Phoenix Woman alerted us to this March 7, 2004 thread from Free Republic. The thread is about, ironically, journalistic standards. (I kid you not.) Here's what "Jeff" had to say:
To: kristinnHuh, interesting. Jeff tells Free Republic that he was "subpeonaed" by the Grand Jury. Well, that's not what he told Editor and Publisher Magazine on February 11, 2005:
Well, as many of you now know, I have been subpeonaed by the Federal grand jury for testimony in the CIA leak probe.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092073/posts
Somehow, Talon News (an internet based news service) is credible enough to be interrogated. (RKA NOTE: Emphasis mine)
Five Washington Post reporters have also been called, along with Andrea Mitchell and Tim Russert and others.
24 posted on 03/07/2004 6:49:32 AM PST by Jeff Gannon (Listen to my radio show "Jeff Gannon's Washington" on www.RIGHTALK.com)
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Guckert said that contrary to many press reports, he was never subpoenaed by the special prosecutor and has never testified before a grand jury in the case. But he said he was interviewed by two FBI agents in his home for about 90 minutes last year.So, which is it "Jeff"? Did you testify or not?
"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more,” he said. “I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."
Although he hinted that he had not seen a classified CIA document after all, he added, "I am not going to speak to that. It goes to something of a nature I do not want to discuss."
Further on down the post, there is this little exchange:
To: Jeff GannonHe actually meant to say Walter Duranty. Why was he criticizing Walter Pincus? For the same reason that Plame was outed - because someone dared to report on the fact that there was no evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
I see Walter Pincus is on the list. I wonder who'll pay for his legal representation, The Washington Post or the CIA?
30 posted on 03/07/2004 10:42:47 AM PST by kristinn (Blue Star Mothers' Troop Support Rally March 13 in Wash., D.C.)
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To: kristinn
or the World Workers Party!
31 posted on 03/07/2004 11:49:44 AM PST by Jeff Gannon (Listen to my radio show "Jeff Gannon's Washington" on www.RIGHTALK.com)
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To: Jeff Gannon
Ouch.
32 posted on 03/07/2004 12:47:47 PM PST by kristinn (Blue Star Mothers' Troop Support Rally March 13 in Wash., D.C.)
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To: kristinn
Isn't Pincus the Will Duranty of our generation?
33 posted on 03/07/2004 12:55:08 PM PST by Jeff Gannon (Listen to my radio show "Jeff Gannon's Washington" on www.RIGHTALK.com)
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From the Washington Post, March 16, 2003:
Despite the Bush administration's claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, U.S. intelligence agencies have been unable to give Congress or the Pentagon specific information about the amounts of banned weapons or where they are hidden, according to administration officials and members of Congress.Somehow raising questions about a nation's rationale for going to war makes Pincus a Communist sympathizer. I just prefer to call him a journalist, something "Jeff Gannon" was not.
Senior intelligence analysts say they feel caught between the demands from White House, Pentagon and other government policymakers for intelligence that would make the administration's case "and what they say is a lack of hard facts," one official said.
"They have only circumstantial evidence . . . nothing that proves this amount or that," said an individual who has regularly been briefed by the CIA.
-- Rob in Baltimore
(In case the thread disappears, I've created a PDF archive here.)
