I'm not going to go that far...the White House press office did their background checks and found him to be no more a threat than Helen Thomas...agreed, that's cutting it thin, but there ya go. I'd heard he did have some involvement with developing websites,or webnames, but had left before they came to fruition. I had not heard anything from him involving administering them, unless it's new
the press has a nasty habit of parsing words, then allowing the echo chamber to expound in editorial largesse
He was posting here for quite a while under his "Jeff Gannon" name:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=Jeff+Gannon