Valerie Plame -- Appeals Court: Testify, or go to prison. Jeff Gannon is Implicated.

[WaPost]

Judith Miller (NYTimes) and Matt Cooper (Time Magazine) may be compelled to testify in the Valerie Plame case, or they will go to prison, in a ruling by a 3 judge panel on a Federal Appeals court. NYTimes will seek a stay while appealing to the full court, and then likely to the Supreme Court.

No word on why Bob Novak isn't on this list. You'd think he would be, since he broke the story, and so clearly knows who the White House leak was. Also, no word why gay hooker and Republican shil Jeff Gannon , who was given a day-to-day press passes for months in the White House while he lobbed partisan softballs at Scott McClellan -- and even George Bush, during his pre-Iraq war press conference -- isn't on the list, now that it is known that he was one of only six reporters who the White House leak talked to. Gannon wasn't found out until some in the press corps started asking, "Who is this Shil?"

Many believe the White House Plame leak was Karl Rove -- a guy not known to hang out indiscriminitely with male prostitutes.

I mean, you've gotta wonder who it was in the White House who gave this shill daily press access -- meaning, every day for months they approved his access, and who the leak in the Plame case was who leaked to Gannon, Novak, Matthews and Miller. They're probably the same person. That means, the interesting question to ask Scott McClellan: "Who approved Jeff Gannon's daily press passes to the White House?" . That's probably the person who leaked the Plame memo to him.

Daily KOS did an extensive timeline analysis of questions and statements by Gannon, and concluded:


Jeff Gannon was planted by the administration to disseminate their talking points unfettered by any journalism ethics or investigation shortly after the Iraq war, when the failure to find WMDs was becoming apparent. He became incredibly useful in L'Affaire Plame to continue to push the dual stories that a) Plame's name was already common knowledge and therefore `outing' her was not a crime and b) to continue to help discredit the CIA and Wilson. Based on the evidence, I believe the 2002 CIA memo was leaked to Gannon when Novak became unusable and when the `mainstream' reporters with CIA contacts were not pushing the WH's preferred story line. They needed cover, and they got it. And as is evidenced by his remarkable access to Scott McClellan and President Bush in the White House press room, to this day, he was rewarded handsomely...

And it continues as business as usual... until today when he became expendable and `resigned' from Talon News.