by- Suzie-Q @ 5:40 PM MST
WASHINGTON — The phone records of the accused D.C. Madam have been posted online and are available for public viewing.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, tells WTOP he changed his plan of distributing the information — which includes calls from 1994-2006 — only to journalists after he learned of one organization’s plan to post the numbers in their entirety.
Sibley says after he began distributing CDs with the information, he was alerted that their security coding wasn’t sophisticated enough to prevent hacking, and it would be easy to make someone’s number appear on the list even if it hadn’t been originally.
When he initially offered the records to journalists and bloggers last week, it was with the condition that the information would not be posted in its entirety.
“I sent out 54 discs with the records on them,” Sibley says. “[Monday] morning, we got calls and emails saying there wasn’t any security on the coding and the numbers were going to be all over the place anyway. I got one email that said the agreement isn’t enforceable, and that group intended to release the records for free.”
Sibley wouldn’t identify the group further than saying it was a D.C.-based organization. When he initially offered the records, Sibley pledged he wouldn’t disclose which news organizations received copies.
“It’s an evolution from how we planned to put the numbers out,” he says. “Our original thought of coding each disc so we’d know who violated the agreement wasn’t sophisticated enough. It’s so easy to accuse somebody, and once you do that, the retraction is useless.”
Posting the numbers online does leave him open for criticism, but Sibley says in balancing the evils, this was the correct decision.
“That’s why we’re putting out the numbers, so there’s one official list, and any list that’s different can be compared to ours,” he says.
Palfrey is accused of running a prostitution service catering to men in the area. Her business, Pamela Martin & Associates, is said to have entertained 15,000 customers in the Washington, D.C. area between 1993 and 2006.
I did receive a disk but downloading makes it available to everybody now! 😉
Busy day for me… I’m trying to get caught up with all of my blogging buddies blogs too. 😉
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Teak:
Thanks for that link! 😉
When I click on the link, I get “Service Temporarily Unavailable.” Must be busy!
Suzie-Q,
The radical rightwing, family-values conservative Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana was a client of the DC Madam.
Vitter is a classic GOP hypocrite.
His 2004 campaign for the senate was a “slash and burn, campaign” run by the former Grand Dragon of Ku Klux Klan, David Duke.
The pathetic Vitter is already issuing mea culpas and invoking the Bible to try and generate sympathy in his winger base.
Any sign of Darth yet?
well the David Vitter admission is very interesting, because in 2004 he denied paying a prostitute in New Orleans for sex, while he was a member of the US House of representatives , when he was asked about it during his campaign for the US Senate.
But NOW he admits he was paying a prostitute in Washington for sex at that very same time;
So would his new defense of his previous denial be;
I couldn’t have been paying a prostitute in New Orleans for sex, because I was paying a prostitute in Washington DC for sex while I was a member of the US House of Representatives……
He should be asked if HE lied to the voters of Louisiana, and if he should resign for LYING to the very people he claims top represent, and that is NOT a private family matter any wife can forgive, it is the people all of them he LIED to.
Where is the reichwing outrage?
BTW since David Vitter is the chairman of Rudy’s southern campaign strategy, I wonder if anybody wants to ask RUDY about his ability to judge the character of the people he surrounds himself with;
1. Remember he made a mafia connected con man the commissioner of the police in NYC and pushed him for the Sec of Homeland security job, before it was publicly known how bog a crook Bernie Kerik is.
2. Rudy’s South Carolina chairman was caught with cocaine……..
3. Rudy’s southern strategy chairman is caught using the services of the DC Madam after he denied doing exactly the very same thing in New Orleans when he ran for the US senate…..
4. Rudy needs to come clean why he is surrounding himself with people of such questionable character…….
BTW with Rudy’s well known inability to remain faithful to his spouses, I wonder how long before his Phone Number, or one of his criminal associates appears on the list……
Great minds, Suzie. 🙂
Has anyone gone fishin’ in those files?
Any sign of Darth yet?
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Punditman:
We’re looking at those records… will go public when we find something! 😉
Has anyone gone fishin’ in those files?
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TomCat:
Nothin’ like summer fishin’! 🙂
4. Rudy needs to come clean why he is surrounding himself with people of such questionable character…….
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Hi Clif!
Welcome to the Suzie-Q blog!
Thank you for your insightful comments…
And, yes, Rudy is associated with some very shady characters… mob types..