Rumored Gannon has been given immunity from Treason charges in exchange
for information..


http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Salon_...nder_1008.html



Jeff Gannon, the prostitute-cum-Talon News "reporter" who lobbed
softball questions
at President Bush last year before he was uncovered by bloggers, could
be charged in
connection with the CIA outing case. Conason writes:
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Another intriguing possibility in the leaks case brings back the
baroque personality of right-wing
pressroom denizen Jeff Gannon, born James Guckert.

The New York Times reported Friday that in addition to possible charges
directly

involving the revelation of Valerie Wilson's identity and related
perjury or conspiracy charges,

Fitzgerald is exploring other possible crimes. Specifically, according
to the Times, the special

counsel is seeking to determine whether anyone transmitted classified
material or information to

persons who were not cleared to receive it -- which could be a felony
under the 1917 Espionage Act.


One such classified item might be the still-classified State Department
document,

written by an official of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
concerning

the CIA's decision to send former ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into
allegations

that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from Niger. Someone leaked that
INR document

-- which inaccurately indicated that Wilson's assignment was the
result of lobbying

within CIA by his wife, Valerie -- to right-wing media outlets, notably
including Gannon's

former employers at Talon News.

On Oct. 28, 2003, Gannon posted an interview with

Joseph Wilson on the Talon Web site, in which he posed the following
question

: "An internal government memo prepared by U.S. intelligence personnel
details a meeting

in early 2002 where your wife, a member of the agency for clandestine
service working on
Iraqi weapons issues,
suggested that you could be sent to investigate the reports. Do you
dispute that?"