Plame leaked by fake news source? Part III

continuing the saga, i feel that i have found a picture of dave rayboen aka jeff gannon. this was posted on a site at geocities/capitol hill/lobby of his friend jack lofland http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5607/. the photo is from a mission from around 1997 to russia with the josh mcdowell ministries (dallas, tx). This is an image from previously cited site Dave is on the left picture taken around 1997

•  Make sure to mirror

  Make sure to mirror these images...

  by The Cunctator on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 08:37:46 PM PDT

  •  explain mirroring

    suggestions on where to do this?

    by cosette on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 08:40:24 PM PDT

  •  But

    But it's hosted on imageshack currently, so I think it's ok. If it is removed I already saved a local copy, in case.

    by benhiller on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 08:46:42 PM PDT

    •  just checked geocities

      The three images of "dave rayboen" which were once posted are no longer available. (I just checked)

      I'm trying to catch up - what's the source with respect to dave rayboen being an alias for Jeff Gannon?  Granted ~ they do look very much alike.

      peace

      by peace voter on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 11:10:01 PM PDT

      •  Wow, what a coincidence

        stuff on the web vanishing just as we are looking for it.  Who would want to hide this stuff?  I wonder if this may have been what the infamous Larisa was talking about when she urged that this investigation go 'under the radar'.  

        Her concerns that this may be a 'honey pot' to hurt the credibility of this blog (as if the credibility of some 40,000 internet users could be decreased by getting some details wrong!), seem overwrought, and based on an unfounded overestimation of the 'credibility' of a huge collective.

        OTOH the concerns about important evidence being scrubbed, and misleading new info posted to support the 'legend' of Jeff G. seem very well founded indeed. The fact that some of his stuff is being changed now is, to paranoid types like myself, pretty good evidence that there is actually someone who cares about hiding this stuff, and they have sufficient bandwidth to monitor dkos. That's pretty scary in an 'at least it confirms my paranoia' kind of way.

        by Cache on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 02:21:31 AM PDT

        •  If you think that's scary

          Imagine how much worse it would be if this stuff started disappearing after only a couple of people discussed it in private.  At least when it disappears after being discussed here in the open, several people have records of it.

          Of course someone cares about keeping this stuff under wraps -- they wouldn't be hiding it in the first place if they weren't.  It is obvious by now that there's a front-row fake reporter using a pseudonym in the White House.  The people who set that up obviously have something to hide or they wouldn't be hiding it.  The question is who, and how deep does it go?

          My burning question is, is Jeff Gannon an amateur hack with rich ideological bedfellows, or is he on the government payroll and a covert operative?

          Just because there's someone out to get you doesn't make you paranoid.

          by Gareth on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 09:02:42 AM PDT

  •  Plame III -- picture of Gannon Alias

    Marking this diary as CategoryPlame will help organization by use of the dKos search tool.

    After I mark the main diaries, I think I'll try to set up a few assignment categories on the dKosopedia page and make the current assignment threads.

    by anonymous coward 8 on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 10:47:34 AM PDT

•  This is what he looks like now

  

  by The Cunctator on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 08:39:59 PM PDT

  •  From Russia visit ...

    My good buddy Dave Rayboen with

    

    Helen and Jack Lofland at the warehouse.

    In 2005 - Be Liberal Support our Allies of Democracy on Human Rights, Environment, Gay Rights and Minorities & EU and UN Development Programs Third World & Our Friends

    by creve coeur on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 05:19:10 AM PDT

•  Additional Photo of Jeff Gannon = Dave Rayboen

  That I locally cached from Jack Lofland Geocity website This is Dave on the left and Jack on right in the Moscow hotel on mission to Russia sponsored by Josh McDowell Ministries http://www.josh.org/ Dallas, Tx around 1997

  by cosette on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 09:19:07 PM PDT

  •  Totally gay!

    by Manix on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 09:42:14 PM PDT

    •  Not that that is bad

      I support the right even of right-wing fake reporters to engage in wild, santorum-splashing homoerotic shenanigans.  Nor would I be judgemental  about the big bag of rock (= crack cocaine) on his bed. I am disturbed that this cocksucker is probably getting taxpayer dollars to hole up in a motel with his obviously drug-addled top, and then representing the good 'ol US of A to poor impressionable Russians.  The fact that they are grinningly representing their genital dimensions with their fingers to the (presumably male) prostitute/minister who took the photo says everything about the quality of the rock they've been hitting.

      by Cache on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 02:34:19 AM PDT

      •  heh...heh....heh...

        you said cocksucker.

        by Manix on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 03:03:27 PM PDT

    •  I hate to admit it

      But that was my first reaction to the picture of "Jeff" on his "conservative guy" website.  Maybe David Brock can talk some sense into him.

      by Tomato Observer on Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 07:25:56 PM PDT

•  other than the bald head

  Dave doesn't look like Jeff to me. Dave's chin juts out more, and the mouth and eye/eyebrows look different.

  by chantedor on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 09:36:34 PM PDT

•  Gay.

  by Manix on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 09:42:56 PM PDT

•  Rayboen pics

  Dave worked for an insurance/loan company called ASI.  He is in smallish halloween party pictures here and here and, from a restaurant review in 1999, he is age 29.

  What is the best proof that this is our guy, besides a resemblance?

  by CalbraithRodgers on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 09:50:39 PM PDT

  •  I'm sure it's a liitle off

    subject, BUT, are those magnum sized condoms those idiots, in the first picture at your link, are wearing as hats???

    If so, I'm really bewildered as to what state of mind possessed them.

    by DianeL on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 07:11:24 PM PDT

•  IMHO

  Dave looks a little too hirsute to be Jeff.

  by wanderindiana on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 09:59:26 PM PDT

•  While googling

  I noticed that when I entered his name, Dave or David Rayboen, there would be a reference to a Joyce Rayboen/Norris/Steinberg. Which led to references to an Agape association(we all know about Agape Press). Several phone numbers associated with the refs (410-420-8595)leads to a William/Bill Groseclose of 1933 Castle Rd, Forest Hill, MD 21050. All of the names associated with Rayboen are involved in some evangelical ultra conservative religious order.
  It seems to me if this is the guy, Karl Rove's outreach to evangelicals went way further and proved much more successful than he thought.

  by texas hostage on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 10:15:13 PM PDT

  •  I plead ignorance

    I don't know about Agape Press.

    peace
    

    by peace voter on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 02:33:35 AM PDT

•  eberle, delay and ashcroft

  Bruce Eberle runs Eberle Communications Group, Inc., which is involved in tom delay's fundraising scandal.

  ECG, Inc. also owns Fund Raising Strategies, Inc. and seems to prefer the name Eberle & Associates.  part of the business is PR, part is fund raising.

  1420 Spring Hill Road, Suite 490
  McLean, Virginia 22102
  Voice [phone]    Fax [phone]
  e-mail: [e-mail]

  Eberle also owns Omega List Company and Eberle and Omega were busted for
  illegally giving data lists to Ashcroft when he was a senator.  while you're at the omega site, be sure to check out Blanquita Cullum's prattling.  this "email endorsement" stuff sounds kinda fishy and propagandistic to me.

  i'm thinking a client list of ol' brucie's could be interesting.

  by Cedwyn on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 10:16:31 PM PDT

  •  AKA The Eberle Group?

    Of 1906 Buckthorn Lane in Reston, VA 20191-5202? [phone]?

    Maybe, maybe not. But that's the way they're cited in this Google cached issue of the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute newsletter.

    The CBL Institute, by the way, is part of the circle of organizations funded by the Scaife family foundations and its sister ultra-right foundations, including Olin, Earhart, etc.

    by Kagro X on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 08:26:16 AM PDT

•  Someone needs to kick

  this subject over to uggabugga. They are brilliant with flow charts and connect the dots subjects like this.

  by Manix on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 10:32:53 PM PDT

•  Contributions continuation from part II

  Warning - long post follows

  I pulled a search on contributions from the ZIP code where Bedrock Corp is located (19807)

  The 3002 donors can be found here

  Contribution totals (where it equals "0" then there was a negative and positive contribution cancelling each other out) are listed below with the largest 5 contributions bolded:

  Altria Group $1,000
  America Coming Together $1,004
  American Conservative Union $2,000
  American Hospital Assn $1,000
  American Institute of Architects $750
  American International Group $1,000
  American Interventional Pain Physicians $1,000
  American Medical Assn $950
  American Society of Anesthesiologists $250
  American Society of Assn Executives $350
  America's Foundation $1,000 (not sure if this is the Conservative Young America's Foundation but Louis Freeh (former FBI director) was the donor
  America's PAC (supported by RLC) $500
  Arizona Republican Party $4,580
  Arkansas Leadership Cmte 2003 FCRC (Republican Party of Arkansas) $892
  Assn of Trial Lawyers of America ($42)
  Baucus, Max $250
  Bayh, Evan $4,000
  Benjamin, Michael $250
  Biden, Joseph R Jr (DE rep not surprising) $121,015
  Bowles, Erskine B $4,000
  Boxer, Barbara $10,200
  Breaux, John $0
  Brown, Melissa $500
  Bush, George W  $272,163
  Cain, Herman (2004 Georgia Senate Candidate) $4,000
  Carnahan, Russ $2,000
  Carper, Tom (DE rep not surprising) $46,805
  Case, Ed $500
  Castle, Michael N (DE rep not surprising) $143,107
  Castor, Betty $500
  Chambliss, Saxby $1,000
  Clark, Wesley $500
  Club for Growth $8,250
  Coburn, Tom $2,000
  Comcast Corp $4,200
  Congressional Agenda: Millennium $500
  Conservative Victory Fund $1,000
  Coors, Peter $1,000
  Crowley, Joseph $500
  Daschle, Tom $3,750
  Dean, Howard $1,500
  DeMint, James W $4,000
  Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte $400
  Democratic Party of Delaware $32,200
  Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte $950
  Dingell, John D $1,000
  DNC Services Corp $20,300
  Dodd, Chris $500
  Eagle Forum (Pro-Family Org.) $500
  Edwards, John $13,500
  EMILY's List $1,000
  Etheridge, Bob $2,000
  Farmer, Nancy $500
  Feingold, Russell D $200
  First State PAC (Tom Carper's PAC) $25,000
  Flake, Jeff $2,000
  Garrett, Scott $500
  Gephardt, Richard A $2,250
  Gerlach, Jim $500
  Greenwood, James C $0
  Hercules Inc $2,500
  Holiday Inns $878
  Human Rights Campaign $250
  Independent Action $200
  Independent Insurance Agents of America $250
  ING Americas $250
  Isett, Carl $2,000
  Jeffords, James M $400
  Jindal, Bobby $2,250
  Kerry, John $30,306
  Klayman, Larry E $300
  Kolbe, Jim $1,000
  Kuhl, John R Jr $1,000
  Leadership Circle PAC (donated money to Mel Martinez's campaign) $5,000
  Lee, Barbara $250
  Levin, Sander $250
  Lieberman, Joe $9,000
  LoBiondo, Frank A $500
  Lowey, Nita M $4,000
  Manger, William $2,500
  Manzullo, Don $1,000
  Martinez, Mel $1,000
  MBNA Corp $15,685
  McCarthy, Carolyn $200
  McCrery, Jim $600
  McMorris, Cathy $2,000
  Meehan, Marty $1,000
  Mikulski, Barbara A $1,000
  Missouri Republican State Cmte $1,637
  Moore, Roscoe M Jr $2,000
  Moveon.org $225
  Murray, Patty $1,000
  National Assn of Spine Specialists $250
  National Cable & Telecommunications Assn $500
  National Conservative Campaign Fund $2,000
  National Federation of Republican Women $2,750
  National Multi Housing Council $225
  National Republican Congressional Cmte $18,300
  National Republican Senatorial Cmte $20,886
  National Rifle Assn $1,500
  National Thoroughbred Racing Assn $5,000
  Natl Assn Insurance & Financial Advisors $1,050
  Natural Law Party of the US $250
  New Hampshire Republican State Cmte $595
  New Jersey Democratic State Cmte $4,000
  New Republican Majority Fund (Leadership PAC affiliated with Sen. Trent Lott) $3,610
  Norton, Eleanor Holmes $1,000
  Obama, Barack $2,500
  Oxley, Michael G (Fourth Ohio District Congressman (R)) $42,000 - this is one of the highest recipients!
  Pakistani American Physicians PAC $200
  Pallone, Frank Jr $250
  Parke, Gregory $1,000
  Paterno, Scott $2,000
  Patterson, Jeanne L $500
  PEPCO Holdings $3,296
  Physicians for Women's Health $250
  PNC Bank/Delaware $300
  PriceWaterhouseCoopers $300
  Reid, Harry $2,000
  Republican Central Cmte of Nevada $745
  Republican Central Cmte of South Dakota $800
  Republican Federal Cmte of Pennsylvania $3,375
  Republican National Cmte $112,097
  Republican Party of Florida $16,338
  Republican Party of Iowa $2,084
  Republican Party of Maine $595
  Republican Party of Minnesota $1,265
  Republican Party of Ohio $3,213
  Republican Party of Oregon $1,042
  Republican Party of Washington $1,634
  Republican Party of Wisconsin $1,487
  Republican Pro-Choice Coalition $250
  Republican State Cmte of Delaware $337,371
  Republican State Cmte of Michigan $2,732
  Republicans for Choice $2,775
  Rogers, Dave $2,001
  Ruppersberger, Dutch $3,000
  Santorum, Rick $4,000
  Sarbanes, Paul S $500
  Schumer, Charles E $250
  Schwartz, Allyson $1,000
  Scott, Marvin B $500
  Sessions, Pete $1,000
  Shelby, Richard C $18,000
  Smith, Brad $2,000
  Specialty Equipment Market Assn $500
  Specter, Arlen $14,750
  Stop Union Political Abuse $4,000
  Stupak, Bart $250
  Swallow, John $1,500
  Thompson, Stan $250
  Thune, John $12,500
  To Organize a Majority PAC (Tom Harkin's Leadership PAC) $1,250
  Toomey, Pat $9,800
  Torsella, Joseph M $6,000
  United Seniors Assn $300
  Volunteer PAC $675
  Weldon, Dave $500
  Whitfield, Ed $500
  Wilmington Trust $250
  Wish List $300
  Wolf, Block et al $640
  Women's Campaign Fund $1,700
  WSFS Financial $5,000

  Names that I found interesting for contribution include FRANK ACIERNO with $47,000; DAVID MARVIN with $50,000, HENRY SILLIMAN with $61,701, and GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE with $41,084

  It's late, and I need to get some sleep - hope this helps
  

  by Thor Heyerdahl on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 03:53:09 AM PDT

•  New Diary, Overview: Part IV is up

  Thanks for posting this overnight, cosette. The other diaries were getting really bogged down. I backtracked/linked to this one in the new one.

  by SusanG on Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 06:48:54 AM PDT