ABC’s Ross: DC Madam’s List Includes White House & Pentagon Officials, Prominent Lawyers

[Pirate Smile]

ABC’s Ross: DC Madam’s List Includes White House & Pentagon Officials, Prominent Lawyers

ABC News’ Brian Ross revealed tonight that the list of customers of an alleged Washington-based prostitution service includes White House and Pentagon officials as well as prominent attorneys.

“There are thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers,” Ross said. “And there are people there at the Pentagon, lobbyists, others at the White House, prominent lawyers — a long, long list.” Ross added that the women who worked for the service, potentially as prostitutes, “include university professors, legal secretaries, scientists, military officers.”

On Friday, Ross broke the news that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias had frequented the escort service. Ross added new details to that story tonight, recounting how he asked Tobias in a telephone interview “if he knew any of the young women, their names. He said he didn’t remember them at all. He said it was like ordering pizza.”

Watch it:

UPDATE: The Washington Post carries a front-page profile of the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, in Sunday’s paper. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801192.html?nav=rss_politics

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/28/ross-white-house-madam/

[qanda]

1. Sounds like this could get very interesting

[LisaL]

3. It sure does.

[jaxx]

2. Where's the list, I want to see the names.

Did Gannon/Guckert work for her?

[Pirate Smile]

6. I found this part surprising - "Ross added that the women who worked for the service, potentially as

prostitutes, “include university professors, legal secretaries, scientists, military officers.”'




:wtf:

[LisaL]

8. Escort servicing likely pays more.

[Theduckno2]

16. America: Home of Multitasking.

If someone could drink coffee, talk on a cell phone and drive a car at the same time, why couldn't a scientist also work for an escort service? :)

What surprises me is the high levels of tenseness in Washington that leads to all those "massages". :)

On a serious note though, it could be many of these patrons may have been entrusted or had access to sensitive information and therefore could have become security risks as the result of their behavior.

[bleever]

21. Three great points.

Nicely said.

[aquart]

24. Never heard of nooners?

Years ago, I was told some Pratt students paid for their paints by hanging out at the Plaza. If they did it at one school....

[Pirate Smile]

36. Sure but I don't think of them as being paid for as opposed to the standard nooner with

your spouse or bf/gf or mistress/paramour.

I would think University Presidents make decent $$$ and to be a call girl on the side seems unbelievable risky but, I guess, people do unbelievably risky things all the time. Example 1 would be the Big Dog.

[The Backlash Cometh]

27. What does that tell you?

We're a very conflicted society. There's a side which is visible and critical of anything that doesn't walk the straight and narrow, and another side where the "in crowd" gets to play after dark, until the political climate changes.

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. break out the napkins, folks. This is gonna be juicy!

White House Officials

Pentagon Officials

High Powered Lawyers

Open the curtains and let the sun shine in!**

**Disclaimer: I don't think sex is bad and I don't care who's sleeping with whom... I just enjoy hypocrites being exposed**

[Pithy Cherub]

5. Bush sleazy White House patronage is everywhere!

Could be the most popular people in DC over the next few weeks are divorce attorneys.:crazy:

(Hope no Dems are on that list.:hide:)

:popcorn:

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Well, of course there will be Dems.

And the whole thing will be played as a bipartisan scandal, no matter what the proportions of Puggies to Dems.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. And all of them...

Every last one are strong family men and moral exemplars who were shocked, SHOCKED at the behavior of Bill Clinton.

Isn't it great that the adults are in control in Washington?

Do I really need a tag here?

[jberryhill]

15. But of course..

you see, they PAID for their sex. Clinton didn't.

[Cha]

9. Garlic and

Anchovies, anyone? Jeeze, if it's not one thing it's another!

[threadkillaz]

13. 10 bucks he added sausage to the pizza once it arrived

:+

[dysfunctional press]

41. here's the pizza...and here's the pepperoni...

zzzzzziippp...

[badgerpup]

26. hold the anchovies for me please...

but I'll take artichoke hearts and spinach if it's available...:beer:

This is gonna get really ugly pretty convoluted...and this may be the final straw.
I know we've been saying that, but remember last year?

Scandal after scandal after scandal...blood, lies about the war, money, corruption...yeah, yeah, more of the same, what can ya do...
But throw in sex- in the persons of some teenage interns and a horny old congressman who should damn well know better than to be robbing cradles (especially THAT particular congressman) and
:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:BLAMMO:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

Suddenly everybody's had way too much of this shit, so much so that even tweaked voting machines, 'undervoting', lost votes and 'THE math' wasn't enough to keep the Repubs in power in the House and Senate.

[Cha]

35. You can have anything you want..

:P There's too much EVEN for the corporatemedia to hide and helping our Country in the process. There's an incredible amount of rope and they're still unraveling it for further self-destruction.

Someone in the corporatemedia should be on their way to winning a Pulizter by now but they'd rather do steno.

[WCGreen]

10. You know there are going to be a lot of democrats on that list....

But what is so great about it when a GOP'er falls prey to the temptations of the flesh, something they try to sell to the poor schlubs who vote for them, it just exposes another log for the bonfire of the vanity that is conservatism....

[Cha]

12. Dems? Noooooooooooo!

THey don't need to pay for it..do they?

That's right..it's the hypocricy! Everyone knows Liberals are heathens but repugs?..they got those family values they're always jawin' about.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

39. Yep, but the good news is the Repugs have been calling them immoral sinners for years

Now how the people who bought that BS are going to feel about seeing the morally superior Republican they voted for on that list is another matter.

[EVDebs]

11. Operation Gemstone updated for today's White House and CIA...

FBI probes Watergate prostitution allegations
Infamous hotel used by defense contractor to entertain lawmakers?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250/

Enjoy our donuts and prostitutes !

FYI, Operation Gemstone, G. Gordon Liddy etc.
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/2866.html

and

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmagruder.htm

[BadGimp]

17. Who's wearing the Blue Dress NOW RepubliPervs?

:)

If my gut is right this could paint these assclowns as the most imoral administration in history... hahaha fat chance right?

[file83]

34. But Monica wasn't even a prostitute! This is WAY worse.

[ananda]

18. A woman is a pizza.

That about says it all about those Reep mf's.

[Mind_your_head]

19. The whole citizenry (of which these 'leaders' are supposed to represent)

are "pizza" to these guys with small *brains* (above & below) and HUGE egos....to be used, consumed, thrown away, barfed up - whatever suits their need at the moment. What a sickening bunch of fools we've let steer this mighty ship of America.

A MAJOR housecleaning is in order. Perhaps we should limit the terms of our senators, reps, and others in high position to only 4-8 years? At this point, I think I would America would be better off with "honest inexperience" than "experienced corruption".

[Blackhatjack]

20. Frequenting of prostitutes will hurt Repubs most with their fundie conservative base...

The 'holier than thou' attitude and practices of the 'moral police' Repubs will really resonate with the Falwell/Dobson/Perkins followers who have been enamored by the Repubs push for 'family values.'

They will overlook almost anything Repubs do EXCEPT sex.

If you were a writer on the Daily Show or Colbert Report, you must be wondering where to start with so much material busting out all over.

I guess we can look forward to lots more Repub 'bios' being scrubbed from the web as folks 'resign office for personal reasons.'

[Blackhatjack]

22. Don't forget to remind Repubs they were going to return morality to Washington, remember?

[magellan]

23. Oh! 2-0 to the Repugs so far!

Let's see, first the father of Shock & Awe™, then the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. Who from the holier-than-thou set will be next to be caught with his pants down?

:popcorn:

[deadparrot]

25. This is one game I wouldn't mind losing.

Hell, I'd love to be shut out. :)

[Kablooie]

28. Damn. Why can't I get on a list like that? Sounds like fun.

[Raksha]

29. Whores in Washington D.C.?

Tell me something I don't know already. Let's see, we've got the White House press corps, a bunch of congressmen who sell their souls to lobbyists on a regular basis...oh yeah, and the old-fashioned kind who rent out their bodies. It would be easier to count the people in that town who AREN'T whores.

[Eurobabe]

30. What's this about Dick Morris, that asshat??

"Sibley also filed notice that he intends to depose political consultant Dick Morris in a separate civil proceeding. Morris would not comment."

Is he going down too? :rofl:

[progressoid]

31. Expect a lot of phone number changes in DC in the coming weeks!

[AllyCat]

32. Oh please oh please oh please release the names!

You just know it's going to be bad.

[file83]

33. Without the names, this "story" only functions as a threat.

What it amounts to is a warning shot over the bow of the power structure, a blackmail attempt. This is a power play. Somebody wants something, and I guarantee you, they'll get it. These names will NEVER be released. Never.

[happydreams]

37. Family values sure have changed in recent

years. :eyes:

[Renew Deal]

38. Tony Snow?

Even the Bushies wouldn't do something like that.

[happydreams]

40. Was there ever a list of Jeff Gannon's "clients"?

That could be a wonderful addition to this.

[Skidmore]

42. Will the Bennett brothers be there?

Let's watch to see who disappears from the teevee commentary circuit. That should be telling.

[Hubert Flottz]

43. "I'll have a medium meat lovers, hold the crust!"

What will we tell the children?

No wonder they couldn't capture Bin Laden, they were too spent.

Viagra and Republicans are the Devil's workshop.

[kedrys]

44. Popcorn!

This should be good. :popcorn:

[Major Hogwash]

45. Wow, these liars were going to restore integrity to the White House went to a whore house instead!

Gotta love the irony of that.

[Gabi Hayes]

46. at least a month ago I saw on TV a clear reference to this case, and it said that only ONE

name on that list, at that point, was common knowledge.

I'm not going to say who it is....just going to bookmark this post when it comes out, because it will blow away ALL the pug names on the list, and my guess is the M$M will concentrate on that one name to the exclusion of ALL the others

just watch

hope I'm wrong, but I couldn't believe they put that name out there, and I saw NO comment by any media outlet, or here at DU, either

course, I could have been hallucinating, but time will tell, cause you'll see what I mean

[hiaasenrocks]

47. This is bad (for them) because it makes hypocrites of them. However...

I don't see the larger problem. There should be no legal intervention in business such as this. Like drugs, prostitution should be decriminalized.