A Clarification and qualification to a Kansas state intelligence agent.

YOU THOUGHT CAMP GITMO AND ABU GHARIB WAS SOMETHING NEW TO OUR HISTORY?

MORE "SPECULATIVE" NEWS TO CONSIDER AFTER TWENTY YEARS, KISSINGER, NIXON & THE OVERTHROW OF A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT (1975).

Edited excerpts from an interrogation conducted in June 1985. Citations of location and appearence of record listed below in the discussion of "speculative journalism" versus "embedded journalism."

BEGINNING OF INTERROGATION EXCERPT

How old are you?

I am twenty eight.

That means you were only nineteen when you were assigned to work for DINA (the former name of Chile's national intelligence agency).

No, I never worked for DINA. I belonged to SIFA, the intelligence service of the air force. At that time we had problems with DINA; we thought that they were not good enough. That's what my bosses said. Although we were fewer in number, we worked more effectively. For example, it was our group that arrested the heads of the MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left).

Where did you take the people who were arrested?

In the early days we took them to the Academia de Guerra. But we were not in charge of the prisoners. We had no idea if they were released or tried. I do know that there was plenty of torture. The first time I witnessed it, the victim was a girl. I was shocked. She was from the MIR.

Describe her.

She was very young, middle - class; she was blond.

Why did it shock you?

I had never seen anything like that before. I was among the strong guards, but ... they took her to a bathroom and they beat the hell out of her. I saw them.

How did Contreras Maluje's death really happen? (Maluje, a high - ranking official in Chile's Communist Party, was abducted in 1975. - ed. note.)

He was handed over to us by a man who had been arrested. I don't remember what position this man held. We called him "Jose." He was important among the Juventud Comunista (Communist Youth).

What happened to Maluje?

I remember this mission quite well, because I participated in it. We arrested him along with a relative or friend of his in San Bernardo. We brought along "Jose," who was still under arrest. By then we had arrested practically all the members of the Juventud Comunista, except Maluje.

When we interrogated "Jose," he told us that Contreras Maluje was in a house in San Bernardo. He said, "If you let me go, I'll make contact with him and you can arrest him."

It was very difficult to arrest Maluje. He was a strong guy. We took him blindfolded to our headquarters and interrogated him about the other men we had arrested. He refused to talk about them and said he had not seen them in a long time. We took off his blindfold and he saw all the men. I think he realized right away that "Jose" had given him away. Then he told us he could lead us to a high - ranking communist in Calle Nataniel. We all discussed this - knowing Maluje's importance in the Communist Party, we were afraid that he might be plotting something.

We decided to let him go and to follow him. He started walking toward Avenida Matta and we trailed him at a distance in a car. Then we heard on the radio that someone had jumped in front of a bus. We rushed to the scene and found that a big crowd had already gathered around him.

What happened next?

His wrists had been broken the night before when we had tortured him. When he saw us he started yelling that we were from DINA and that we wanted to kill him. He kept shouting his name and asking people to tell the Maluje Pharmacy in Concepcion [his family business] what was happening to him. The police didn't know what to do. One of the policemen took the bus driver behind the bus and told him to get the hell out of there. Maluje was almost unconscious, but when we tried to get him into one of the cars he started yelling again that he had been tortured, holding out his broken wrists to the people. He even asked the police to help him. We got him inside a light blue car, a Fiat 125, which was registered under the name of the director of intelligence of the air force, who had no idea we had his car. We should never have used it; that was a mistake.

Where did you take Maluje?

To our headquarters n Calle 18. He had a broken arm and his head was bleeding. He was taken from the car like a sack of potatoes. He was kicked badly.

When was he killed?

That same night. He spent the whole day in jail. He was constantly beaten up, just for the hell of it, because at that point it was useless trying to interrogate him. A policeman kicked him in the face and broke his nose. When I arrived the next morning I learned that he was going to be buried, a group of policemen left very early to dig a grave.

You told me you knew of an operation in which the disappeared were thrown from a helicopter?

I am familiar with one operation, but I know there were many more. It was in 1975, when we were goiing after the Juventad Comunista.

About ten or fifteen people were taken up in an air force helicopter. Among them was a former councilman of Renca; he was lame, pretty old. The rest were probably those who had been arrested with him.

Were they alive?

Yes, but they were drugged. The had been given some drugs, but not very strong ones. A colleague of mine who participated in the operation told me later that one of the prisoners had woken up in the helicopter and then been hit on the head with an iron pipe. They were all thrown into the ocean.

Was something done to them before they were thrown into the ocean?

They were opened.

What do you mean by that?

Their stomachs were slit open so they wouldn't float. There were army commanders aboard the helicopter, and I was told that they did this with their knives.

Have you had any emotional problems?

Yes, I was under treatment once. Many of us have been hospitalized.

END OF INTERROGATION EXCERPT

(From an interview with Andres Antonio Valenzuela Morales, the first defector from the Chilean secret services to describe publicly his activities under the Pinochet regime. Valenzuela was interviewed in August 1984 by Monica Gonzalez, a reporter for Cauce, one of the main opposition publications in Chile. Pinochet banned Cauce and several other publications before the interview could be published. The interview subsequently appeared in Diario de Caracas, a Venezuelan newspaper, and in Mensaje, a magazine published in Chile by the Catholic Church.)

Bush inhaled, snorted & drank until God & Politics called, yeah right! Hypocrisy in America knows no bounds!

I have had several relatives and friends who have suffered in this society from the stigma of illegal drug use and addiction. The last thirty years of living in this country as an adult I have documented a long list of heinous hypocrisies, from a brutal foreign policy toward weaker smaller countries to cruelty towards its indigent and working poor. Nothing has so influenced my perception as the sheer waste of humans by this system's massive incarceration for non - violent illegal drug use.

I find it horrifying that an untreated drug addict, who may in fact have organic brain damage from his long multi-chemical addictions, has so much unbridled power. A power that has become so insular and militant to be feared by most of the world's people.

It should not be too surprising considering that so many, an estimated one in eight Americans, to cause one of the largest best sellers in fiction to be a series of books financed and written by religious fundamentalists - about Armageddeon.

Yet now, as the tape recordings made by Bush's friend, Douglas Wead in 1999 are surfacing where in the master's voice sordid puny excuses are offered for non - disclosure I find new depths of hypocrisy and duplicity in his regime. The tapes were made during Bush's second term as the governor of Texas when he was assembling his crime family minions from the energy, banking and intelligence industries.

Wead's reasoning for releasing some of the tapes to the public I am sure is that most people don't need professional medical rehabilitation, just a regular visit to the confounded "Old Rugged Cross" and the threat of eternal damnation to get cured. Why not, little else is offered to those rotting in jail - become a Christian and receive favorable treatment.

I have had people rot in jail for years while this man and his other rich religious buddies plea bargain their way into drug rehabilitation centers, avoid jail sentencing and emerge intact undamaged in reputation and profession. Even by his own wife's admission, all George Bush did was wake up one morning and told her and the girls that they were going to church and that he had quit drinking.

The common inequities of a most unbecoming country. What an empire, or as Gore Vidal's blind grand father said once while listening to his grandson's descriptions of the construction of the then new government buildings being built in the early 1900s of Washington D. C., "what wonderful ruins they will make."

"Certainly that was how the justice system worked when Bush and Wead had their candid chats. The Texas politician couldn't reassure his friend that he hadn't used cocaine, let alone marijuana, but as governor he was imprisoning young people unlucky enough to be arrested in possession of those narcotics, often for draconian mandatory-minimum sentences. He always cherished his image as a tough, swaggering, law-and-order politician who didn't hesitate to imprison teenagers. But that isn't what happens to people from good families.

His niece Noelle Bush went through a drug-rehab program and was released two years ago. His friend Rush Limbaugh went through rehab and has returned to berating the less fortunate on the radio, without doing one day of time. "

The full impact of this decision by Bush to withhold the truth of his drug usage (most surely in the national security interests, he mentally wraps everything in) is elaborated by a better writer, Joe Conanson at: Bush Dodges as Addicts Rot in Jail .

What are the military recruiters doing in your local high schools?

Co - editor to the outstanding Project for an Old American Century, Jack Dalton, a Vietnam Veteran has written a very interesting essay encouraging adult people to protect High School age children from recruiters and some interesting ideas on how to do it at: dalt_1058 .

I know that the militarization of even my son's elementary school seems to be in full swing when he came home one day this year with some clothing paraphenalia linking the anti-drug D.A.R.E. group with the Kanas National Guard. Dalton, a writer I pay special attention to posits the philosophical about recruiters allowed free reign at the high schools, even as national educational funding is being slashed; where even in Kansas the funding controversy is heated without adequate opposition to the Iraq War.

Do minors have First Amendment "free speech" rights to oppose militry recruiters on their campus? What are school administrators and local school boards responsibilities to the students? Check out Jack's essay at the hyperlink above.

Ward Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?

If you haven't been to Counterpunch before, you are missing a very hard hitting newsletter; neither embedded and many times not "speculative" as some of my readers have criticized my forwards. I am working on that, but in the meantime here is some good stuff, lengthy but very timely: Ward Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It? For those of you who don't know Ward has been the target of Colorado right wingers from the Governor on down for his remarks concerning certain victims of the 911 attack. Check it out when you have the time.

Negroponte, Honduras and Iraq - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council

Here is a page detailing the big shot ambassador's career work and his callousness toward basic human rights Negroponte, Honduras and Iraq - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council . Last night my publisher came out to the barn to report that he had just returned from Nortonville's Old Pool Hall. He had just finished having quite a discussion with a young fellow who just got out of the U. S. Army and lucked out of the Iraq disaster. The discussion ranged from the comfort the guy had felt after returning home after experiencing the callousness of people and how people can have some of the cruelest intentions.

People who seem in "authority" but who veil their orders to their subordinantes to manipulate simple honest people to advance their position.

Simple honest hard working people are daily abused by fine looking people who seem intelligent and polite, manipulating others for selfish cruel intentions.

He was happy to be home and I welcomed him and his sentiments. The villages have many people like this coming back from the outside world and realizing just how bad it is getting "out there."

And there is a callous disregard among many of the older people in the villages toward the young working people. My publisher learned last night that sadly another honest young working couple had placed their home up for sale in Nortonville. The town in emptying out of viable jobs and businesses slowly it is going under and no one seems to know, least the current members of the government about what to do to stop it.

Honduran CSI units and his embassy buddies are saying he's a War Criminal. He's going to be our new Director of National Intelligence!

What do you know about the new Director of National Intelligence?

His Honduran embassy buddies have been talking lately, er, spilling their guts about how close they were to him back in the good old days when torturing commie dissidents (meaning anyone they didn't like) was okay. Hear some of this on the audio blog posted above from "Morning Sedition" on Air America.

If you see this man, RUN!

John Negraponte - Veteran war criminal from Raygun's Central America contra wars - currently working as the appointed "ambassador" in Iraq. See his bio and eyeball at http://cryptome.org or listen to the audio blog from this mornings Air America "Morning Sedition" posted above. The man, John Negraponte has his children describe him as a "gentle, kind man." Nuns allege he had his U.S. trained Honduran generals throw their sisters alive from helicopters. Check it out!

Naked Compassionate Conservatives Flying through the Air! Sounds exciting.

The Passion of George - Police Staters, Unite!

This image from Bruno in Brussels from indymedia (Belgium) tell it all ... so click the audioblog short above from last nights Mike Malloy Show on Air America. Are you ready to get naked and fly through the air?

Uh, oh! I've learned audio blogging!

Below some audio blogs from the Mike Malloy Show on Air America which I am sure some of my Kansas readers in Nortonville will enjoy!

They follow in some order - the first one below is about some dumbass who was picked up at an airport for trying to fly to the Middle East to collect the 25 million dollar reward on Usama Bin Ladin and retrieve some stolen uranium. Now he's gone forever.

A couple are Malloy ranting on the right wingers idiocy and uninformed consent to Bushism.

Just play them for your buddies at work - I dare yah!

Like they say at blogspot with this new initiative "revolutionizing the revolution!"

Right Wingers "Lusting for War" - "as much sense as Shrek 2!"

Women in Iraq no better off after Saddam!

Limbaugh and Hannity have turned their brains into jelly!

Bush arrives at EU, Brussels shuts down, police clampdown like DC Inauguration! It's a "Mandate" the Smirking Chimp is popular!

American Legion Blackmailing Bloomington MN High School

This came from an indymedia post today! More information below:


High school student anti-war activists plan to hold press conference and demonstration after school today in protest of school administration’s refusal to guarantee free speech

Bloomington, MN Under pressure from the American Legion, the Bloomington Public Schools Superintendent Gary Prest has banned Kennedy student anti-war activists from setting up a counter-recruitment table today, while allowing military recruiters unfettered access to their fellow students.

For weeks the students in Youth Against War & Racism had been planning to set up an anti-war information table today (February 23), when the military recruiters are scheduled to table at Kennedy High. They had obtained permission and reserved a table.

But Tuesday morning their principal got a visit to his office by representatives from the American Legion, who informed him that unless he stopped them from tabling, they would cease donating money to Bloomington Public Schools. Principal Simmons also got a call from the District Superintendent, who had also met with the American Legion, who also instructed him to shut down their organization’s action.

This repression of our rights follows months of negotiations with our Principal to get the right to set up a table. Last December the Bloomington School District lawyer finally gave his opinion that Youth Against War & Racism had the right to set up a counter-recruitment information table when military recruiters came to Kennedy.

On December 8th the recruiters came, and their counter-recruitment tabling commenced. Over 230 students signed their petition against military recruiters being allowed into Kennedy High in the following days.Now their Superintendent and Principal are allowing themselves to be blackmailed by the American Legion.

The students are holding a press conference after school today at 2:30pm, in the Kennedy High lunch room (9701 Nicollet Ave., Bloomington).

Here are three things you can do TODAY to help:

1. Call the Bloomington Schools Superintendent, Gary Prest (952-681-6402) and Kennedy High Principal Ronald Simmons (952-681-5050). Call right now and urge them to respect our free speech rights and to stand up against the American Legion’s blackmail of our school district.

2. Show your support by coming to our after-school protest and teach-in today at 2:30pm, in the Kennedy High lunch room (9701 Nicollet Ave., Bloomington).

3. Forward this solidarity appeal on to your friends, family, and any email lists you are on.

Join the Round Rooster Barn Circuit by leaving a comment to this post and leave me your email address. I never share my list with anyone!

Iraq Dispatches: Stories from Fallujah

Iraq Dispatches: Stories from Fallujah

Iraq Dispatches: What They�re Not Telling You About the �Election�

Iraq Dispatches: What They�re Not Telling You About the �Election�

I thought this was a fitting demonstration of U. S. imperialism to remind readers of all the great things ruling class foreign policy has done to my fellow citizens in Kansas who seem to suffer from amnesia. Oops! they forgot Chile in 1971, Dominican Republic in '66, British Guyana through the 80s, and a few others. Geuss they had only enough props for the parade. 

HST Dead! Gonzo Journalism Alive and Well! Here are some hot places!

The BBC announced this morning that
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
IS DEAD.

NOAM CHOMSKY said the elites were “scared to death of the sixties.” Hunter Thompson the old Owl of Owl Creek, Colorado did more than his share of stoking the coals under elite’s asses during those times and in true fashion here are my send – ups to those on the Round Rooster Barn Circuit.

Well the suits in the suites are getting the chills!

It’s time for gonzo journalism in your town, state and country.

We don’t need some cosmic plan to know what time it is, or a tank full of gas in Disneyland! Like people are saying, “the more you watch, the less you know.”

WE’RE ALL ABANDONED BABIES IN AMERICA!

I have decided to celebrate in the true spirit of Hunter S. Thompson to do as he did and throw some journalistic bags of INTERNET rats over the security fences at Rockefeller Center, NYC; Turner Broadcasting Center, Atlanta, Ga; phony Fox News, and at the geo - political fault line located across the street from Lafayette park, FROM YOU KNOW WHERE, IN that part of WHITE washINGTON, D.c.!!!!

Don’t know what kind of freaking fundamentalist fanatics (FFF) are standing around the world famous women’s clinics in Wichita, KS? Here is the internet answer to the Hee – Haw Hoodlums hanging around yelling at women and getting their jollies jumping on the Bush bandwagon to bring back meaning to coat hangers.

For a good time go to: http://www.maggotpunks.com/ that’s right “maggot punks” cos that’s what those good ole nuts at the clinic call the fun loving folks who made this great web site! And if you see your grandparents picture there, tell them about it! You Kansans out there, please click, kiss and share this web site with your local friends! It tells all.


THE Media War Begins.
Let’s have some fun in memory of Hunter!
The web blogs are on the march … are you bored its time to get sore!

Here’s the one that broke the news on the gay prostitute Bush plant who played soft ball with Scotty and lib – baited Bush during the last weak election. Go check the “World of Crap” blog out at:

http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/

Another tell all multimedia shot at “Jeff” what’s his name with video is available at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/index.html

Their “Top Ten Conservative Idiot” list is always great to watch. “Jeff” has made it to the top to #1, finally – and you deserve to watch the videos of his hard hitting questions he asked Scotty over the last year or so.


Sick of sugar laced, petro – oiled Mc Freedom Fries? Try out one of my favorite friends in France – Barry’s Freedom Fries Menu and the others at:

MOVE TO FRANCE!Help is at Hand: (Just a click away)'FRIENDS OF FRANCE' * FRIENDS OF FRANCE - News & Views* The 'Friends of France' Learning CircleOther Important Blogs:* The Freedom Fries Menu - News only* FPF Correspondent In France - News only * Barry Fockler - News & Personal Views* Christ Against Capitalism - News and Theological Views * Rumour has it that... - Political Satire & Humour

A HOT NEW MOVIE HOT LINKED TO HOT (AND FREE) GRANDMOTHER HIP HOP MUSIC!

The announcement of Danny Schecter’s new movie IS circulating around the internet and now it’s coming out in a few theaters.

Alternative rag the Boston Phoenix says, “it’s more cohesive and devastating that Fahrenheit 911.” wOw! That’s saying something.

Get the word out! Spread the news, no Weapons of Mass Destruction here, but there sure is some conglomerated corporate Weapons of Mass Deception dumbing down our old folks in front of their gadgets.

Go here to find out more: http://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.php


Go to polarity1’s web site below for great multimedia stuff, free download mp3 music files (you’ll need to download some more free plug-ins window people) be sure to look around for the songs: “News Goo,” “Media Wars (the more you watch the less you know)” and the great suicide bomber wish hit “70 Virgins”. These are great songs to get your grandmother on the dance floor with and they are FREE to pump on your pc speakers! Click below to start the tour of Polar Levine’s huge web site and find those free songs! You Grandmother’s out there, go for it, it’s good stuff to bump with your kids and shake those old wood floors! Calmly click below:

http://www.polarity1.com/mediawars.html


LONG LIVE M. T. LIGGET of MULLINVILLE, KANSAS!
CUSSING CURMUDGEONS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
Anybody remember, or check out that hot site Truthout.org we plugged last week? Their hilarious and informative “RED STATE ROAD TRIP” has been completed with it’s 12 day round – up, and gluttons for punishment that we are here in Kansas are honored that the infamous curmudgeon anarchist political junk artist, M. T. Ligget of Mullinville, Kansas has another profane spot on it! Take the whole tour and watch the feathers fly, quickly click below and get ready to rumble through Bush Country …

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm


And last, and most importantly, go to our favorite web site. This place is one of the most important and huge web sites that is safe for conservatives to cruise on and has a healthy share of humor. It deserves a monthly micro donation from each one of us on the Round Robin Barn Circuit. Book mark and regularly check out the great folks at:

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/downloads.htm

where an audio download is available of “The Daily Show” Jon Stewart calling out PBS newbie Tucker Carlson “UNFILTERED” (my ass) on the floor. Download it and keep it around for party play!

HAVE A HUNTER S. THOMPSON WEEK!

AND KEEP A CRITICAL EYE ON THE HORIZON!

More snaps from the EU HQ during Bush's stay. They have fun protesting there and the Belgium Indymedia web site has a great short movie of the young people running in the streets, jumping up and down, cranking an old fashioned air raid siren, street parades and ending with some comedian burning a home - made American flag! 

Our friends in Brussels celebrating the arrival of the chief Smirking Chimp's arrival at the European Union HQ! These snaps courtesy the fine folks at Indymedia (Belgium) and Henk at the Foreign Press Foundation (FPF).

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Herman will most likely go for hanging us from the lamposts!

I note that for general information the railroad companies left town and pulled up the tracks twenty or so years ago, but the berms and beds where the tracks were once are still quite visible. One part of the track goes through the back yard of Margaret Rathert's home and has been a source of contention with Honorable Mayor Ackmann, who wanted to annex that part of her property for the village baseball park. Mrs. Rathert had objected to the acquisition so Mayor Herman dipped into his bucket of mean - spirits and had one of his cops drive on the old railroad track bed and photograph her old truck sitting in the back yard without a Kansas license plate. He then had her prosecuted in village court for a "trash citation."

He didn't tie Mrs. Margaret Rathert, a widow, to the railroad tracks or whip her with his lash, but merely put him on his enemies list for continual harassment.

Meanwhile Barry from France reports this on the news wire!

Published on Saturday, February 5, 2005 by Reuters

What's going on in Nortonville?

Folks in Nortonville were upset when Mayor Ackmann evicted Little Nel and her sick old mother from their house on Main street.

Little Nel, an attractive young woman, said that Herman Ackmann, the mayor, had offered to let them stay in their home if she would willingly have sex with him. Nel, a virtuous girl, correctly refused the offer.

The next thing she knew, she was being tied to a railroad track by the incumbent mayor. Little Nell pleaded with him to untie her, but he refused.

Luckily for her, the Lone Ranger and Tonto came along just in time to free her from her dire fate.

This is not the first time that the mayor has had problems with the good people of Nortonville. Herman Ackmann, aka Simon Legree, is famous for running poor folks out of town. He also encourages greasy landlords, of which he is one, to rob the working young people of the town.

Even small businesses have been run out of town if they don't jump when Ackmann cracks his whip.

A local activist referred to Ackermann and his cronies as a bunch of "mean stupid corrupt liars in our local government!" You can't help wondering, will he be the next one to be tied to the railroad tracks!?

© 2005 Reuters

So goes the news from beautiful Nortonville, Ks.!

GEE! The scum is boiling up to the top about the Jeff Gannon guy!

Get the latest:

http://www.crookandliars.com/2005/02/10.html#a1554

This was brought to our hay loft and our thick headed potato chip lovin' attention by Kris and Pauline, faithful readers of The Fighin' Cock flyer!

Thanks, Gals!

White House trashes Helen Thomas and instead ... (what?!} Jeff Gannon, who?

Well, I'll be dippety dowah dippety day, bloggers have busted a shill who takes up time asking Bush softball questions on national prime time as a gofer for the GOP who was known by the White House to be using an alias - and considered a frequent floater among right wing media starlots. The fine blog World O' Crap dumped this the other day:

Remember "Jeff Gannon," the White House reporter who lobs softballs at Scottie McClellan when the other mean reporters won't let up with the real questions?

The "Jeff Gannon" who accused his colleagues of "working off the talking points provided by the Democrats" and then was found to have copied info directly from GOP documents and used it in his "news report"?

This would be the same "Jeff Gannon" who was subpoenaed in connection with the Plame investigation because he somehow obtained a copy of a purported State Dept. document which said that Ms. Plame had a hand in arranging the assignment to Niger for her husband (an allegation -- and document -- denied by the CIA).

Yes, we're talking about "Jeff Gannon, Washington Bureau Chief, Talon News" -- Talon News being the rinkydink wingnut "news service" chaired by the same guy who runs GOP USA (the wingnut site that is less upscale than Renew American, but slightly more professional than BushCountryUSA, and apparently run by various members of the Texas GOP).
Anyway, ever since it was revealed that "Jeff Gannon" is a pseudonym (even though he apparently gets daily White House passes issued in that name), bloggers have been trying to ascertain his real identity. Susan G. at Daily Kos (with the assistance of her readers) has been very energetic and organized in this endeavor, and has uncovered a great deal of interesting and suggestive info about "Jeff" and his associates.

So, just who is Jeff? Well, his Talon News bio has been delated, but it formerly indicated that he was a obtained a B.S. degree in Education from the Pennsylvania State University System, and attended a two-day right-wing school of journalism ("the Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism"). Oh, and he "lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC."
His posts at his site "ConservativeGuy.com" also seem to have disappeared, but Susan and her readers found an archived copy of his "Who is Conservative Guy?" bio -- and it seems to indicate that "Jeff" can't hold a job:

I've been a preppie, a yuppie, blue-collar, green-collar and white-collar. I've served in the military, graduated from college, taught in the public school system, was a union truck driver, a management consultant, a fitness instructor and an entrepreneur. I'm a two-holiday Christian and I usually vote Republican because they most often support conservative positions
His gun of choice is a Beretta 9mm, and he drives a Nissan Pathfinder.
Anyway, "Jeff" has noted the efforts to identify him, and seems delighted with the attention. He recently posted the following at JeffGanon.com:

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHTThe hard-core Lefties are conducting an exhaustive search for me in cyberspace, which has produced an entertaining mosaic of conspiracy theories. I appreciate all the attention, but I can do without the threats on my person, property and family.[...]
For those out there that still have questions about me and don't think I should be able to be a journalist, here's what you need to know: I'm everything people on the Left seem to despise. I'm a man who is white, politically conservative, a gun-owner, an SUV driver and I've voted for Republicans. I'm pro-American, pro-military, pro-democracy, pro-capitalism, pro-free speech, anti-tax and anti-big government. Most importantly, I'm a Christian. Not only by birth, but by rebirth through the blood of Jesus Christ. [But apparently only at Christmas and Easter, if you go by his ConservativeGuy post.]I've never been paid by a politician or given money to a politician. I've never worked on a campaign or worked for an elected official. I've never run for office or been appointed to any government position at any level. Few, if any of my colleagues can make the same claim.

And few, if any, of his colleagues in the White House press corps appear to have so few qualifications for the job.

Anyway, "Jeff" seems to be your basic loser who has tried a lot of dead-end jobs and get-rich quick schemes, and then finally, despite any previous experience in journalism (or even any experience or interest in politics or government) got some wingnut group with possible ties to the GOP to pay him a salary -- and now he's a White House Reporter. So, he's everything that Judson Cox hopes to be in 20 years (although Judson has worked on local campaigns, so is probably overqualified to be Jeff).

And yet, despite that lack of background, and the fact that Talon News isn't really a news organization, somehow the White House lets Jeff into the press conferences ever day, and regularly takes his questions.

Don't believe it? Well, here's part of a program note from Sean Hannity's radio show from last year:

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Sean spends a moment with Jeff Gannon, Washington Bureau Chief for Talon News.com. Jeff talks about his daily meetings with White House Press Secretary Scott McCellan.

And now Jeff has his own weekly radio program on "RightTalk," along with such notable wingnuts as Paul Weyrich and Grover Norquist.

Yeah, Im gettin my finger dyed purple too. It wuz a gewd speech ... I kint wait to git my social security refund check. 

German police are on the lookout in public parks for pranksters planting thousands of American flags and images of President Bush in piles of dog poop! Authorities are stumped and have added that laws do not punish those who engage in the behavior. Contact Fox News or U.S.A. Homeland Security officials for more details. Join the "Round Rooster Barn Circuit" and get all the latest news from Bush Country! Leave a comment for contact information. 

Not a true photographic image of the crime scene. 

The insane editor - in - chief after news of the King's coronation. The recluse lives in a barn deep in Bush Country, U.S.A. on a remote 10 acre farm in North Jefferson County, Kansas. The current mayor of the nearby village, Nortonville, has wanted to kill him after he published a series of "foul mouthed" articles exposing lies the mayor perpetrated. 

Run? I ain't sorry Bush won!