The wildest DC "gay prostitution story yet

I admit it. Any mainstream media journalist would decry the post I am about to write.

Why, then, would publish such a thing? Because a blog is not the New York Times; on the internet, we may discuss areas that cry out for further research, as opposed to recording research already completed. Speculation can prove useful, as long as it comes clearly labeled as such -- and as long as the user does not overdose.

The semi-mysterious TBRNews website has had a go at Gannongate which includes this noteworthy offering from a putative White House source-with-no-name:

Seems a former White House aide, (Reagan White House) was caught running a male prostitution service and got fired from the Monkey Palace, and later from the RNC for supplying muscular boy toys to some top Beltway gays. Well, after being fired, our bozo got together with a Muslim druggie and set up operations at the Kennedy-Warren, a landmark DC apartment/business complex. They ran a male escort service supplying young studs to older Beltway citizens. Among these citizens were: Federal judges, top political figures, mostly Republican, very senior military people and certainly members of Congress. The head of this service, that utilized credit cards for payment, supplied young men, mostly young servicemen, between 18 to 25 for sex. They kept very complete records, including names and address of the johns as well as credit card receipts. And later there was blackmail and now, I have learned from the inside, this joker has sold the lists to: Iranians( through his partner’s Arab connections) and a gay group in DC. Sold the lists twice and got twice the money. I have seen a partial list and it reads like the DC social register, believe me!

The TRBNews site implies, but does not state, that all of this somehow links up with the Gannon story.

I don't know who wrote these allegations, and I certainly cannot vouch for their veracity -- but I do know the name of the "former White House aide": Todd Blodgett.

Blodgett's name came up in the June 29, 1989 Washington Times story on the Reagan era gay prostitution ring servicing the powerful in DC:

One of the people involved was a White House press aide who briefed President Reagan daily on press matters.

When his name was found on credit card vouchers for what turned out to be service fees for male prostitutes, Todd Blodgett, 28, admitted his name had been used and that parties with naked male prostitutes had taken place in his apartment but, like Harry Dexter White, flatly denied that he had any guilty knowledge and had "no idea at all" how his name and signature had gotten onto the vouchers.

Readers should understand that I have no hard evidence disproving this denial.

A side-note: The Washington Post of July 24, 1990, identified the leader of the ring as one Henry W. Vinson, a mortician (!!) in West Virginia. When the DC call-boy operation became public, Vinson apparently attempted to fake his own death; his attorney was none other than Greta Van Susteren -- later of Fox News. The ring also involved Washington lobbyist Craig Spence, who was found "suicided" in a Boston hotel room after he announced plans to tell the media that the intelligence community used his "boys" for purposes of blackmail.

Interestingly, Todd Blodgett has -- like Bruce and (perhaps) Bobby Eberle -- devoted some effort to the business of "taking names" -- that is, compiling mailing lists. He now runs something called the TAB agency, a PR firm in DC. At the same time, he has functioned as a connecting point between the Republican right and the far, far, far right.

As in: Fascist.

This page, for example, details Blodgett's interactions with Willis Carto and the Liberty Lobby. Carto, longtime publisher of the anti-Semitic Spotlight, has been the leading promoter of Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, the "bible" of post-war fascist theory; William Turner's classic Power on the Right describes a Carto lecture delivered in a hall bedecked with swastikas.

(The page I have cited may seem a tad confusing at first, since it stems from an acrimonious dispute between Carto and some of his former associates. Internecine fights often allow outsiders a peek behind the curtain.)

Blodgett is described as an "advertising wizard" who was a "trusted part of the Liberty Lobby team;" as a result of the split within that organization, he acquired the Liberty Lobby's mailing list. This emphasis on mailing lists is, as noted, redolent of the Eberles.

One would not think the connections could veer further right-ward. One would be wrong. In 1993, aparently at Carto's behest, Blodgett took control of Resistance Records, a flagrantly neo-Nazi music label. (A typical couplet from a song penned by the company's founder: "Kill all the niggers and gas all the Jews/Kill a gypsy and a coloured too.") The company was slated to collapse due to its failure to pay state sales tax -- and then Todd Blodgett came to the rescue.

By March, 1999, Blodgett had sold Resistance to William Pierce, leader of the openly Nazi National Alliance, for US$250,000.

Blodgett met with Pierce and two Nazi Skinheads at the very exclusive University Club, in Washington, to finalise the arrangements.

Pierce was jubilant. "As Resistance Records regains strength, that acquisition should add an increasing number of younger members in the 18 to 25 age range to our ranks", he wrote.

Blodgett was to continue as the operations manager of Resistance Records, which was now relocated to Washington. But in October 1999, Pierce, aggravated by delays in Blodgett's management, moved Resistance to National Alliance headquarters in West Virginia.

The fact that Blodgett was to manage the company strongly indicates that his ties to the neo-Nazi movement are ideological, not merely financial.

How did such an individual become a briefer to Ronald Reagan, a GOP strategist and a mover within "Poppy" Bush's election campaign? Perhaps we can find a hint of an answer in the published report of gay prostitution in Todd Blodgett's DC apartment and his known penchant for collecting names and addresses.

All of the above should be taken as prelude to the following allegations, published on this site and elsewhere. Once again, the unverified claims come from a self-proclaimed White House insider, who may well be the same fellow quoted above. I do not know if this fellow is a "Deep Throat" or a Janet Cooke; read his words and judge for yourself:

In my second-to-last communication I talked about a male ”escort service” [read gay brothel] operating in DC for the edification of the very senior Beltway people. I have, locked up in my office safe, copies of the credit card receipts with names, card numbers and signatures of: two Supreme Court and one Appellate Court judges {Have you heard about the two judges who tried each other?} eight Senators, five Congressmen, two former and one current White House aides, [the latter a very senior policy-maker] a number of very prominent DC lawyers, several senior members of the RNC, four general officers and one Admiral, three of whom are still on active duty [one in the Pentagon], five local newspapermen, eight ministers, high level employees of: State Department, Commerce Department, Justice Department, HEW Department, DC police department, NSA, DIA, and most especially, a number of pundits from Georgetown University and a nice collection of CIA people. The proprietor of this stud farm was one Todd Blodgett and there was a front-page story on one of his male whore establishments in the Washington Times. Blodgett was a Reagan White House aide, was fired from both the WH and later, the RNC, for aggressive homosexual behavior and then tossed out of the University Club in DC.

Information that has been kept very quiet at the highest levels would indicate that George W. Bush was heavily involved with gay groups while at Yale, had a significant affair with another man while at HBS, was a “very close friend” of a black drag queen and, according to three different inside sources, is no more a Pentecostal Christian than Saddam Hussein.

The sex material about our pure, God-intoxicated President, comes from one arrest report and several “counseling” reports now sequestered (by order of Karl Rove) at Yale (Bush’s records there have been sealed) There is the temptation to run with this but there at least has to be something factual here. The Republicans are trying to plant obvious lies on everyone in the hopes that others like the nutty Rather will take them up and make Bush look like a wonderful but persecuted man.

Of course, the material presented here may well itself have the covert purpose of fulfilling that very agenda. Even I tend to balk at the following:

According to one report, made long before Bush was Governor of Texas, he could not have any kind of sex with women unless at least half drunk and was a practicing advocate of physical abuse. He likes to beat people, according to this. But not be beaten in return. Some of this is not only difficult to believe but downright repulsive.

Although Bush doesn't strike me as a Top, some Dominants do seem surprisingly meek in the course of their "normal" lives.

On the other hand, the following data certainly carries a believable ring:

You can see small traces of these accusations if you talk with Bush for any length of time. He has succumbed entirely to the outrageous flattery his staff smears him with and he now really believes that he is always right and that anyone who dares to contradict him is guilty of treason! Or sedition! I have actually heard him say that and, of course, his nodding and sucking staff goes right along with him.

Have all these men been players in a hidden game that has continued for 17+ years?

Todd Blodgett was "an advisor to George Bush's election committee" (the reference here is to the elder Bush). At the same time (according to Kevin Phillips) Bush the younger coordinated the campaign's outreach to the Fundamentalist community, an effor in which Bruce Eberle also (reportedly) participated. (Bruce, keeper of the right-wing mailing lists, has also been linked to something called Grace ministries.) Bruce Eberle has denied a newspaper's report that Bobby is his brother, but has elsewhere refered to Bobby as a member of his "clan."

A fair amount of smoke, and we may yet find the fire. But I must remind readers that, so far, no hard evidence links Guckert with the astonishing stories surrounding Todd Blodgett.

Incidentally, I want to repeat one observation from our supposed "insider":

The Republicans are trying to plant obvious lies on everyone in the hopes that others like the nutty Rather will take them up and make Bush look like a wonderful but persecuted man.

In recent days, untraceable commentators to Kos and similar sites have circulated stories about Scott McClellan and Karl Rove. (I referenced, but did not necessarily endorse, the McClellan accusation in an earlier post.) For example, a Kos reader named "Thom" claimed that he had sex with Rove in 1970.

There were clever disinformation campaigns nipping at the edges of the "bulge" story and the vote fraud scandal. Don't be surprised if "Brad Menfil" (remember him?) offers his take on Gannon and related matters...