The many and often insightful articles and comments on James Guckert/Jeff Gannon are still missing the most legitimate and non-salacious news story packed in this mess. Guckert committed or evidenced a desire to commit a Federal crime with national security implications.
Review what what is known so far---
1, Guckert/Gannon used a psuedonym to regularly enter the White House and participate in press conferences.
2. Guckert owns web domains (e.g. militaryescortsm4m.com) that were evidence of at least a desire to either:
a. engage in prostitution himself while purporting to be in the U.S. military, or
b. arrange or facilitate prostitution by other men who were either actually in the military or
purported to be in the military.
These facts make out a case that Guckert committed or took steps to commit at least one Federal crime: False Personation of an officer or employee of the United States.
18 USC 912 defines the elements of the crime:
"Whoever falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, and acts as such, or in such pretended character demands or obtains any money, paper, document, or thing of value, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
(Text of 18 USC 912 at http://trac.syr.edu/laws/18USC0912.html)
Selling sex under the false pretense that one is a hotmilitarystud is obtaining money falsely while pretending to be an "officer or employee" of the United States.
If Guckert merely impersonated (or planned to impersonate) a soldier while engaging in prostitution, the story is bad enough. If he ran, or intended to run an escort service that recruited real soldiers to moonlight as male prostitutes the story is even worse.
Given Guckert's business plan, do you suppose he tried to hire any of the soldiers pulling guard duty at the White House? (Soldiers detailed to the White House come from the Old Guard and are selected in large part based on height and appearance).
Who cleared Guckert to get into the White House? Was the background check insufficiently thorough to turn up militaryescortsm4m.com? Or did someone know about the issue and authorize access anyway?