Let's just save time:
I am *not* on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone list.
By Moe Lane Posted in The Parties — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
At the rate things are going, I thought that I'd avoid the rush.
So Sorry About the Names, Alleged Madam Says
Palfrey Hopes Release Will Flush Out Defense WitnessesBy Carol D. Leonnig and Sue Anne Pressley Montes
The alleged D.C. madam is in desperate need of defense witnesses.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey told reporters that she is "genuinely sorry" if people are hurt when identified as clients of her elite escort service -- but she has no choice but to call them to prove that her escorts provided only the fantasy of sex. Not the real thing, which would be illegal.
Another taste past the fold.
Anyway, ain't this the truth:
She also knows the town is edgily awaiting the next name to be dropped, in a verbal Dance of the Seven Veils. According to ABC's Web site, Palfrey's potential witness list includes "a Bush administration economist, the head of a conservative think tank, a prominent CEO, several lobbyists, and a handful of military officials."
But forget them for the moment, Palfrey suggested yesterday;
Ha!
...instead, she urged reporters to help expose why prosecutors are unfairly hounding her.
"Put aside the titillation of the who's-who list -- at least in part -- and instead investigate the disturbing genesis, the confounding evolution and the equally alarming continuation of this matter," she said. "I believe there is something very rotten at the core of my circumstance."
And she's well prepared to change her circumstances, as this judicious publication of six days' worth of 1996 cell phone call numbers might demonstrate. Two things to take from this: one, if she has her 1996 phone logs, she probably has her 2006 phone logs. Two, her records stretch back from before the current Administration, which means that all those legislative and executive branch officials on them then are still wandering around Dizzy City as lobbyists.
Ms. Palfrey, you probably don't need to be told this advice, but I'll give it anyway: make this a nice, bipartisan media frenzy. The Right-'sphere is top-heavy enough with libertarian types that we'll cheerfully keep reporting this as long as everybody's getting their fair share of the spotlights. Aside from everything else, it dovetails neatly with our activists' concerns over big-government corruption. You know, I know, everybody with a functioning brainstem knows that you've got the whole spectrum represented in your phone logs... so go nuts with it.
You might find some increased traffic to your legal defense fund that way.
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My understanding is that her basic stance is, if you accuse her of there being a crime (prostitution), then the "johns" are just as guilty of a crime as she is and they should be charged as well. But, the powers that be aren't pursuing them, only her.
Therefore, she is trying to do two things, one, humiliate the men she feels are getting off scott-free despite having also committed a crime, and two, force them to be her allies.
It is in the interest of both the john and the madame to claim no sex ever took place, so she knows that by releasing names, the named people will deny that any sex took place (only legal fantasies and massages).
Basically, she wants the following to happen:
1. she wants her customers to deny any sex and back up her claim that it was a legal business.
2. she wants her customers to go down with her since she feels they are just as involved as she is.
So far, she seems to be getting a little bit of both as the Deputity Secretary of State, Randall Tobias, the most prominent person caught up in the story thus far, resigned but is also denying that any sex occured, which backs up her claim of a legal business.
After all if only one person is involved its not a crime.
I also have to agree with Moe. To borrow from the original Batman movie that town needs an enema.
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So somehow this is the Bush administration going after her for . . .? The more I read the more she's trying to make this sound like retaliation for something. Did she wisper Valerie Plame's name into Armitages ear??
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