OK, of all places to mention Guckert's relationship to the Plame leak scandal,
The Conservative Voice has done so. It takes them a bit to get to it, but they do. Pay special attention to Congresswoman Louise Slaughter's remark at the end......
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Discredited reporter owes back taxes
Ex-Delawarean didn't pay $20,700 over three years
By ESTEBAN PARRA
The former Wilmington resident who gained notoriety asking softball questions at White House press conferences has an outstanding tax bill from the state of Delaware.
James D. Guckert, who reported under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon, failed to pay Delaware more than $20,700 in personal state income tax from 1991 through 1994, according to documents filed in Superior Court in Wilmington.
State Division of Revenue Director Patrick Carter said the assessment has not yet been satisfied.
"When it rains, it pours," Guckert said Friday from his Washington home. He would not comment further.
According to court records, Guckert owed $9,484 in taxes; $7,697.69 in fines and $3,560.71 in interest.
The judgment, which was filed Oct. 18, 1996, said interest would continue to accrue at a rate of 1 percent a month on the unpaid balance, and the penalty would accrue at 0.5 percent on the tax.
Carter said he is prohibited by law from telling how much Guckert has paid of the judgment, if any.
Although the matter carries no potential prison time, if Guckert were to win the state lottery or sell any property in the state, Delaware would collect whatever debt he owed.
Guckert resigned Tuesday from Talon News, a conservative Internet news outlet owned by the Web site GOPUSA, following criticism from Democrats and news media watchdogs on the Web that he acted more like an administration ally at news conferences than an objective journalist.
Online writers called "bloggers" published his real name and the Wilmington address where his Internet domain was registered around the time that he resigned. They also discovered that several gay pornographic domain names had been registered through his domain.
Guckert said he registered those domain names for a client while he was working to set up a Web-hosting business in Wilmington.
Guckert applied for a congressional press pass in April but was rejected on grounds that he did not work for a bona fide news organization.
Now, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., and Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., are calling on Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the leaking of a classified CIA memo containing the identity of undercover agent Valerie Plame to Guckert, according to Slaughter's Web site.
Federal authorities are still investigating the identity of the person who leaked Plame's identity to syndicated columnist Robert Novak last year. Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, has claimed the leak may have been intended to discredit his assertions that the Bush administration exaggerated Iraq's nuclear capabilities to bolster its argument for going to war in 2003.
"We now know that 'Jeff Gannon' had access to classified CIA documents that contained the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame," Slaughter said. "This is more than an issue of media manipulation by the White House ... this is now an issue of national security."