Bloggers hunt for names of possible clients in Washington escort service's phone files

[autorank]

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald


July 14, 2007 - 7:50AM


With the recent release of reams of phone records from a woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring, bloggers and others online have taken up the cause of hunting for links to elected officials and other prominent people.

Titillated by the prospect of uncovering another name like that of Sen. David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who admitted his number was on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service phone list, bloggers, many of them liberal, are scouring the records and publishing what they find.

"Some top level Republicans are making statements about lifestyles and family values," said Lori Price, editor of the liberal Citizens for Legitimate Government website, explaining her motivation. "We want to see if they are in fact living their lives based on what they are preaching and forcing us to comply with. We see some hypocrisy."

So far, no names matching the caliber of Vitter's have been uncovered, although blogger David Corn, the Washington editor of the liberal weekly The Nation, found a phone number with a Senate prefix from 1999. And the Chicago Tribune reported on one of its blogs earlier this week that the records show a call from the escort service to the newspaper's national desk in Chicago in 2001.



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[CJCRANE]

1. Go get 'em!

It's interesting that the article says "many of them liberal".

Maybe RW bloggers and freepers are scared of what they might uncover..?

;)

[Bitwit1234]

2. I found something interesting but I don't know what to make of it.

There were numerous numbers in different states that were listed to a Neira's Whirl. Think that was the number. But that was all the information found it in DC, VA, MD and either AL of GA. Wonder what it was. Google didn't find anything except the bunch of numbers.

[autorank]

3. That's odd, here's the link to the #'s

http://www.legitgov.org/

Amazing isn't it. Palfrey chose an internet site for to get the exclusive, the site above.

Also,ABC's Brian Ross had these #'s and didn't find anything.

Good luck with that. Send a message to CLG at that site, they would be interested.

[noel adamson]

4. Links to records - please distribute!

I only found a few records at that site autorank but links to the tiffs seem to be around the net

http://www.humboldtcorruption.org/phones.zip (my site)
http://www.oneclickgeek.com/calllist/Tiffs.zip

I have not seen searchable versions other than my own which I created easily enough with Optical Character Recognition software and was able to find my small town listed twice in it's 2352 pages in short order. I don't recognize the names and didn't call the numbers of the two different people listed as their owners.I posted links to the searchable text version here a couple of days ago. Here they are again;

http://www.demonoid.com/files/download/HTTP/1246198/8902136/ is a torrent which I reposted after the first one simply disappeared. and

http://www.humboldtcorruption.org/allPhoneBills.pdf is a direct download on a site I maintain. Well actually I have neglected it but I can download the 70 megabyte PDF at 600 k/sec.

[Emit]

5. It's just another blogger who posted the DC Madam's list

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Q8ZrIZ_zVY0J:neriaswhirl.blogspot.com/2007/07/dc-madam-phone-records-released.html+202+251-5678&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us