Songs from the Site Meter: All roads lead to San Diego...

Site Meter--Some very curious hits recently, a kind of a "cluster"-effect. In my research into the Palfrey/DC Madam scandal, most all roads led to San Diego. The other area it went back to again and again wasn't exclusively geographical, but thematic and behavioral: lobbying in Washington D.C. by defense and intelligence contractors, and other lesser lights.

One recurrent theme in the research pointed to the abuse of minority-owned govt. contractors and laws created to favor them in the bidding process so as to facilitate business and economic activity within those communities. Instead, what sometimes happens is that a large contractor creates a dummy corporation masquerading as a minority-owned contractor and uses it to acquire more contracts than it's qualified to under federal law. That's right, it's illegal, especially when you're not rich and connected.


Suspect-A: Christopher D. Baker and his Shirlington Limo service which fits this model, although it could just as easily be a CIA front company, or even a hybrid of both. Baker's criminal rap-sheet is a whopping 61 pages long according to most sources, yet he continues to acquire multi-million dollar contracts from DHS, again and again, and even when someone like Rep. Louise Slaughter is openly questioning it during hearings and calling for investigations. Somehow, I think Baker's still doing fine under the new boss in the White House.

Suspect-B: ASRC Constructors, Inc., based in Alaska, and Inuit-owned...or at least that's what their paperworks states. This firm was mentioned-in-passing during the investigation and trial of former Alaskan Senator, Ted Stevens, for accepting gifts from--what else?--govt. contractors. Some are now claiming that Stevens was railroaded and that there was "prosecutorial misconduct." That's not out of the question, but that doesn't mean he's innocent either. Take it from someone who watched a guilty woman railroaded. "So what?" some might say. Ever heard of due process? What if you were being accused and you were innocent? Give that some thought...

There are other examples, other "suspects" in materials that I've seen from the DC Madam scandal, and there are probably others waiting to be found. The most stunning name I found in Palfrey's phone records cannot be named at this date and will only be familiar to a few: a war on terror suspect arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks in the nation's capital. He was later released since the charges against him were dubious-at-best. Most bizarre--if this is the same individual--is that they were a Verizon engineer.

Domain Name		rr.com ? (Commercial)
IP Address		66.91.242.# (Road Runner)
ISP		Road Runner
Location		Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : California City : San Diego Lat/Long : 32.8897, -117.1336 (Map)
Language		English en
Operating System		Macintosh MacOSX
Browser		Safari 1.3 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/531.21.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10
Javascript		version 1.5
Monitor		Resolution : 1440 x 900 Color Depth : 24 bits
Time of Visit		Dec 8 2009 4:51:39 am
Last Page View		Dec 8 2009 5:17:24 am
Visit Length		25 minutes 45 seconds
Page Views		2
Referring URL
Visit Entry Page		http://chickasawpick...7_05_01_archive.html
Visit Exit Page		http://chickasawpick...7_05_01_archive.html
Out Click
Time Zone		UTC-8:00
Visitor's Time		Dec 7 2009 1:51:39 pm
Visit Number		65,004

My best guess is that someone at Qualcomm saw the site and a few articles and went home to read more in the above hit. I began writing about the DC Madam in late April and early May of 2007. By the first week of June, she'd noticed these observations and contacted me.

Domain Name		(Unknown)
IP Address		65.214.169.# (Qualcomm)
ISP		Verizon Business
Location		Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : California City : San Diego Lat/Long : 32.7191, -117.1607 (Map)
Language		English (U.S.) en-us
Operating System		Microsoft WinXP
Browser		Internet Explorer 7.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Javascript		version 1.3
Monitor		Resolution : 1024 x 768 Color Depth : 32 bits
Time of Visit		Dec 7 2009 11:45:11 pm
Last Page View		Dec 7 2009 11:45:11 pm
Visit Length		0 seconds
Page Views		1
Referring URL		http://www.google.co...r of 7&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Search Engine		google.com
Search Words		j to the power of 7
Visit Entry Page		http://chickasawpick...esmell.blogspot.com/
Visit Exit Page		http://chickasawpick...esmell.blogspot.com/
Out Click
Time Zone		UTC-5:00
Visitor's Time		Dec 7 2009 11:45:11 am
Visit Number		64,990

And the return of the protectors of David Vitter...

Domain Name		wrfvi.com ? (Commercial)
IP Address		208.162.162.# (WILEY, REIN & FIELDING)
ISP		SAVVIS Communications Corporation
Location		Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : District of Columbia City : Washington Lat/Long : 38.9097, -77.0231 (Map)
Language		English (U.S.) en-us
Operating System		Microsoft WinXP
Browser		Internet Explorer 7.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Javascript		version 1.3
Monitor		Resolution : 1024 x 768 Color Depth : 32 bits
Time of Visit		Dec 7 2009 11:14:59 pm
Last Page View		Dec 7 2009 11:14:59 pm
Visit Length		0 seconds
Page Views		1
Referring URL		http://www.google.co...ausa wife&hl=en&sa=2
Search Engine		google.com
Search Words		jeff taylor ausa wife
Visit Entry Page		http://chickasawpick...y-in-palfrey_30.html
Visit Exit Page		http://chickasawpick...y-in-palfrey_30.html
Out Click
Time Zone		UTC-5:00
Visitor's Time		Dec 7 2009 11:14:59 am
Visit Number		64,985

What exactly would Wiley Rein want to know from this specific search? They seem to be concerned about the affairs and path of JeffreyA. Taylor. Hit the labels, and you'll see the connections run very deep indeed.