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D.C. Madam Phone Records Released

Just when D.C.'s johns got comfortable again.

Today, a federal judge denied the government's attempts to keep Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the D.C. madam, from disseminating her business' phone records. Now she's free to do what she will with them. The government sought a restraining order on Palfrey back in March, too late to stop her from giving most of her records (Palfrey says it was about 80% of years 2002 to 2006) to ABC News, which busily matched thousands of numbers to names. Those records led to Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias' resignation. Brian Ross, during ABC's 20/20 report on Palfrey's service, said that there were plenty of high-profile D.C. types on the lists -- numbers of "Georgetown mansions and prominent CEOs, officials at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and lobbyists both Republican and Democratic" -- but that there were no members of Congress or White House officials that they could find. Maybe in that remaining 20%?


Comments (45)

blogenfreude wrote on July 5, 2007 6:32 PM:

Oh to be a divorce lawyer in D.C. ...

Anonymous wrote on July 5, 2007 6:37 PM:

Rumors abound that Cheney is on the list.

If so, Iran better get ready...

mycotropic wrote on July 5, 2007 6:37 PM:

I guess loading down the federal justice department with stupid people who're loyal will eventually catch up with you won't it!

Buy Nancy a Table wrote on July 5, 2007 6:37 PM:

Rumors abound that Cheney is on the list.

If so, Iran better get ready...

Anonymous wrote on July 5, 2007 6:40 PM:

oh please please please let Gonzo and Rove be on that list...
or a milk carton

Schnormal wrote on July 5, 2007 7:10 PM:

My code word is wood, baaahahahahaha!

howard wrote on July 5, 2007 7:27 PM:

the question is, for whom did the lobbyists hire call girls?

themselves? or members of congress and white house employees?

Anachro1 wrote on July 5, 2007 7:49 PM:

Come on, Deborah Jeane, honey:

WE are counting on you to come forward with those names!

anon wrote on July 5, 2007 8:16 PM:

Didn't Justin Rood work on that story for ABC? Didn't Ms. Palfrey claim that someone sat on ABC/Disney and stopped them from naming a bunch of names? Surely, the Muckrakers know if this is just more smoke or real fire. It's also unclear to me if Ms. Palfrey has the records in hand, so to speak, or if the government has had a look a them. (Though presumably, interested government parties could get the records from the phone company.)

anon_anon_do_do_di_ditdo wrote on July 5, 2007 8:30 PM:

or Ms. Palfrey got a big fat check for her defense fund, along with a revised copy of the phone records....

daCascadian wrote on July 5, 2007 8:38 PM:

anon >"...(Though presumably, interested government parties could get the records from the phone company.)"

So just who do you think has been on those NSA "watch lists" ? You didn`t think the majority of the watched were actually "non-citizens" did you ?

Apply "the lever" (blackmail/extortion) to the location most likely to "move the mountain" (The Powers That Be)

This is and always has been about politics in the truest, deepest sense

Code = woman (as in who has the records)

"The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." - Jim Hightower

Samsara wrote on July 5, 2007 8:45 PM:

Rumors abound that Cheney is on the list.


First, Cheney is not on the list.
Second, if Cheney were on the list, there wouldn't be any list.

Anachro1 wrote on July 5, 2007 8:53 PM:

If Cheney were on the list, there wouldn't be any Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

PeeJ wrote on July 5, 2007 10:16 PM:

Nothing to see here. Move along. We now have Al Gore's son to focus upon. It's ok if you are a Repuglican. F@@K America! Repuglican's Rule! American Drools! FU!

Peace!

PeeJ wrote on July 5, 2007 10:17 PM:

Nothing to see here. Move along. We now have Al Gore's son to focus upon. It's ok if you are a Repuglican. F@@K America! Repuglican's Rule! American Drools! FU!

Peace!

Florida Democrat wrote on July 5, 2007 10:21 PM:

Does anyone really think that Cheney would use a phone that could be traced back to him?

KestrelBrighteyes wrote on July 5, 2007 11:17 PM:

Hey, you didn't think Jeff Gannon was the ONLY one "serving" in the White House now did you?

Hey, y'all keep your fingers crossed - remember, blowjob = impeachment!!

KestrelBrighteyes wrote on July 5, 2007 11:18 PM:

Hey, you didn't think Jeff Gannon was the ONLY one "serving" in the White House now did you?

Hey, y'all keep your fingers crossed - remember, blowjob = impeachment!!

victoria2dc wrote on July 6, 2007 12:19 AM:

Cheney is NOT on that list. Do you think Cheney is a sexual being? Do you think there is a woman in this world who would open her eyes to look at him without his clothes? Are you joking? Even his wife write lesbian novels. Does that give you any clue about their relationship? No way a woman in her right mind, even one desperate for money, would take pay to play for Dick. Ha!

victoria2dc wrote on July 6, 2007 12:19 AM:

Cheney is NOT on that list. Do you think Cheney is a sexual being? Do you think there is a woman in this world who would open her eyes to look at him without his clothes? Are you joking? Even his wife write lesbian novels. Does that give you any clue about their relationship? No way a woman in her right mind, even one desperate for money, would take pay to play for Dick. Ha!

Jöhn Fünd wrote on July 6, 2007 12:26 AM:

If a Cheney is on the list, it's sure to be Lynne...

Garth wrote on July 6, 2007 12:31 AM:

i bet cheney is on the list.

now if we could only send him some muffin to provoke his heart....

Wayne Marsden was all over it and he was not sued, whacked or threatened... yet.

lesbian lynne and their lesbian daughter what's a Dickkk to do?

apparently, Palfrey's outfit also supplied the sex workers to Dusty Foggo's poker parties and Dukkke Cunningham.

an wrote on July 6, 2007 12:46 AM:

Do you plan to follow up on this?

http://www.deborahjeanepalfrey.com/Jeane9a.html

whizkid wrote on July 6, 2007 1:03 AM:

Pj
The focus should be on Al Gore's son.

You are a pandering idiot on behalf of the Right.

Bet this woman has some real tory perverts on her list. The people who have screwed America and sent our boys to Iraq so they could fleece our Treasury.

There is where we focus.

Rush will be on at noon.

Nancy needs a new table wrote on July 6, 2007 3:37 AM:

It's Cheney from the mid- and late 90s, when he ran Haliburton, before he had the keys to the castle.

Will the wingnuts relent when the details are revealed of Darth, his nipple rings, fur-lined jock-strap, and penchant for having young girls (or boys?) whip him while forcing him to read from "Das Kapital"?

ewastud wrote on July 6, 2007 5:15 AM:

Cheney is clealry a VERY strange character and it is hard to be sure just what is going on in that a-hole's head. I have an amusing anecdote to share about him from a second-hand source.

I recently took a workshop in screenprinting from an instructor who grew up in the middle part of the country -- from Wyoming to Nebraska. During one of our classes, the instructor related to some us that his father who was working as a plumber when they lived in Wyoming was once called to the home of Dick Cheney to fix his kitchen sink. The plumber father did indeed fix the sink but found it quite odd to have his work overseen by Cheney wearing just his underwear!

This story just corroborates all the rest of the lore and newspaper stories of his duck hunter hunting, etc., that this guy Cheney is twisted.

JohnW1141 wrote on July 6, 2007 9:45 AM:

Over the last few years its become standard procedure in cities and towns across the country for police to make public the names of men who were arrested in hooker stings set up by the same police depts. Ergo......according to Newt's Contract with America, Congress must obey the same laws the public must obey or pay the price.

Nyacker wrote on July 6, 2007 10:05 AM:

Honestly, who cares who's on that list? I have no interest in politicians' personal lives and/or kinks. If they stay away from my personal life, I'll stay away from theirs. I admit there is schadefreude when a "family values" type gets exposed, but other than that, this whole scene further degrades our politics.

lysias wrote on July 6, 2007 10:32 AM:

Footnote 6 of Judge Kessler's order is very interesting:

At oral argument, the Government was asked whether the List contained the telephone numbers of unindicted co-conspirators. After a significant silence, Government counsel agreed that the answer to the Court's question was "yes." One cannot help wondering why the Government has exhibited such a strong interest in protecting a list containing the telephone numbers of unindicted co-conspirators, i.e., the women who the Government alleges provided the illegal sexual services and the men who the Government alleges sought and obtained such illegal sexual services.

Jane wrote on July 6, 2007 10:51 AM:

But Nyacker, THEY broke the bargain. They are invading your persoal life -- both by listening in without warrants and by passing laws imposing their religious values and by establishing religions by funding them and by granting them special privileges such as captive audiences and exemption from zoning.

JNagarya wrote on July 6, 2007 11:44 AM:

Oh to be a divorce lawyer in D.C. ...

Posted by: blogenfreude
Date: July 5, 2007 6:32 PM

Oh to have the genitals which can be used to gather gold . . .

SC = regret. As in, For some, sufficient cash can erase regret.

JNagarya wrote on July 6, 2007 11:49 AM:

Wayne Marsden was all over it and he was not sued, whacked or threatened... yet.

lesbian lynne and their lesbian daughter what's a Dickkk to do?

apparently, Palfrey's outfit also supplied the sex workers to Dusty Foggo's poker parties and Dukkke Cunningham.

Posted by: Garth
Date: July 6, 2007 12:31 AM

Wayne Madsen is a joke (has he ever identified any of his sources as other than "reliable" "anonymous"?). His BS is the equivalent of tabloid, only lacking the collor photos. He "threatens" no one in power: he's in it for the money.

JNagarya wrote on July 6, 2007 11:55 AM:

Honestly, who cares who's on that list? I have no interest in politicians' personal lives and/or kinks. If they stay away from my personal life, I'll stay away from theirs. I admit there is schadefreude when a "family values" type gets exposed, but other than that, this whole scene further degrades our politics.

Posted by: Nyacker
Date: July 6, 2007 10:05 AM

The whole point is to expose the hypocrites for what they are: hypocrites. Falwell? Pat Robertson? Bill Bennett? Santimonious wholier-than thu morally superior religiofundmentalists who front the movement to establish a theocracy.

J. Lewd wrote on July 6, 2007 12:39 PM:

I hate to disappoint all of you, but I sincerely doubt Dick Cheney is on that list. Insiders say the man has yet to find a woman who can lay under his swollen, pustulant form long enough to suffer through his momentary, spastic, two-inch thrusts. I also heard he impregnated his wife with a turkey baster (which would explain his hypocritical sack-of-shit daughter).

P.S. -- If Palfrey traffics in women, you can bet there won't be any Republicans on the list.

ewastud wrote on July 6, 2007 1:18 PM:

Cheney is clearly a VERY strange character and it is hard to be sure just what is going on in that a-hole's head. I have an amusing anecdote to share about him from a second-hand source.

I recently took a workshop in screenprinting from an instructor who grew up in the middle part of the country -- from Wyoming to Nebraska. During one of our classes, the instructor related to some us that his father who was working as a plumber when they lived in Wyoming was once called to the home of Dick Cheney to fix his kitchen sink. The plumber father did indeed fix the sink but found it quite odd to have his work overseen by Cheney wearing just his underwear!

This story just corroborates all the rest of the lore and newspaper stories of his duck hunter hunting, etc., that this guy Cheney is twisted.

ewastud wrote on July 6, 2007 1:20 PM:

Cheney is clearly a VERY strange character and it is hard to be sure just what is going on in that a-hole's head. I have an amusing anecdote to share about him from a second-hand source.

I recently took a workshop in screenprinting from an instructor who grew up in the middle part of the country -- from Wyoming to Nebraska. During one of our classes, the instructor related to some us that his father who was working as a plumber when they lived in Wyoming was once called to the home of Dick Cheney to fix his kitchen sink. The plumber father did indeed fix the sink but found it quite odd to have his work overseen by Cheney wearing just his underwear!

This story just corroborates all the rest of the lore and newspaper stories of his duck hunter hunting, etc., that this guy Cheney is twisted.

ewastud wrote on July 6, 2007 1:24 PM:

Cheney is clearly a VERY strange character and it is hard to be sure just what is going on in that a-hole's head. I have an amusing anecdote to share about him from a second-hand source.

I recently took a workshop in screenprinting from an instructor who grew up in the middle part of the country -- from Wyoming to Nebraska. During one of our classes, the instructor related to some us that his father who was working as a plumber when they lived in Wyoming was once called to the home of Dick Cheney to fix his kitchen sink. The plumber father did indeed fix the sink but found it quite odd to have his work overseen by Cheney wearing just his underwear!

This story just corroborates all the rest of the lore and newspaper stories of his duck hunter hunting, etc., that this guy Cheney is twisted.

ewastud wrote on July 6, 2007 1:25 PM:

Cheney is clearly a VERY strange character and it is hard to be sure just what is going on in that a-hole's head. I have an amusing anecdote to share about him from a second-hand source.

I recently took a workshop in screenprinting from an instructor who grew up in the middle part of the country -- from Wyoming to Nebraska. During one of our classes, the instructor related to some us that his father who was working as a plumber when they lived in Wyoming was once called to the home of Dick Cheney to fix his kitchen sink. The plumber father did indeed fix the sink but found it quite odd to have his work overseen by Cheney wearing just his underwear!

This story just corroborates all the rest of the lore and newspaper stories of his duck hunter hunting, etc., that this guy Cheney is twisted.

concerned citizen wrote on July 6, 2007 1:27 PM:

Cheney is clearly a VERY strange character and it is hard to be sure just what is going on in that a-hole's head. I have an amusing anecdote to share about him from a second-hand source.

I recently took a workshop in screenprinting from an instructor who grew up in the middle part of the country -- from Wyoming to Nebraska. During one of our classes, the instructor related to some us that his father who was working as a plumber when they lived in Wyoming was once called to the home of Dick Cheney to fix his kitchen sink. The plumber father did indeed fix the sink but found it quite odd to have his work overseen by Cheney wearing just his underwear!

This story just corroborates all the rest of the lore and newspaper stories of his duck hunter hunting, etc., that this guy Cheney is twisted.

concerned citizen wrote on July 6, 2007 1:30 PM:

Cheney is clearly a VERY strange character and it is hard to be sure just what is going on in that a-hole's head. I have an amusing anecdote to share about him from a second-hand source.

I recently took a workshop in screenprinting from an instructor who grew up in the middle part of the country -- from Wyoming to Nebraska. During one of our classes, the instructor related to some us that his father who was working as a plumber when they lived in Wyoming was once called to the home of Dick Cheney to fix his kitchen sink. The plumber father did indeed fix the sink but found it quite odd to have his work overseen by Cheney wearing just his underwear!

This story just corroborates all the rest of the lore and newspaper stories of his duck hunter hunting, etc., that this guy Cheney is twisted.

JK wrote on July 6, 2007 7:43 PM:

White House on list initially:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Brian Ross, a day or two before his story aired, when putting out a teaser for the show, asserted that high level White House officials were on the list, but when the show aired he said the opposite (i.e. recanted). This reminds me of CNN's Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre who on 9/11/01 said live on camera at the Pentagon: "from my close up inspection there is no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near here …" but then in May 2006 while commenting on the released video from the Pentagon showing the white blur said: “having seen the plane wreckage and photographed it myself personally I can tell you that that’s nonsense". It makes you wander with both Brian Ross and Jamie McIntyre, who said what to whom prior to their second statements." With both, I tend to think the first statement is more believable. JK

Harmonika Savingsbonds wrote on July 7, 2007 11:38 AM:

I wanna see ugly divorces come from this. I want Republican suicides over their poor judgment.

Mooser wrote on July 8, 2007 1:39 PM:

On the whole, I do find the idea that government service render men incapable of normal sexual or family relations to be alarming. The single ones: can't they find a girlfriend? The married ones: did you make that bad a choice that resort to sex workers is necessary?
Geez!
The all knowing security code, of course, suggests: hand!

ski wrote on July 10, 2007 4:19 AM:

Now the rest of the world knows what I've understood since I briefly worked at the Chicago (State St.)ABC studios awhile back...the lame-stream TV media are congenital fakers and ABC are the champs. We've already got one repug Senator confessing to "sin" and Madame Palfrey's phone records have been online for less than 24 hrs. "No members of Congress," indeed. LIARS!

ABC= Always Broaching Crap

Billing wrote on October 6, 2007 4:20 AM:

Palfrey list Sounds like the black book of 1918
That trial of the century was removed clean out of all books.
The list there had 47000 names.
The list here is 46000 phone records.
The listed are not womenizers or machos or ordinary sinners.
They are power brokers, gay, Lutheran Shock and Awe agitators of all wars.
And they are only the cover for the real pimps deep underground.
Deborah Palfrey deserves the First Billing award for clean governance.
A curse on Justice Charles Darling and Judge Gladys Kessler.

Noel Pemberton-Billing
Trial of the Century

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