James Dale Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, never served in the United States Marine Corps as he claimed, according to the Personnel Management Support Branch located at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

The story was reported here on the Daily Kos blog and credited to ePluribus Media.

His nose continues to grow.

Over at the Pirate News out of Knoxville, Tennessee, run by John Lee, there's more on the story than has been reported on any other blog. The stories are linked under a category called George Bush's Gay Gate.

I'm still going through it all trying to independently verify some of the most important stuff, including the claim that Gannon is part of a "powerful ring of homosexuals . . . now . . . controlling the Bush White House."

There's also the claim that Hunter S. Thompson was in the middle of investigating the Gannon affair when he allegedly killed himself. Who knew?

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