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| Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD. | |||
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February 11, 2005
If the "Jeff Gannon" story strikes you as similar to the Craig Spence prostitution scandal in the Reagan/Bush Administration, you aren't alone.
Spence was a conservative lobbyist during the Reagan-Bush years. The New York Times called him "Washington's ultimate power broker." He was also running a gay prostitution ring which employed adolescent boys. As perks of the job, he treated his boys to after-hour tours of the White House. In The Washington Times of August 9, 1989, Spence "hinted the tours were arranged by top level" persons, including Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor Donald Gregg, whose name also figures prominently in the October Surprise story. The paper added that "Spence, according to friends, was also carrying out homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA."
[Stirring the White House honey pot - Rigourous Institution - 02-10-05]
The story soon disappeared entirely and Washington and the media proceeded to pretend as though nothing had ever happened. According to a Washington Times reporter, the paper trail was quickly covered up. Some 20,000 documents pertaining to the case were sealed by court order and the U.S. Attorney’s office issued a gag order on the release of information. By the time that Craig Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel less than five months after the story first broke, he had been all but forgotten. He had earlier told a friend: "I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won’t be."
[The Pedophocracy, Part II: ... to Washington - David McGowan - August 2001]
Again to a previously asked question: How well does Karl Rove know GOPUSA's Bobby Eberle? Rove rarely does interviews, but somehow managed to find time for "Jeff Gannon's" boss, Texas Republican Bobby Eberle. A couple of months prior, Jeff Gannon claimed access to a highly confidential intelligence memo he used to smear Joe Wilson and whose source he said he could not reveal. How did this former prostitute manage to obtain a highly confidential document widely known to have originated from the White House?
GOPUSA.com, a Web site run by Bobby Eberle, a Houston engineer with no previous journalism experience, scored an interview with President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove.
[Freewheeling 'bloggers' are rewriting rules of journalism - USAToday - 12-30-03]
In "Jeff Gannon's" online bio (now deleted) he strangely inserted the following. I don't know many journalists who feel their bio is the place to let people know you are prepared to defend yourself. But maybe "Gannon" feels he has reason to.
My weapon of choice. Beretta 9mm. This semi-automatic model, characterized by a solid locked breech system, with a rotating barrel, takes advantage of the maximum energy received during firing to produce a very low recoil. This pistol is particularly suitable for personal defense.
filed under: Political Subterfuge
