Gannon tells Vanity Fair of secret 'security clearance'

Liberty Think | May 6 2005

The new issue of Vanity Fair is out, and there's a nine-page feature on Jeff Gannon. This was obviously written before the data about Gannon's Secret Service logs were relased.

The article on the whole is a whitewash that doesn't ask real questions on his White House access, and takes at face value Gannon's claim that he was raised James Guckert. But there were two short and enlightening passages in the lengthy whitewash, to wit:

Sometime near the beginning of 2001, Gannon gave notice at the auto-body shop. He told McFarland, among others, that he was taking a job with a subcontractor for the Department of Defense, something for which he would need security clearance.

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He volunteers that his story is more complex than described, involving secret work for which he needed security clearance, then refuses to elaborate. "My history isn?t exactly linear," he concedes.