2016 election stimulates new interest in DC Madam case

Former DC Madam civil and criminal counselor Montgomery Blair Sibley has been doing some filings recently, all covered in the press, and he wants to release the subpoenaed Verizon phone records for reasons I won't go into based on confidentiality, a promise I have made to a source. The development comes at an interesting time and I cannot fault the man for doing what he's doing and even wish him well, I hope he's successful.

His claim that there are 815 names in the subpoenaed phone records is correct, however, I never noticed any major political names and have not gone back to them or Dan Moldea's searches of her phone records that Jeane herself entrusted to myself and others for the purposes of research for her case.

I would add that since 2008, I haven't had anyone request or tell me either telephonically, via email, or served through the postal service, to return any of those materials, not that I could if I tried since they've been so thoroughly disseminated as to render that impossible. That being stated, and I say this as a layman, I seriously doubt that anyone could even claim jurisdiction over me and them. In fact, I've published some of them on here, the raw information, but only specific names.

Here's the thing: Nearly all of the names we were able to dig deeper on are published online anyway. The Chief U.S. Courts judge, a fellow named Roberts, God help us, really just seems to hate Sibley along with the rest of the legal establishment in DC and won't let him release and publish (the most important aspect, I believe, that right) them, hoping, Sibley said, to affect the outcome of the political elections. Can he? Will he? Should he?

It's possible that the names are of people who rose since I last looked at them, I don't know, frankly, there were so many.

Where does that leave me? Yes, stuck in the middle, again, somewhere in Dante's limbo, on the outskirts of mortality.

Jeane never told me or Mr. Sibley to return that information, the files, the phone numbers, the scans of her phone bills, or anything at all. Neither has the Palfrey Estate in all of eight years. I believe their time is well up seeing that the phone records were probably released online at Jeane's bequest by Citizens for Legitimate Government, hence by Lori Price. It was never a great idea to put those phone bills online for the defense, but, I must add that the above parts of this paragraph are simply my conclusions and opinions, albeit very informed ones.

Are there more names of importance in the phone records? Why wouldn't they have been found already? I'm skeptical but might be induced to take another look, maybe, just maybe, if I cared enough to. It's mostly a closed door for me.

I have communicated with Mr. Sibley recently. That being said, no, I'm staying mum out of respect.

An open call for information regarding GOP pundit, lobbyist, and attorney Jack Burkman

WWW--I am looking for a very specific piece of information: what was the phone number of J.M. Burkman & Associates in 2006? I already know what the address is but have been unable to locate the number from that time. It could very well be correct, but I get the impression that Mr. Burkman has been going around making threats all over the blogosphere.

Just in case you don't recall, Burkman was very closely involved in the witch-hunt to take down former President Bill Clinton for lying about getting some since painting him with the corruption brush just wasn't going to work when everyone's having the same fun in that arena, what with many of the same fingers in the same pots. Ironically, Palfrey and I argued over Clinton's innocence in the realm of corruption--I never agreed with her or conceded to her on it. Oddly, she would finally end up with Monica Lewinski's lawyer who I don't believe did a very good job defending her.

Around June 16, 2006, the website Wonkette reported on Burkman's alleged attempts at offering to pay two lesbians to have sex with him at a gay pride parade in DC. The two ladies "outed" Mr. Burkman on one of their Myspace pages, even putting a scan of the business card he allegedly gave to them and a partial account of the whole night:

...afterward, we got a snazzy hotel room at the mayflower downtown. on the way over there, this really hot business man in a pinstriped suit walked past me, said hello, and doubled back. he asked me my name and introduced himself (jack burkman, government relations strategies), asked where i went to school, etc, gave me his card, and asked me to call him. i later texted him and never could get rid of him again. he thought he talked to me on the phone several times, but he never did. i always made kat or kristin be me. he told kristin about how he really enjoyed my outfit (TITS GALORE) and that i was beautiful, etc. by the end of the night (5 am or so), he was offering to pay for our room and give us a thousand dollars if two of us would fuck him. oh, jack burkman. his card is my DC souvenir.

Burkman has been a strong advocate for the Family Research Council, one of those wacky family values organizations and was founded by the televangelist James Dobson.

Less than a month later, Citizens for Legitimate Government (who are they?) was claiming that Burkman was in the phone records of the DC Madam. Now, both articles at Wonkette (and many other progressive sites) on these two incidents of what might have been solicitation are gone, taken down, possibly since 2008. Other sites have pulled their articles on Burkman and one or the other of these two alleged scenarios. Wonkette and several of these sites have refused to reply to my questions on this issue. But Palfrey all-but-confirmed it was real at the time, as she recounted to blogger Margie Burns just a couple days after CLG released the name:

“Ms. Burns… FYI, this and any calls to the Washington area were business, i.e. escort service related.

–Sincerely, Jeane Palfrey” ("Ms. Palfrey confirms that Mr. Burkman's business with her was escort service related, 07.13.2007)

I was pretty close to the story and had never heard of his number being in the phone records and neither have several others close to the Palfrey case. What gives? What is this? There isn't one article that resoundingly impeaches the contention that Burkman was in Palfrey's phone records and not one mainstream press outlet picked it up at the time. What do you think?

Burkman responded clumsily in the third person--as megalomaniacs do--and included a double-negative in his statement that's not exactly reassuring regarding his innocence. A more toned down 2008 version of the statement is still on his personal website:

“BURKMAN RESPONDS:

Web allegations are simply and completely false, driven by a group of left-wing people seeking to intimidate conservatives and independants [sic].

As my viewers and readers know, I usually do not respond to silliness on the internet. But in this case--given the national and international coverage--I feel I must. The recent allegations concerning sollicitation [sic] are false lies. They have been printed and reprinted by websites with a long and intense history of harrassing [sic] me and trying to stop my commentary.

None of the sites even so much as contacted me for comment. But I can assure you that they will not succeed. My family and I have been through this before. During impeachment in the 90's, every form of illegitimate pressure that could be brought to bear was brought to bear in an attempt to silence me. But they failed and seven years later, my commentary continues unabated and unphased [sic]. And it always will.

Thank you for watching and reading.
- Jack Burkman”

Yeah, he's a real martyr for freedom alright, a regular Patrick Henry. He sure never was a speech writer, and he can barely write at all. I could be wrong, but wasn't Henry famous for saying, "Show me your tits, I'll pay"? Maybe this whole Burkman story was overshadowed by the Vitter revelation, but if it's true, what gives? Surely, Larry Flynt would have released his name had his PI Dan Moldea found it, but then, that doesn't fit their criteria at the time: they were looking for hypocritical office holders and Burkman is a lobbyist and talking neck with close ties to the GOP and sundry corporations due to his line of business.

So: if you have any letterhead or copies of J.M. & Associates, LLC business cards, I'd love to see them. Any information related to the aforementioned issue is being sought, and I can only offer you my thanks, that's it. What an arrogant little man.

"Ms. Palfrey confirms that Mr. Burkman's business with her was escort service related, Margie Burns.com, 07.13.2007: http://www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2007/7/13/3090733.html

Porn industry wants a bailout

WWW--You gotta be kidding me. OK, I assume as everyone else does, that pornographers tend to be moral imbeciles with no sense of how corrupt and disgusting they really are, granted. But this is something: Larry Flynt and "Girls Gone Wild" owner Joe Francis want part of the bailout money. Will they get it? Get real.

I'd like to thank Larry Flynt for doing virtually nothing in assisting the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey. He didn't need to prove to me or anyone else that he's a greedy little creep who exploits women for their bodies, and in every way he can get away with. That he's scum is a given.

Francis is a little turd with tiny dick and no brains. Word has it that Larry once fucked a chicken--at least according to Al Goldstein, yet another pornographer, although he hit-the-skids ages ago around 2002. Compared to Larry Flynt, Al's a fucking aristocrat, a gentleman. At least he read Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave," and even understood it! Flynt? Francis? Forget it.

In the words of Al: "Eat a leper, fuck you," Larry Flynt.

"Porn industry seeks federal bailout," CNN, 01.07.2009:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/07/porn-industry-seeks-federal-bailout/

It's a sad and beautiful world: GOP's longest serving senator, Ted Stevens, indicted on 7 counts of making false statements to feds

Washington D.C.--One has to wonder why this took so long. Federal investigators searched Stevens' home exactly one year ago. Perhaps there were factors preventing the investigations to proceed?

Preserving their ability to filibuster--as opposed to past threats of ending the procedure--in the Senate was one obvious motive for a GOP that still controls the Justice Department via the Bush administration, but then there's protecting the president and his administration, that paramount goal.

But doing so is really about protecting the GOP from the fallout of another Watergate. Well, actually an ocean of them.

The GOP has a lot of practice protecting such formerly upstanding lawbreakers and perjurers such as Sen. David Vitter (La.), Randy "Top Gun" Cunningham, and even Mark Foley (the former GOP representative from Florida). The actual list is much longer, resembling a Republican cha-cha line, thankfully out of the halls of the Capitol building, forever. That they had never been there would be preferable, but we'll take them leaving. Stevens is just one in a long line of abjectly corrupt Republican politicians, and we can be assured there will be more, many more, in the future.

The key is taking them down earlier, catching them when they begin in their extralegal activities like cruising congressional pages, taking gifts, soliciting prostitutes for coveted government contracts through earmarks, and all the sundry forms of the kickback, the bribe, and the honey deal. And the feds have promised that Ted can come in on his own, they won't make him do the frog march.

What are friends for? This:

Prosecutors said Stevens received more than $250,000 in gifts and services from VECO Corp., a powerful oil services contractor, and its executives. From May 1999 to August 2007, prosecutors said, the 84-year-old senator concealed "his continuing receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of things of value from a private corporation."

The indictment unsealed Tuesday says the items included home improvements to his vacation home in Alaska, including a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing and electrical wiring, as well as a Viking gas grill, furniture and tools. He also was accused of failing to report swapping an old Ford for a new Land Rover to be driven by one of his children. ("Ted Stevens indicted, longest-serving GOP senator," AP, 06.29.2008)

Yet we've known this for about one year. But there might be more to the puzzle in other corrupt firms and contractors besides VECO Corp. who are close to the Republican senator and his son Ben.

During my general research for the defense of Deborah Jeane Palfrey (aka "The DC Madam"), an interesting name turned-up in the subpoenaed Verizon phones records we were working on way back in January. I'm certain others working on the "defense team" (as Palfrey referred to us) have copies of these records, and may have findings of their own.

Granted, the information was provided without any real context from Palfrey's then attorney, the inimitable Montgomery Blair Sibley. It's hard to comment on their veracity. I question Palfrey's own credibility and mental state at the time, though it might not affect the information in them--she and Sibley rarely seemed to know what she had on her hands. By all appearances, her final lawyer Preston Burton had no interest in such leads and went for a purely technical defense.

Again, in January of this year, I received a template file that had the information of who held a number found in the phone records, and when, while another was created by myself to hold the findings. We were given no real coherent instructions in our research except to confirm if the calls might be clients. Initially, we were told to "find big names" by Palfrey, and directly.

As in the case of a CD-ROM I had been sent by Sibley, the information provided to me was contradictory and confused. There was very little context given at all. Some names on the list were tantalizing, but many were false positives...or were they? It was never even conveyed to myself how the information had been organized, or what its original form was. One name was even a phony identity, taken from a Nigerian 419 scam. They didn't appear to have their shit together at all.

Currently, attorney Sibley has been claiming that he has somewhere between 815-855 names of more clients. This is factually untrue based on the false positives, but I understand from my own and the experiences of others that keeping track of paperwork and the details isn't exactly his forte. The names we found? There are a few of interest.

Of course, many of the names are dead-ends, escorts, "testers" who screened prospective escorts as to how "game" they were for sex, and the rest is a mystery that would require further investigation. Could be, maybe. But there are a lot of entities and personalities in there that do fit Sibley's description that clients are in there, it's just not anywhere near the number 800. I'm assuming the advocate knows full well that I and other possess these records. We'll leave it at that.

"What the hell does this have to do with Ted Stevens?" you ask? On line-11 of these apparently deeper Verizon records is ASRC Constructors Inc., also connected to Sen. Stevens and his lobbyist son Ben. The call is from February 5, 1999, at 5:46 PM EST, just a few months before the acts of accepting bribes Stevens is alleged to commit occurred. But the Verizon record claims the account was activated on October of 2007. Others might be able to verify this number, but perhaps we don't want to know. Welcome to the world of corporate disclosure.

The call itself might not have anything to do with Stevens, so why not rule it out? Our Republic doesn't want to have to keep relying on the likes of a Larry Flynt, a Wayne Madsen, or a Montgomery Blair Sibley.

All that aside: isn't Stevens more important than some little bribes-investigation? He's in a peculiar context with the high price of oil right now. For as long as anyone can remember, the Republicans have been crowing to get the oil-rigs into the Alaskan tundra. He's important, especially when considering the GOP's and the White House's recent Leninist chanting, over-and over again of: America needs to be drilling in Alaska's ANWAR for more oil because it's going to bring the price of gasoline down. Economists unconnected to Big oil and the GOP tend to suggest otherwise.

Stevens, the GOP, their masters the oil conglomerates, and the Native American-owned ASRC have been working hard over the years to use the minority company's federal status to nudge their way into ANWAR, as recently as 2005:

Barrow-based ASRC received exclusive subsurface rights in the Arctic refuge's coastal plain under a 1983 land trade. The deal relieved the company from the usual revenue-sharing rules that govern Native corporation resources.

The dispute threatened to erupt last month at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Fairbanks. Many delegates said they were surprised to learn that ASRC was the only corporation likely to earn big money from oil and gas development in the refuge. ...

The 7(i) settlement rules assumed land exchanges of equal value, Sealaska said. In the ANWR exchange, ASRC gave up land worth about $6 million and receiving subsurface rights at that time worth more than $395 million, according to a 1989 review by the Government Accounting Office.

The land deal was made in secret, without public review, and deliberately undercut one of the basic tenets of the land claims act, Sealaska said in response to ASRC. ("Disputes rise over sharing ANWAR's wealth," Anchorage Daily News, 11.28.2005)

Was Ted a senator from Alaska in 1983? Yes. Was a Republican in the White House at the time? Yes. Will Democratic leaders take this as far as it should go? Probably not, and pardons of Stevens and his son from the Bush White House in its last days won't surprise anyone.

Maybe there's something to the ASRC phone record, and maybe not. Numerous defense contractors are represented in the subpoenaed Verizon records, and many of them could be false positives. It could be one too. The calls--and other substances--were flying from 1993-2006 for Palfrey, and one could safely assume that there were a lot of wrong numbers and every other permutation of legitimate phone call in the phone records of Palfrey's Pamela Martin & Associates. But what is this list from Verizon? So far, nobody can (or will) tell me for reasons one can only describe as self-serving, forget the historical record.

Even Palfrey's former condo manager was making-the-rounds of the media on talk radio and television news magazine shortly after her self-inflicted demise.

Perhaps Sibley is going to come clean on the context of what was forwarded to myself and a co-researcher, and maybe not. Lately--when he's wearing pants--he's talking about a 150-page manuscript that Palfrey left behind, though it's likely to be a lot of self-serving crap by the deceased. I myself possess around 29-pages of an early-draft of it, and that's exactly what it is.

Others close to the case have confided to me that the 2,700 emails between Sibley and Palfrey (which would likely include myself in some of them) are likely to illustrate a sad and simple truth: that Palfrey was not in her right mind, and that she separated with Sibley believing she had received poor counsel. Sibley had to be officially removed from her case by court action. In missives sent directly to this writer, Palfrey herself referred to advocate Sibley as "crazy" and that he'd wasted a great deal of precious time with his legal tactic of multiple-filings and arcane legal points. That was Jeane's opinion, the defendant.

It's possible that Sibley is working on a book and film deal with the Marianne Strong agency, as it's known that they also have a manuscript by Palfrey in their possession. Or is it the same one? One would assume so, yet one could imagine another example of dueling lawsuits. Right now, Sibley's representing a party trying to lay claim to the Goldeneye diamond, making Sibley the Peter Lorre to his client's Fat Man. He's made some rather bald claims lately regarding the legacy of the late DC Madam:

“She left me 150 pages,” said former Palfrey attorney Blair Montgomery Sibley. “I am pulling that together with 2,700 e-mails that I have between Jeane and I to attempt a cogent narrative of the events that led up to her unfortunate demise.

“She also left me a substantial amount of recorded material that will supplement the written information,” Sibley told Yeas & Nays. “We are still in the process of transcribing all of that.

“Like any book, there is a story to tell that people are interested in,” Sibley said. “I am the sole processor of her story at this time, now that Jeane is dead. The story is going to be about her ordeal from October of 2006 until her death in May of 2008.” ("Yeas & Nays-Attorney: Palfrey Left Me 150 Pages of Book," The Examiner.com, 07.28.2008)

Poorly-put, that. What to expect from this? A garbled collection of tantalizing possibilities that aren't going to make anymore sense of what was a mess his client was. Palfrey was off-the-hook, and it was generally her way or the highway.

That's understandable for a defendant facing as much as six years (not the 55 reported, sentencing isn't literal, like contracts) in prison and the loss of all of her assets, and issues that are even more complicated than that. Jeane had been given some very good plea offers--one she conveyed in a June 2007 phone interview with myself. Some of us tried to save her, but she was doomed from-the-start.

It's possible that Palfrey made some very loud pronouncements to her counsel prior even to Sibley's representation that began around March of last year, and ended as early as middle-December. Sibley was gone after late-January of this year from her case. Yeah kids, it's a sad and a beautiful world, but that married couple with their cute kids at the supermarket and that attractive waitress make it bearable.

It's a sad and beautiful world. That it is. If only people could control themselves more often, it might be happier. Yes, there should be a law for that...oh wait, there is? If only Ted had behaved. If only Jeane had behaved. If only Blair could, but he needs the dough, and kilts fit him better in the crotch. Don't we all need to behave better? An indicted Republican senator, a dead hooker, and a fallen aristocrat lawyer--what's the common denominator? The sad truth is, greed, that mockery of life.

"Yeas & Nays-Attorney: Palfrey Left Me 150 Pages of Book," The Examiner.com, 07.28.2008: http://www.examiner.com/blogs-73-Yeas_and_Nays~y2008m7d28-Attorney-Palfrey-left-me-150-pages-of-book

"Ted Stevens indicted, longest-serving GOP senator," AP, 06.29.2008: http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20080729/488e95c0_3ca6_1552620080729744234029

"Disputes rise over sharing ANWAR's wealth," Anchorage Daily News, 11.28.2005: http://dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7242777p-7154791c.html

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter attempting to use campaign donations to pay for legal fees related to Palfrey case

Washington D.C./Metarie, Louisiana--Is it redundant to refer to the donors of Sen. Vitter's campaign as suckers? Never mind, the Advocate is reporting today that the senator from Louisiana has sent a letter to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) trying to recoup over $70,000 in legal fees he incurred, assessing and watching the Palfrey scandal through counsel.

This pleases myself--the editor of this site--to no end. The total amount is somewhere in the neighborhood of $137,000, a tidy sum for someone who never set-foot in a courtroom. Why just $70,000? Perhaps the senator doesn't want the public to know what all of the money was spent on, but much of it was probably expended on private investigators and legal research.

Vitter's present counsel, Jan Witold Baran--whom he's now incurring even more legal debts with--has made some striking admissions to the Advocate, but the message is coming from Vitter. Will anyone notice? The Advocate missed spelling-out who Baran is: one of the "top elections and campaign lawyers who was an "Executive Assistant" to the FEC, 1977-79, according to his own firm profile. He's an insider who even represented the RNC and the Bush Sr. campaign in 1988. (http://www.wileyrein.com/directory.cfm?attorney_id=399)

Vitter has paid $70,000 of the legal fees personally and is asking that the money be re-imbursed through the campaign funds, the letter says.

FEC officials could not be reached late Wednesday afternoon for comment. Through his spokesman, Vitter declined to comment on the letter. The latest FEC campaign contributions report for Vitter, filed March 31, shows he has $1.6 million in his campaign coffers.

Baran, in the letter, says Vitter had been monitoring the Palfrey case three months before the senator acknowledged what he called a serious sin in his past. A review of the Palfrey records shows Vitter’s number on the list five times between 1999 and 2001 when he was in the House. ("Vitter to seek help with fees," The Advocate, 07.03.2008)

Why should the campaign contributors have to pay for Vitter's continual lies and obfuscations? Baran conveying Vitter's acknowledgment that he was "monitoring" the case from as early as late-March makes it plain that the senator was well aware of his guilt, and moved heaven and earth to avoid responsibility.

But now, a woman is dead by her own hand, and for some perverse reason, he's still holding office, though not if Louisiana state Republicans can help it. Eight GOP incumbents in the Senate still appear to support the errant-genitals of Sen. Vitter and Larry Craig--and the rest of their bodies--when they co-sponsored yet another round in the feeble-attempt at a gay marriage amendment to the Constitution, banning it.

Will the FEC reimburse the senator for his legal expenses? It depends on how much of a liability he's become to the national GOP, how much control the party itself exerts over the bureaucracy, and whether Louisianans have any self-respect left. After Katrina, it's time to muster some.

Yet, it appears that some of them still do, particularly Nate Monroe of The Daily Reveille, and he's hardly alone in the Southern state. Monroe's observations on Vitter's proposal of another stab at a national ban on gay marriage and his behavior related to the Palfrey case are astute:

The self-righteous hubris that Vitter revealed during his scandal - that it happened a long time ago, that he was "sorry," that he allegedly apologized to God and that, finally, he will not resign because he is still the best man to save Louisiana from itself - is the same hubris that motivated him to cosponsor this ridiculous piece of legislation. And of course, this bill is coming at a time when Congress ought to be paying attention to more dire events. ("Senator Vitter is married to arrogance," The Daily Reveille, 07.03.2008)

Technically, he's married to Wendy...for now. It should go without saying that the FEC would vote "no" to Vitter's absurd request, particularly with the April 15th conviction of the deceased Deborah Jeane Palfrey. This means that Vitter committed at least five criminal acts of soliciting prostitutes, and that he did likewise in his own home state. There is a possibility that he violated federal white slave laws and the Traveling Act, since Palfrey's service crossed state lines in the D.C. region.

At-minimum, it would be a grotesque act of favoritism and injustice for him to be reimbursed even a penny. Taking responsibility means just that, and Vitter's just illustrating that he's never going to unless he's forced to by society, by the courts. It sounds familiar doesn't it? It sounds a lot like the Bush administration, but then, it should. We're talking about the national GOP here.

This story and the career of the senator should have ended when Vitter's name was found in Palfrey's escort service records on July 9th of last year by researcher Dan Moldea. But up is down and down is up when the Republicans control the bureaucracy in Washington. They're right: government doesn't work...when they're in power.

It's the hope of this writer that Sen. Vitter's private investigators and attorneys were paid very well indeed when they came to J-7, as they most assuredly did. Several high powered law firms visited this site during the period before Vitter's semi-admission of guilt in July of 2007, and afterwards. There's another thing he's wrong about: others in the phone records were retaining counsel, just as he did, and they certainly incurred legal expenses of several thousand dollars.

How do I know this? Because many of them came through this site, leaving a record of it on the third party site meter. It's all about David, naturally. The other Johns are their own concern, they don't even exist to Vitter--and cannot, if he's going to succeed in painting himself as some kind of martyr. Absurd, and he's failing.

Sen. Vitter's attempt at evading even more responsibility for his actions, 07.03.2008: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/22850554.html

The day after we learned Sen. David Vitter was a sinner, 07.10.2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070902030.html

"Senator Vitter is married to arrogance," The Daily Reveille, 07.03.2008: http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2008/07/03/Opinion/Senator.Vitter.Is.Married.To.Arrogance-3387766.shtml

There was no Murder in the Cathedral: On Tim Russert, Ruslana, and all the rest

The Parapolitical Mind (is there one?)--Why did the Kazakh supermodel fall to her death? No, this wasn't because of the bear market mini-crash (mini?!) this week. It's clear--even though there's no evidence whatsoever--that Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova was murdered by the United States Government. So was Tim Russert--or at least according to the predictable crop of banal paranoid-schizophrenics who are pronouncing it.

"But," they will say, "Her life was fine, she was successful and had so much to live for." Says you. Methinks thou dost protest too much. What's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the gander, but nobody's silly enough to claim this was a case of defenstration yet:

Witnesses described seeing her plunge from a ninth-floor balcony in the building on Saturday afternoon.

Local media, citing police sources, said there was no sign of a struggle inside her apartment and that Korshunova was believed to have leaped to her death.

A friend told The New York Post, however, that Korshunova had just returned from a modeling job in Paris and seemed "on top of the world."

"There were no signs," the unidentified friend was quoted as saying. "I don't see one reason why she would do that."("Kazakh Model in Suicide Plunge," Reuters UK, 06.29.2008)

These are the same kind of observations I kept getting around the time that Jeane Palfrey committed suicide--that's suicide, not murdered. But we're all credulous about something, and we've all made those wild leaps in our lives. God knows this writer has. It's just that some of us do it nearly every single time someone famous dies, or when it doesn't fit our personal--even national--mythologies. Anti-authoritarians, take-note: not everything is state-sponsored.

When overweight press lapdog Tim Russert died of a heart attack, the response was involuntary for some of us, just as it was with the Palfrey suicide and a gauntlet of others over the decades. If you follow the pseudo-logic of these paranoid-schizophrenic reactionaries who populate the internet, nearly everyone who ever died in human history was murdered by the United States Government, even before there was one.

Yes, there is a humorous side to all of this.

Why am I writing about this? The answer is simple: being involved in the Palfrey affair has brought me into contact with this kind of peculiar social animal--the sensationalist kook who claims to "have the facts," like Obama accuser Larry Sinclair. Self-deception is a mental game we've all played. These claimants never do have the "facts," just lies, half-truths, innuendo, high talk, and self-serving delusion. They aren't alone. Just look at the millions who still believe the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is legitimate. Why do they--we--do it? Why do we deceive ourselves? A look at the worst of us is in order.

Many of these individuals are washed-up hustlers like Larry Sinclair, or Alex Jones, and they see an opening in a scandal, especially when someone controversial and famous dies. Simply-put, they smell money. Others just wish to believe something that makes easier sense of a very complicated modern reality. Others simply cannot face a horrible personal reality. Some might be a combination of both, like Kathleen Willey, an accuser of the Clintons:

According to Willey, during a meeting in the private study off the Oval Office, Clinton embraced her, kissed her on the mouth and fondled her breast. She also claimed he placed her hand on his crotch.

Clinton denied ever assaulting Willey in the incident which allegedly took place five years before the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Willey never gave evidence to a Clinton's impeachment trial after some members of the House and Senate refused to allow her to testify.

On the same night the alleged assault took place in November 1993, Willey's husband Ed died from a single gunshot wound.

The Virginia lawyer was over £300,000 in debt and had embezzled money from a client.

He left a suicide note in which he apologised for running up the debts, and also a $100 lottery ticket for his wife.

Willey claims in her book that the autopsy on her husband failed to show it was suicide. ("Hillary Clinton faces sensational claims from another woman in Bill's past, The Daily Mail, 11.07.2007)

As you can tell, the widowed Mrs. Willey has a very real motive in constructing a fantasy narrative that obscures the obvious reasons behind the untimely suicide of her husband Edward, an inarguably fallen attorney (sound familiar?). It's possible she was involved in his road to ruin. Who knows? It's likely that Willey doesn't remember much of the run-up to her husband's suicide at all.

If we're honest with ourselves, we have to question her integrity and credibility, as well as her sanity. Did Clinton assault her? There's no solid evidence of this, only her claims, and we all know how well that holds-up in a courtroom. Actually, it sounds a lot like recovered memory, or more accurately, false memory syndrome.

Human memory works in some very funny ways. Our minds often protect themselves from threatening experiences and memories by editing or altering them. Nation states are no exception to this, being an amalgamation of millions of individuals. Our memory is not infallible, which is the reason why eyewitness testimony in courtrooms doesn't merit much credibility. And of course, we all tend to believe what we want to believe. These are the shortcomings of subjective experience.

The only way to prove a memory is through corroboration, as there is a human tendency to believe the impossible, and to miss what's right there in front of us. Memory is fallible, but there's more at work. We tend to move towards that which we wish to believe:

There is no use in multiplying examples. The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

When one looks at the all-prevailing schizophrenia of democratic societies, the lies that have to be told for vote-catching purposes, the silence about major issues, the distortions of the press, it is tempting to believe that in totalitarian countries there is less humbug, more facing of the facts. There, at least, the ruling groups are not dependent on popular favour and can utter the truth crudely and brutally. Goering could say ‘Guns before butter’, while his democratic opposite numbers had to wrap the same sentiment up in hundreds of hypocritical words. (George Orwell, "In Front of Your Nose," Tribune, 03.22.1946)

And so on. Yet, that aforementioned "source"who's only tangential to the Palfrey case is unlikely to change their opinion that the DC Madam was murdered. Never mind that there's no evidence of foul play: according to them, everything points to it, and all madams who go public who are found dead are murder victims. Some of this is because it's in their interest to hold this view. Just ask Larry Flynt.

The problem: there's no corroboration that Palfrey was murdered, and none is likely to be forthcoming. Not for Palfrey, not for Tim Russert, and not for Ruslana Korshunova. Just because we want some kind of notoriety or big payday doesn't mean it's true. This creature is everywhere on the internet, and lurking within all of us. It's the tendency towards individual and mass psychosis, often the prime-mover--if not a central cause--of social upheaval.

Don't believe it? Before the American Revolution, many colonists felt moved towards revolt against the Crown because they believed it was part of a Catholic conspiracy to topple their liberties. Pamphlets and handbills sold the story, just as the internet is today. As we now know, this "Papist conspiracy" was a phantasm, but it aided in mobilizing the mob towards revolt.

On the suicide of Ruslana Korshunova, Reuters UK, 06.29.2008: http://uk.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUKB65890320080629

"Hillary Clinton faces sensational claims from another woman in Bill's past, The Daily Mail, 11.07.2007: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492205/Hillary-Clinton-faces-sensational-claims-woman-Bills-past.html

A gaggle of disturbed people positing that Tim Russert was murdered (sans evidence): http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=126372

The False Memory Syndrome Foundation: http://www.fmsfonline.org/

George Orwell, "In Front of Your Nose," Tribune, 03.22.1946: http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose

Revised, 06.30.2008

Jackass of the Month: DC Madam's Former Condo Manager, Joe Strizack

Orlando, Florida--No, it's not Alex Jones, but the same kind of vulture. Proving that the parapolitical is a great way to get attention (and dollars), Joe Strizack is making-the-rounds of everyone with a working-microphone, lunch, and some cab money, telling us that Jeane Palfrey was "afraid for her life."

This is untrue, and it's unlikely that Strizack met her more than a few times in-person (I never did, our correspondence was via-e-mail, and a few phone calls). It's even doubtful that he talked to her personally.

He's doing what Larry Flynt, Alex Jones (whose show he spoke on), and the rest of the Internet and media are doing: milking a horrible tragedy for as much money and advertising as they can. Mr. Strizack is a liar and a blackguard. Never mind the wild leaps of logic it requires to believe there's a conspiracy in Jeane's death, and forget that the courts already did all of the real work in destroying her--"she was murdered." [Ed. 04.05.2010--Correction, it would be "She were murdered."]

I understand that thinking hurts, and that there is no "bottom" for how low human beings can sink, but there's more to this mad dash towards a conspiracy: most casual-onlookers cannot understand the story, and neither could the mainstream press. Most people cannot think about more than one concept at once. Nothing new here, move along.

Things will die down, and nobody will remember the vapid Strizack or the stupid remarks he has made--lies--about Jeane Palfrey and his very casual association with her. Now, if only we could all forget Larry Flynt, but that's impossible, since he's that untreatable form of the clap. One has to wonder if he's going to bother releasing those other names from her phone records that I trumped hydraulic-man on: John McCain, Dick Cheney, and Fred Thompson.

Conspiracism: what a cottage industry. So much for the truth, but since when did most of humanity ever care about that? You think Rob Capriccioso has jumped on the bandwagon of untruth and wild exaggeration? It's even money. Here's hoping that his blog at least got him laid.

Alex Jones, Kurt Nimmo, & Geraldo Rivera Try to Milk Dollars from Deceased DC Madam: The Ignorant Lying to the Ignorant

The J-7 mail archives --It's not-so-ironic that media exploiters like Larry Flynt and Geraldo Rivera are trying to stoke the fires of controversy by suggesting that Deborah Jeane Palfrey was murdered by some high level cabal. They're hardly alone. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry are acting as if they actually followed the story for longer than a week. But a conspiracy is a tempting scenario. The problem is, Jeane made a lot of contradictory statements to many different people about many things. Some were definite pronouncements, like the February 28th e-mail below this article.

I came into the picture around early-June of 2007 when Jeane wrote me a compliment about a May 6th article I wrote on her case. It was a casual analysis of her situation, and not necessarily very flattering towards her side of things. Interestingly, I write in the piece that "both sides are lying." Today, I see that Alex Jones's "Infowars" is speculating more wildly than I ever could, even with my own eyes and ears perpetually pointed towards the parapolitical (conspiracies). They aren't alone either, millions of very lonely and unimaginative people are following suit.

Literary curmudgeon Harlan Ellison once stated during the late-1990s that the Internet is the greatest purveyor of bad information ever conceived, and Kurt Nimmo's piece, "Geraldo Calls for Florida Gov[ernor] to Investigate Palfrey "Suicide" is a refreshing example of this "bad information." Besides its poor diction, it's clear that Nimmo is pulling just about everything out of his ass. Cobbling together a real hodge-podge of highly speculative connections and sources (namely citing individuals like Wayne Madsen as though they were credible), Nimmo goes as far as to create a peculiar irony within his meandering piece by citing the murder of AUSA Jonathan Luna in December of 2003 as an example of a questionable suicide--Palfrey began our correspondence with the strong-feeling that the genesis of her legal battle somehow began in the Luna case. I never saw the connection, but who knows? A barrage of FOIAs wouldn't necessarily clear any of this up either. Luna's murder remains unsolved.

The strange thing about Nimmo's shoddy article is that it doesn't match its headline, but that's something common in the mainstream media as well. Neither the parapolitical community or the mainstream media have had any real grasp on what this story might mean, but this writer has reached a few humble and reasonable conclusions: namely, that Jeane's Pamela Martin & Associates escort service was merely part of a very large infrastructure of the proffering of women, gifts, and money for the acquisition of coveted government contracts by lobbyists and contractors. Not conspiracy, but unspoken policy and tradition. Naturally, the FBI and other agencies are always watching these services, taking their notes, as in the case of the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. His own name was selectively-leaked.

Something happened that made Jeane a liability by the Fall of 2006, and it was possibly exposure by honest federal investigators, or any number of scenarios. The timing of her charges before the 2006 midterms always seemed pregnant with possibilities, especially considering the politicos and D.C. big-shots subsequently outed by her were all Republicans. It's simply an unknown exactly what initiated the investigation. The government's prosecution isn't telling, and neither are the original investigators. As we know, the one person who might clarify some of this is now gone, though I can attest to the fact that she didn't appear to know the whole picture either.

During my research for the defense (under two defense teams, no-less), Jeane finally dropped a very big name indeed: convicted Poway defense contractor, Brent Wilkes. She told myself and my co-researcher to dig-up as much data as we could on him and his co-conspirators, to summarize it, and find any connections that we could to her situation. Later work had us searching through subpoenaed Verizon phone records that went much deeper into who held the more impenetrable numbers and/or cells already posted on the Internet. Remarkably, a lot of it did seem to fit, and noting the Smoking Gun's early questions directed at her in the Fall of 2006, the connection appeared solid. It was as if the federal investigators had scripted the interview questions for Bill Bastone, editor of the site. Jeane frequently voiced her contempt for him, and at one point he was on the subpoena list.

Ken Silverstein's articles on "Hookergate" and Shirlington Limousine (used by Wilkes to ferry prostitutes to former GOP Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and others unknown) also seemed to corroborate Jeane's assertion that she had had telephone contact with Brent Wilkes on at least a few occasions. What she conveyed to us fit the facts, and even some of the time-line. But, every time I pushed her for proof, I got a wall of silence.

The Spitzer scandal was similar to Jeane's case in that it had all the same appearances of selective prosecution, but it gave her some very brief hope right before the trial. It was a hope that wasn't going to last:

Indeed, Spitzer was lucky, as only his career suffered sudden death. Debra Jeane Palfrey was not so lucky. Or was Jonathan Luna.

Luna, a Baltimore-based Assistant United States Attorney, apparently suffered the same fate as Palfrey, although his murder, also excused as a “suicide,” was far more grisly. At the time of his “suicide,” Luna was working under fired US attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio, who was investigating corruption charges against then-Republican Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich and his staff, the lot accused of engaging the services of Palfrey’s escorts. In addition to Ehrlich, Jack Abramoff, convicted of fraud in dealings with SunCruz Casinos, was under investigation at the time of Luna’s “suicide,” obviously a homicide.

It is said Luna stabbed himself 36 times with a penknife and subsequently drowned himself in a creek in Denver, Pennsylvania. ("Geraldo Calls for Florida Gov to Investigate Palfrey "Suicide,"' Infowars, 05.04.2008) http://www.infowars.com/?p=1914

It's obvious that Nimmo's unaware of the the possible connection between the Palfrey and Luna cases, though granted that there might be no connection whatsoever. It's known that the IRS office in Baltimore was part of the early-stages of the investigation into Palfrey at roughly the same time of the events that led-up to the murder of Jonathan Luna.

Palfrey told this writer on several occasions that she strongly suspected her problems came out of a plea deal by former convicted Baltimore Police Commissioner Ed Norris, and that it was somehow mixed-up with the Luna murder. She called it her "cesspool of muck" theory. That's right, even the subject herself was seeing conspiracies everywhere--then just as abruptly as they came along, drop them. We never found evidence of a tangible connection to the Luna case, and Norris didn't appear to be offering any corroboration. Though Norris was interviewed extensively by Rawstory, these interviews have failed to surface. It's the opinion of this writer that they weren't fruitful, though Palfrey stated that they had conducted twelve hours of them. The notion of a connection to the Luna case was dropped sometime after August of 2007 by Palfrey in her missives to myself, and didn't come up much after that, if at all. By December, the talk was of Brent Wilkes. By March, it was of John McCain, Dick Cheney, and even Fred Thompson, the names we can presume Larry Flynt is sitting-on right now. With Thompson, it's a foregone conclusion, and the proof will have to be rock-solid.

Additionally, it's the opinion of this author that Wayne Madsen has no Pentagon or CIA sources, or any sources within the government whatsoever in the "Cheney scoop"--it was likely Deborah Jeane Palfrey. As you can imagine, it's a real labyrinth. The Sphinx-like lady left quite a mess behind and took many secrets with her...or did she? Mr. Nimmo and Geraldo--like the graverobbers that they are--are really just grandstanding along with the other ghouls out there, speculating wildly about something they know nothing whatsoever about. Jeane forwarded this to me on March 17th of this year on Geraldo's credibility. She really nails it:

Bil… FYI – the Coast to Coast Radio interview went very well. I was on-air for about an hour and a half, with commercial breaks interspersed during the time, of course. However, I walked off the Geraldo set. I was sitting in the chair, “miked” with earpiece in-place, when I decided that I wasn’t going to participate in the circus Geraldo was making out of the entire Spitzer ordeal. The first guest, the ex-boyfriend of Spitzer’s escort was repeatedly called a pimp by Geraldo and she constantly was referred as a whore. When I heard that Heidi Fleiss was to follow the boyfriend, I “got” where Geraldo was going. In true primadonna style, I announced that I had no intention of participating in “something like this”, ripped the mike from my lapel – grabbed my purse and exited the building. -Jeane

And so, the lady speaks, once again, and her exploiters continue to attempt squeezing dollars out of her. If you believe Geraldo Rivera or Larry Flynt are anything but exploitative scum, I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in buying. She's going to keep accusing the hypocritical for a very long time, despite her death. Alex Jones needs to exert some quality-control on his site, but he's hardly alone. Imagine how poor a job they and the mainstream media are all doing on all the other stories. It makes you think.

Why the Suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey Was Not Unexpected

J-7/Tarpon Springs, Florida--I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of the deceased Ms. Palfrey. This writer never met Jeane--as she liked to be called by friends--and I only spoke with her a few times telephonically--our correspondence occurred through the Internet. That doesn't make this any easier to write.

Jeane claimed--she claimed a lot of things, most-of-which were accurate--that James Grady, author of "Three Days of the Condor" told her (paraphrased), "They've handed you a gun to blow their heads off with." He wasn't wrong, and this story opened a door into things that most of us assumed were going on in Washington D.C. It confirmed our suspicions. Expect it to keep delivering.

What's disturbing is what Jeane told myself and others on the defense team: that she had had contact with Brent Wilkes, the convicted Poway defense contractor who bribed GOP Rep. Randall Cunningham, and likely many-many other congressmen, primarily Republican ones.

Predictably, the comment boards are already flowing with a lot of ignorant speculation that Jeane was somehow "murdered" by a "conspiracy." Larry Flynt has told this to Fox News, but what do expect from Larry Flynt? This is not only disrespectful to the memory of a human being who felt compelled to kill herself by hanging, it's cracked and has no basis in reality whatsoever. It's all about patriarchy-run-amok. There were other names that Jeane told me. Ironically, she had conveyed them to Wayne Madsen very early-on in this story. One of them is Vice President Richard Cheney, though Jeane claimed that it was during the late-1990s when he was CEO of Halliburton. Whenever I asked if she could prove this and other things, I got silence. Take from that what you will.

Here's why: being a researcher on her defense team gave me an inside-view of things. Just weeks before the trial, Jeane sent this e-mail out to Jason Leopold--formerly of Talkout, whose editors forced him from covering the story this year--and forwarded it to the rest of us on the legal defense team. It contains an entire exchange in it for context. From February 28th, 2008 (paragraph-breaks added):

Jason… let’s put it like this, the bastards aren’t going to take me alive. Of course, anytime that you want to do an interview – I will make myself available. However, I doubt that I will be doing any interviews once I am in D.C., for the trial. –Best, Jeane

-----Original Message-----
From: jasonleopold@hotmail.com [mailto:jasonleopold@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:40 AM
To: jeanepalfrey@sprynet.com; 'Justice League'
Cc: myboigie@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: "D.C. Madam trial scheduled for April 7th" (Jeane Palfrey)...

Jeane

I have no doubt that you will prevail. Your fighting spirit is infectious. I am in the process of setting up my own shop. I will actually be in DC for your trial and would love to get you on camera theb for the new nesit if possible.

Best

Jason

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-----Original Message-----

From: "Jeane Palfrey"

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:25:30

To:"'Justice League'"

Cc:,

Subject: RE: "D.C. Madam trial scheduled for April 7th" (Jeane Palfrey)...

Bil… thanks for the kinds words. If USA’s can’t file racketeering charges, then who can? More specifically, who filed them in my case? -Jeane

-----Original Message-----

From: Justice League [mailto:spbiloxi00@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:11 AM

To: jeanepalfrey@sprynet.com

Cc: jason leopold

Subject: Re: "D.C. Madam trial scheduled for April 7th" (Jeane Palfrey)...

Good Morning Jeane:

Thanks for your update and concerns in your case. I am copying Jason. I will post your email on my blog and on the Newsinkling.org. Jason and I know that you are innocent. Just remember. This is a battle of a much corrupted justice system. And we are with you on the long haul no matter what happen. Keep in mind that your case is in the hands of 12 jurors. You are innocent until proven guilty.

Also, I wanted to bring this to you and Jason. I was watching a webcast of the House Judiciary Committee hearing that was held on Tuesday about the matter of the procedures of a Special Prosecutor. There were two panels of attorneys that were experinced attorneys that dealt with a Special Prosecutor or was a Special Prosecutor or Independent counsel. I watched carefully to the last person to testify in the second panel: USA and Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. One the committee asked this question to Fitzgerald that was interesting:


Cannon: Distinction between special counsel and normal prosecutor.

Patrick Fitzgerald: One common misunderstanding is that we didn't follow DOJ guidelines. I was bound by those guidelines. Many of the procedures I was the decision maker. When you prosecute as USA, you have to follow the guidelines. In an ordinary case, USA has an awful lot of power. In many cases, the volume of our cases, we can bring charges that will imprison people with out possibility of parole. No wiretap without DOJ, no immunity for witnesses, no govt appeal or attorney or member of the media. USAs can't file racketeering charges.

I found the last part of Fitzgerald's statement about racketeering charges interesting. And I appreciate him explaining what the role of as an USA. His statement is a very clear indication on why certain USAs were fired, why certain USAs were selected as interims, and what role within the WH and AG played in allowing certain charges to stick on certain individuals for political and personal means, and finally the handpicking of certain judges in certain cases. It would be interesting on how much power [especially USA Taylor] the selected USA interims with the DOJ by the WH. Here is the link of the webcast. Fitzgerald's testimony is about 15 minutes toward the end: 2:20.52

http://judiciary.edgeboss.net/real/judiciary/commercial/comm022608.smi

Bil

On 2/28/08, Jeane Palfrey > wrote:

My and defense counsel's various efforts the past 17 months to resolve the charges levied against me by the Department of Justice have been unsuccessful. Therefore, a full-jury trial is scheduled to take place on April 7th, in Federal District Court, in Washington, D.C.

I intend to defend myself vigorously against the charges of racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy. I will call witnesses to testify on my behalf about the legal, sexual nature of my former business – Pamela Martin & Associates. These witnesses likely will be culled from the existing research – conducted over the past 8 months - by a variety of press/media, bloggers and interested third parties.

It should be noted ALL charges are predicated upon the seldom utilized Travel Act, which allows the Government to claim jurisdiction for ANY crime – including misdemeanor offenses such as prostitution – when state lines are crossed. In the course of regular business operation in the Washington, D.C. area, state lines are crossed routinely by any number of businesses, including escort services. In fact, all one has to do is quite literally cross the street in hundreds, if not thousands of locations in the vicinity to cross a state line.

The Travel Act is important here because – unlike the state misdemeanor crime of prostitution – the Travel Act can be used to satisfy the requirement of an SUA (specified unlawful activity), which must be in place in order for the Government, not only to claim jurisdiction, but to be able to charge racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy. Federal law recognizes dozens of SUAs. Normally, such activities involve murder, treason, rape, kidnapping, drug trafficking, white slavery, extortion, embezzlement, etc and subsequently are utilized to support broader crimes like racketeering and conspiracy.

Perhaps, it also should be stated (and clarified) the racketeering charge is based in part upon the belief my previous business – to this day - is an ongoing criminal enterprise. Pamela Martin & Associates ceased to exist the day phone service was disconnected by me, in August of 2006. Any/all affiliated parties went their separate ways, at this time. The money laundering charge has been built upon the fact that payment transaction was done through the U.S. Mail.

Since I did not live in the Washington, D.C. area, during the 13 year period, PM&A was a viable concern – there realistically was no other logistical way for the women in my employ to send agency revenue onto me. Lastly, conspiracy – from what I have been able to ascertain – ostensibly occurs when two minds agree to commit a crime. Strangely, a person also can conspire with himself/herself, without the inclusion of a second individual.

Without doubt, I am in the fight of my life.Unfortunately, the Government will not capitulate, nor will I in this extremely bizarre case; one,where no person other than myself–including all former clients and escorts-is being charged with any crime here. Technically the Government has been successful in making the charges against me work on paper.

As a result, I have no choice- nor have I ever had any alternative - but to fight on and clear my name via the facts of the case, particularly since - if convicted, federal sentencing guidelines allow for a maximum sentence of 55 years imprisonment. Realistically, it has been calculated I would receive 8 to 10 to 15 years. Nonetheless for me at age 51, such a harsh penalty would be tantamount to a virtual life sentence – stripping me of some of the most productive years remaining in my life.

Jeane Palfrey

There's an image I have of Blanche Palfrey finding her daughter's body, hanging in the shed outside of her residential trailer. It's an image that should stick in the minds of all the "Johns," the privileged ones, forever. This is the real face of our elected (and appointed) representatives, and Republican Senator David Vitter is hardly alone in all of this. It's also the face of privileged businessmen, most of them whom would be nothing without a prostitute-facilitated government handout. Just ask Brent Wilkes. This is the face of lawlessness, a profoundly sexist patriarchy...it is the face of a homegrown American Fascism that so closely resembles a 19th century mining town.

I once told Jeane that she resembled the femme fatale movie star Joan Bennett (of Fritz Lang's "Scarlet Street"). Her response made sense: she she seemed to convey that she was both flattered and taken off-guard. It's horrible to see how accurate the statement was. This political and economic system uses women like Deborah Jeane Palfrey and her former escorts to facilitate government contracts. 

When things get uncovered, the press acts as the gatekeepers that they are (including people like David Corn), and they throw them away through prosecution. Jeane, I hardly knew you, but you didn't deserve this ending. I have to wonder what the dirty political prosecutors told you about sentencing, and whether it contributed to your decision to kill yourself. Your story will be told, and what I've learned in all of this will become public. This I vow.

The Pentagon Visits J-7 for the First Time!

Sitemeter (to the left, natch)--This is pretty exciting, but I'm wondering if anyone out there can hum along with me and make a Pentacle's hub-shaped structure levitate (love you Abbie, RIP)? Surely, the Pentagon is that infernal machine, that "demon engine" of Empire, and therefore Satanic.

J-7 enjoins all whistle-blowers with the federal bureaucracy to come forward if you've witnessed any illegal activities by your superiors.

This site is part of the real civilian press. Your identities will be safe and kept confidential. Any information regarding the "Hookergate" scandal is welcome as well. Pentagon fellas (not "Fellahin"): get me a doughnut, a Zagnut, and a coffee while you're out, OK? And let SAIC get the bill on it, they owe us some change.

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Larry Flynt, AP, and the meaning of "several"

AP Universe, domain of the flunky careerist--I've written it several times before, but it's rare that the name of the author of a wire piece ever gets named here...unless they lie, distort, or just act too-credulous (a problem with most mainstream journalists). OK, we all know that Larry Flynt posted a bounty of $1 million USD for any solid-leads that expose hypocritical national politicians, mostly in the GOP. But Larry isn't stopping there, and he doesn't seem to care if any of the guilty are Democrat or Republican, which speaks well for him. [Ed., 09.13.2008-Except that he was and is still Larry Flynt.]

We've got 20-some investigations that all look good," Flynt said during a news conference at his Beverly Hills office."We have got some high-ranking Republican and Democratic members of the Senate and the House," he told reporters. "If I get just a couple of those phonies out of there, maybe it will be a step forward."Flynt provided no names or details about the investigations. His comments conflicted with a press release issued by the magazine that put the number of investigations at "several." (AP, 07.12.2007)

The name! The name! One Michael R. Blood[money]. It's hard to say how he was trying to spin this one. Most dictionaries cite "several" as meaning "three or more, but not many." So, is he saying the Flynt cited fewer-or-greater numbers of good leads? Is 20 several? I would say yes. One can assume that Blood was told by an editor to insert that particular angle into the story. Why? We can only speculate, but AP's inviting it.

It's just a strange article with a weird subtext--that Larry Flynt cannot be trusted on this, even though he's been right on this before, back in 1998. What they're saying is that Larry Flynt is contradicting himself. Why? We can guess why, but meditate on this: who does it serve? Is it several?

AP spoke earlier this week with Jeane Palfrey's civil attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley and Flynt's primary investigator, Dan Moldea:

Sibley confirmed that author Dan Moldea, who is writing a book with Palfrey, discovered Vitter's number in Palfrey's phone records, which she has publicly released. In an interview Tuesday, Moldea said he called Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, for whom Moldea has done consulting work. Moldea said a Hustler editor called Vitter's office late Monday afternoon. Moldea was the lead investigator on Flynt's probe in 1998-99 of lawmakers who were investigating President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. They included Rep. Robert Livingston, a Louisiana Republican, who stepped aside days before he was expected to become House speaker replacing Newt Gingrich. Livingston, whose House seat was later filled by Vitter, revealed that he, too, had an extramarital affair. (AP, 07.10.2007)

So what gives AP? I've caught you reporting rumors as fact before, such as the case of AG Gonzales's Law School Reunion where you claimed most of the alumni gathered for a group photo didn't see law school students dressed as Guantanamo inmates.

Insofar as the fact that Hustler is a porn magazine, they have a good batting-average--several--in downing corrupt politicians. Perhaps even better than you, AP. They've nailed several people who were hypocritical and corrupt before, and they're now poised to do it again-and-again. For some reason, you don't appear to like this fact on several-points.

The passage that stated "comments conflicted" is a journalist's weapon, just like "refused to comment." They love the latter the most, it implies a source is hiding something...whether they are-or-not. Journalistic objectivity? Don't be silly, editors nullify that every day. I've had a journalist tell me, "Sometimes a journalism degree comes-in-handy." Cheers go to those journalists who don't care anymore and run the truth (sometimes hidden within a news release) anyway. Without them, I and several others, wouldn't have much to analyze.

AP-AP-AP: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/11/america/NA-GEN-US-Senator-DC-Madam.php

Michael R. Blood doing career gymnastics?:http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/12/ap3907393.html

[Ed., 09.13.2008-They're dead, they're all messed-up. Al Goldestein claims that Flynt used to brag about having-sex with a chicken, something I told Palfrey once. Maybe, it wouldn't surprise me. Moldea's reputation precedes him too.]