[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.

[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?

[cyncooper]

See my post #26.

[Howlin]

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

I'd like to know who ELSE she has gone after.