Reply #70: There are agencies

[H2O Man]

that the public has never heard of. There are others that people have heard of, but never give much thought to. Now here is something to think about: any "normal" person who makes "the news" -- take even an abnormal run-away bride -- becomes an open book immediately. Their family background and personal life becomes public. CNN, Fox, and the Daily News will have photographs and paragraphs filled with details that verge on obscenity in exposing a person's private life. Immediately, or at most, in 24 hours.

Now think of Jeff Gannon. Six months after he became news, rather than distoted it, he remains a mystery. All that is "known" about him is some nonsense he posted on the internet to distract attention from who he really is, and who he works for. What does it take to keep an identity that secret?