took awhile to contrive and now here it is, resurrected.

Next I need to find the actual WaPo story. I want to see the bylines.