OP/ED: What today's revelation adds to the story

Three days ago I wrote this:

Well, I personally think that he has something to hide. Or something to hide for someone in the White House who still has a job today. The real story hasn't even started yet.

• Why hasn't the Valerie Plame case been brought to prosecution? Someone leaked her name, and that was a crime. The list of possible criminals is pretty short. Why haven't we seen justice?
• How did Jeff Gannon, a man who wasn't even a "journalist" two years earlier, get right into the middle of all of this? Who gave him access to the CIA documents? Did he tell everything he knew to the Justice Department?

So yes, there is more work to do. More threads to unravel and more of the story to tell. Like the Right did with Rathergate, we're doing it with this story. The difference is that our story ends with who committed a crime. An egregious crime against our country.

Someone in the White House put political gain for the President ahead of our national security, exposing an undercover CIA agent who operated covertly in the Arab world. In the middle of a war in the Mideast, someone in the White House diminished our nation's intelligence gathering capability. A crime against our national security at a time of war was committed. And someone needs to be held accountable.

What has today's story accomplished? This:

• How did Jeff Gannon, a potential gay prostitute who wasn't even a "journalist" two years earlier, get right into the middle of all of this? Who gave him access to the CIA documents? Did he tell everything he knew to the Justice Department?

That's all it did. But that's a lot.

By replacing "man" with "gay prostitute" you have a FULLER story. What John's post today did was to tell a little more of the truth to this story. From the pictures on this post, it's my opinion that The Truth is that Jeff Gannon was a male prostitute before, and perhaps during, his time as a White House "reporter."

So I'm supposed to believe that what bloggers can dig up online means one of three things:

• The Secret Service did a bang up job and can't protect the White House

or

• The Secret Service knew what he was and let him pass into the West Wing on a daily basis regardless, again compromising White House security

or

• The Secret Service knew that he was a prostitute and was instructed to let him pass into the White House

Now following this, we have the fact that within four months of his arrival in the White House he is one of six people in the middle of the Valerie Plame affair. The fact that five months earlier he was a gay prostitute makes the story all that more bizarre.

So where can this story go now? I see at least one or two options.

1. Congress, with its oversight capabilities, can subpoena the White House and Secret Service records to investigate how Gannon got into the White House on a regular basis.
2. Patrick Fitzgerald can use this information to further his own investigation.

John's post today gave people more of the story, more of The Truth. That's a very good thing.

-- Rob in Baltimore