As we continue to look into why James Guckert was able to have daily meetings with the White House Press Secretary while lacking credentials, let us not forget that he was also subpoenaed for leaking the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Let us also not forget that at one time the White House was so concerned with 'security' that they insisted on knowing the race of a reporter who was to photograph the Vice President. Guckert, they don't even care if he uses his real name, if he leaks confidential information, if he has nothing near the credentials otherwise required for working in the White House, etc. Perhaps it is because he was thought of as a 'company man.'
Mr. Guckert, if you are reading this, now is a good time to write a post about what it feels like when you sell yourself and then learn your buyer doesn't need you any more. It sure looks like there was a time when you were privy to all sorts of favors from the White House. How are they treating you now? Are they rushing to your defence? You should write such a post, Mr. Guckert, to let people know how the current administration treats people that it no longer considers an asset, lest they too sell themselves and get the surprise you got.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."