[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.

[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.