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Alleged D.C. Madam Will Name Clients

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Posted on Apr 30, 2007
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Deborah Palfrey, the alleged head of a multimillion-dollar prostitution service in the nation’s capital, says she plans to call on high-profile clients to testify at her trial.

Last week a deputy secretary of state who had called for cracking down on global prostitution admitted he was a client of her escort service and resigned.

Palfrey, who maintains she ran a legal sexual fantasy and escort business, has also said a military strategist who helped come up with “shock and awe” was a client.


BBC:

Before he stepped down, Mr Tobias ran the Bush administration’s programme to crack down on prostitution worldwide.

He was also criticised in his role as US Global Aids co-ordinator when he advocated partner fidelity and abstinence, instead of condoms, to help limit the spread of the HIV virus.

Another man alleged by Ms Palfrey to be a “regular customer” is the military strategist, Harlan Ullman, who helped develop the doctrine of “Shock and Awe”.

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By Lord Purple, July 15, 2007 at 7:54 pm #

In the Name of Brutus

Dames and Gents,

        In times unprecedented and tinged with despair, it is appropriate to reflect on the founding of our great nation. It was not with George Washington, but with Brutus, and not the one who killed Caeser. There was another who rebelled against the tyrant monarchy of Rome, The Tarquins. He wrote the Roman Constitution that would stand for 500 years. His sons sided with the monarchy. The monarchy lost. So to punish his sons and found a perfect union, he immolated his own sons.
      Machiavelli speaks fluently and voluminoulsy and voiciferously on this subject, in ‘The Discourses’, and yet is proved wrong on several counts by the miracle of America. He says that a nation founded in servitude, as America was a colony, will never win its freedom. He also says that a nation founded on fertile soil that is easily defended, will in time loose all of its freedoms because it will become, eventually, inevitably, sloth and sated, and will forget to protect them.
      As regards ‘The DC Madam’, I am personally involved. You can view my involvement at http://www.maytheygetwhattheydeserve.com/KAT.html
Sometimes a mouse will lead you to a kat, and a kat can lead you to a rat and a rat, ironically, can lead you to the truth. And the truth, as they say, and as it is written, will set you free.
      May all those who sincerely and patiently wait for freedom be free and may all those who desire to steal those freedoms find instead the dire consequences that accompany contempt for a great man like Brutus.

As regards Machiavelli,
eram sapiens tamen nefas
And again,
vox vocis publicus est vox vocis deus

May The Republic stand forever and bring the Glory of The World, with Dignity, into Its Treasury.

Purple

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By Douglas Chalmers, May 2, 2007 at 7:28 am #

Oh, the guilt… oh, the shame, ha ha!

This must be the USA’s 2007 equivalent of the British 1960’s cold war “John Profumo” affair in which their Secretary of State for War was exposed as prancing around with a call-girl who was the girl-friend of a a senior naval attaché at the Russian embassy in London.

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By rowdy, May 2, 2007 at 12:01 am #

while i hate all republicans and hope the “madam’s” list is full of the hypocritical assholes, i hope to hear some democrats names as well. they are guilty of the same kind of crap as the repubs. it would be great if she just threw out the name lieberman as a joke, because we all know that ball less asshole has no use for a woman.

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By Leefeller, May 1, 2007 at 3:58 pm #
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Really do not care if she names me as one of her clients, we just talked about “Harry Potter”.

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By THOMAS BILLIS, May 1, 2007 at 2:07 pm #
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Who could have guessed that an abstinence pledge does not include hookers.I hope they close this loophole quickly before the children find out.What do we tell the children?They have just gotten over the trauma of what Bill Clinton was doing now this.I hear that if right afterward you quote scripture it does not count.All that begating stuff does not count.These Republicans are great Wolfie with his paramour,Tobias with hookers, Mark Foley with young men and that evangelical with older men and meth.I have to go down and change my party affiliation and get my Bible out of the bottom drawer.

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By QuyTran, May 1, 2007 at 2:03 pm #

Nothing wrong with her and her profession. When we have President, Vice-President…why don’t we have Madam to run monkey house ? To run a monkey house and to run the White House will be no different.

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By Leefeller, May 1, 2007 at 1:08 pm #
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If she ran for president, she already has the first part of the title (Madam).  They will never legalize prostitution, because Wal Mart will drop the prices.

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By michael, May 1, 2007 at 12:45 pm #
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Lets see wolfie goes to work for the world bank to promote no corpution but gets his girlfriend and new job with big pay raise.  now this guy who called for a crackdown on prostitution gets caught using a escort service(  word is he only got massages no sex yea right )  the conservative preacher who rails agianst gays but has a gay escort come over to his hotel room. ( agian just for a massage no sex) and a president that has a war on terror that has only caused MORE TERROR. what is wrong with this picture

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, May 1, 2007 at 11:58 am #

In matters of SEX, even though men can’t hold a candle to women, men will prevail.  That’s the way the world is supposed to work.  MEN, MEN, MEN, MEN!!! Now, let’s talk about RELIGION!!

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By G. Anderson, May 1, 2007 at 11:31 am #
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Politics, has always been about sex. Repression, makes hypocrites of us all.

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By Outraged, May 1, 2007 at 11:29 am #

So I was wondering….: Does it count if you have sex and you don’t orgasm?

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By Christopher Robin, May 1, 2007 at 10:13 am #
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She’s our best hope for a speedy end to this national nightmare.

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By Jesse C., May 1, 2007 at 9:21 am #
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Now that she is naming names, which I think is only fair…will any of the ‘Johns’ be prosecuted beyond a slap on the hand (misdemeanor charges) and having to resign a job?  I say ‘Kudos’ to Ms. Palfrey…fair is fair…You play, you pay!

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By jatihoon, May 1, 2007 at 8:37 am #

sex is not a sin, but a pleasure. As you know the biggest sex organ in body is “BRAIN”. AS long brain is alive sex is alive.

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By Tom Doff, May 1, 2007 at 4:14 am #
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The latest ‘Big Buzz’ in the Capitol is whether Laura was ‘On Call’ for Deborah.

The rumor speculates that this may have been the only way Laura and Newt could continue to meet secretly, after the brouhaha caused by their 2001 Inauguration ‘Ball’.

Reportedly, Newt’s code name on the Madam’s file is ‘Mr. Clean’.

Laura’s is ‘Naughty Schoolteacher’.

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By Leefeller, May 1, 2007 at 2:16 am #
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Is it me, am I the only one that feels the folks in Washington D. C. are in Never Never Land.  Did they make a big deal about Clinton, only because he got it for free.  They all seem to be the pot calling the kettle black. We need to clean house, the White House.

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