'More Names Will Come Out,' Lawyer in D.C. Escort Case Vows

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Source: The Washington Post

'More Names Will Come Out,' Lawyer in D.C. Escort Case Vows

By Sue Anne Pressley Montes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 11, 2007; Page A02

For months, alleged D.C. madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey has promised that her voluminous phone records -- all 46 pounds of them -- contained some powerful secrets. Within hours of their public release, a senator acknowledged Monday night that his telephone number was on the list.

Now, groups such as one calling itself Citizens for Legitimate Government, which runs a liberal Web site, are poring over the records, hoping to translate the raw numbers into more names and revelations. Montgomery Blair Sibley, Palfrey's civil attorney, said the records were given to 50 interested individuals or groups who "wanted to remain anonymous," after a federal judge's release of the records last week.

The records, covering the years 1993 through 2006, contain mostly outgoing calls from Palfrey's former business, Pamela Martin and Associates.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001881.html

[razzleberry]

1. why should I believe any of this?

any of this could be fake

[Zynx]

2. Phone records can be verified by the phone company.

And I'm not much of one to believe in conspiracies.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Yeah, it's all fake and stuff." - Jeff Gannon, republicon male prostitute

"Just because a notorious male prostitute like me could visit George AWOL Bush's White House over 200 times, with overnights, and get a security clearance, and then have the corporate media snoooze right past the sleaze, is no reason to believe that other republicon cronies are into deviant sex and stuff."

- Jeff Gannon, Official Bush White House republicon Male Prostitute

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4. I have the scanned documents on a disc - they appear to be 'legit.'

--Lori

[Ian David]

13. Lori, thank you guys for doing this. Let me know if I can help. n/t

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15. Thank you so much - PM coming. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

16. The format suggests the records are legit

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. no it is not fake

[AlCzervik]

11. well hey Vitter came out and had to make a statement so i guess there is some real

in there somewhere.

[yardwork]

19. Apparently David Vitter's information was not fake.

He admitted that his numbers appear on the list.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Good.

I hope it hits the news before Friday.

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6. Yup, we're going on Tucker tonight (scheduled) so the news will

get out before Friday.
I should say, the producer said, 'consider it booked,' but breaking news could always preclude the appearance.
Michael Rectenwald of CLG is going to do the interview.
Lori

[Ian David]

14. He should ask Tucker about the "ridiculously WASPED-out" woman with him at the video store.

If Tucker gives you a hard time, ask him if the woman mentioned here was his wife:


Tucker Carlson Gets Blogger Fired, Rents "Crash"

Fun Fact: If you blog about how Tucker Carlson opened an account at the video store you work at, he will get you fired.

As Wonkette readers know, Tucker Carlson has been Googling himself a lot recently. And, unsurprisingly, he’s not happy with most of the results. We regret that we’ve received only terse, incomprehensible emails, and haven’t had awesome face-to-face exchanges with him like this:

Tucker: If you keep this shit up, I will fucking destroy you.
The Genius (Me): Whoah, perhaps you would like to take this outside where you can continue threatening me without disturbing the other customers.
Tucker: Looks out the window, then back at me I am not threatening you.
The Genius: You just said you would fucking destroy me.
Tucker: No, I didn’t.

Did this actually happen? The fired blogger mentions that Tucker looks much more “tan” (orange) in real life than on TV, which we noted too. And a guy who just learned to Google himself last month probably hasn’t signed up for Netflix yet. So yes, it’s probably all true. And we’re shocked — shocked! — that a cable tv pundit is kind of a dick.

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you want to know what the whole post said that got tucker riled up?

Tucker Carlson opened an account last night at my video store. I thought the name seemed familiar but I couldn't figure out why. It was after he left that I realized he was on the list of Gigantic Cobagz. I could tell you what he and his ridiculously wasped-out female companion (wife?) rented if you really want to know. I won't tell you where he lives, though. That would be wrong and stupid. I will also not be running around ordering 10,000 copies of America: The Book and having it sent to his place even if that would be more awesome than frozen urine treats for his home.

He said he would give it out. As far as I know, he never did and he even took the post down when Tucker Carlson came and started threatnening to destroy him.

For doing that, Tucker then starts talking to the video store and gets him fired. That seems like a little bit of over-reaction to me.
More:
http://wonkette.com/politics/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-gets-blogger-fired-rents-crash-227310.php

[bdamomma]

8. I want some big names on those lists!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Now this is the kind of stuff the majority of people like to read

in the Washington Post it was the top read article of the day!

[Javaman]

10. Personally I find all of this very convenient.

Yeah there are people from both parties on this list. blah blah blah.

but what I find interesting is how the information is being dripped out.

Yes, she released the records, but the links to those records have been so clunky to connect to, that most people don't want to bother and want to wait for the MSM to spoon feed them to us. Am I the only one who finds the bizarre?

now they launch this latest announcement that there is "more to come".

I don't know, but this seems more of a coordinated effort to stretch this out and build it up to be something that frankly, I could give a flying fuck about, all in a clever way to divert the mouth breathers of America from the important issues.

But then again, when people thirst for the latest whatever bullshit regarding miss spears and aren't even aware that crimes have been committed by the prez*, is it any wonder why this smoke screen is so amusingly stupid?

[wordpix]

18. lol, Larry Flynt says he's behind the drip, drip, drip & it's gonna be a fun election year!

He's offered $1M to those offering hardcore (pardon the pun) evidence---maybe that is the Madam's motivation. His motivation is to help Dems win and payback repukes for the Clenis impeachment

[Ian David]

12. I have mixed feelings about Citizens for Legitimate Government, but one thing is for sure...

They're hard-working, tenacious and not at all lazy.

I'm going to give them some well-earned praise for doing this.

[Psephos]

17. This is worse than Paris Hilton watching

There will be Dems and pugs on the client list. Newsflash: members of both parties get horny.

Either it matters or it doesn't. I'm with the faction that says it doesn't. Like I said ten years ago.

[yardwork]

20. It matters to me because of the hypocrisy and the way the right-wing went after Clinton.

I'm tired of the hypocrisy. I know people who vote Republican because they sincerely believe that Democrats have no moral values. They run out and vote for people like David Vitter because they believe the hype. They believe that people like David Vitter are really stand-up Christian good guys who will restore moral value to the country.

The truth is that bushco uses "moral values" as a way to get idiots to vote for them, over and over and over again.

Let's get the the truth out there. David Vitter said that stopping gay marriage was the single most important issue facing this country. I think that his behavior with prostitutes therefore becomes an issue.

[Psephos]

21. I do agree with you

The moral values argument is a fraud, and if we can neutralize the false perception that somehow repugs have the morality market cornered, the country as a whole benefits.

But we have our own dirty laundry list, too, and always will. Morality is apolitical; it comes from a person's character, not their party. Neither Democrats nor Repugs have a monopoly on morals. What we do have is a different sense of what's moral, which is endlessly exploited by both parties for selfish and hateful reasons.

There are strong reasons why human populations contain both conservative and liberal types of people. In prehistoric times, tribes needed conservatives to preserve practices and beliefs that had shown survival value over many generations, and they needed liberals to advance newer, riskier ways of doing things, riskier because had not yet been proven. In short, conservatives guaranteed survivability today; liberals guaranteed survivability tomorrow through the possibility of adaptation. If this split had not been an evolutionary advantage, then Nature would have edited it out of the human genome, and there would not be a conservative-liberal spectrum.

My original point was that if sex doesn't matter, then it's hypocrisy for us to now say it does. We should pick one position or the other. The general public will equate repug hypocrisy over sex to our newfound hypocrisy over sex. By suddenly turning into finger-pointing sexual prigs, we're providing them political cover. Seems simple to me. Finger-pointing sexual prig is not my idea of what we stand for.

[yardwork]

22. I agree with your points as well.

For the record, I stated at the time that Clinton should have resigned after he lied under oath, even though the Monica Lewinsky affair was not the country's business. It was a witch hunt, but Clinton did lie, and I felt and said that he should resign at the time. I would say the same about a Democrat being as hypocritical as Vitter.

Vitter should resign because his position is compromised.