Grover Norquist.
http://ancapistan.typepad.com/unfairwitness/2005/07/is_there_a_norq.htmlThursday, July 21, 2005
Is there a Norquist/Rove/Gannon nexus in the Plame scandal?
UPDATE: Time to bump this back up, as Gannon is in the news again.....
Analysis of the relevance of the Gannon interview of Ambassador Joseph Wilson in which he refers to a now-notorious INR memo naming Joseph Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent seems to hit a brick wall as people try to imagine how a nobody like Gannon got his hands on a sensitive classified government document. I’d like to suggest that dismissing Guckert as an obscure wingnut is a mistake rooted in a misunderstanding of the way conservative/Republican activism works in Washington. Guckert actually associated regularly with some of the most powerful people in Washington.
Joshua Micah Marshall on TPM quotes an NYT article from July 16 and asks a couple of questions that have been bugging me as well. Josh: “Who requested that the memo be written? Who actually wrote it? Why does it contain the inaccuracies the CIA claims it does? Who were the administration officials who continued to circulate the classified document to conservative news outlets even after Plame's identity was initially revealed? And how did it get into the hands of Jeff Gannon?”
Well, I have a theory about the last two questions. When Karl Rove wants to distribute information to The Base, whom does he call? Here’s my nomination:
Yes, that would be Grover Norquist, friend of Karl Rove and Conservative BaseMeister. Notice who’s just over Grover’s shoulder in that November 23, 2003 AJC photo. Yes, that would indeed be JD Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon.
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