The Palin emails are why Sarah resigned as Governor of Alaska...

WWW--The fun has only just begun. She does NOT want to run for president or any elected office with this shit in her past. Just sayin'. Maybe some of them will show she did in fact blow Ted Stevens...

http://palinemail.crivellawest.net/

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.

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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.

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

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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.

Why Ted Stevens won't be returning to the United States Senate anytime soon

Anchorage, Alaska--Perhaps Seward was wrong, but the people of Alaska have essentially spoken, and even through a jury last year: a majority of Alaskans don't want Ted Stevens to represent them on the national level anymore, and this goes beyond the narrow election results. But the will of the people aside, Stevens doesn't have many future options since former Anchorage mayor and Democrat Mark Begich legally won the election and isn't going to resign from the Senate.

There's no reason for Begich to resign. He won legally regardless.

The truth of the matter is, Ted Stevens was a guilty public servant who was over-zealously prosecuted by a Department of Justice under the control of the Republican Party via the Bush II administration. On time and on schedule, the GOP are calling for special elections and claiming incorrectly that Stevens has been cleared, but it's not going to float or catch-on with a public rightly concerned and fixated on an economy that was wrecked by the same people in many cases.

Far be it from the right to want a straw to hold onto and the ability to paint themselves as victims. The biggest problem is that this was all self-inflicted and that it took a non-partisan administration to fix the mess left behind in the Stevens case. The American Enterprise Institute had similar sentiments to say this week, and it's telling about the right's mindset of victimhood and entitlement.

...Republicans would be furious if Stevens had been prosecuted by a Democratic administration. But, inconveniently, he was prosecuted by a Republican administration. And it was a Democratic Attorney General who handsomely admitted error and dropped the case. Eric Holder may be making some decisions on political grounds, like his decision to reject the advice of the Office of Legal Counsel that the D.C. congressional voting bill is unconstitutional and accept instead the advice of the solicitor general's office that it would be defensible in court, a much lower standard. And we can criticize Holder for his conduct in connection with the Marc Rich and other Clinton pardons. But we can't say that he's a complete political hack. ... ("Former Senator Ted Stevens Deserves Praise From Alaskans, American Enterprise Institute, 04.02.2009)

Correct, not a "complete political hack" like an Alberto Gonzales. And yes, there are huge parades going on this week in Alaska celebrating all of this. Didn't you notice them? Me either. And besides, Washington D.C. is predominantly African-American, and they don't tend to vote Republican...not that that has anything to do with Ted Stevens and the DOJ (DOH!), the AEI decided to drag them into it for reasons known only to themselves (since it doesn't make any sense).

No, the AEI really makes it clear that they want a fight, but cannot mount one for obvious reasons.

Additionally, this week's statements by the DOJ have not once mentioned anywhere that former Senator Stevens was cleared of any wrong-doing in the matter of bribery and making false statements to federal agents, but that the charges have been dropped. And once again, it should be reiterated that sitting Senator Mark Begich isn't going to resign. Can Stevens sue? Unlikely, and he doesn't want anyone looking into the things that he was legitimately convicted of, which are numbered in the several, and there could be more.

The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog states:

Nobody seems overly thrilled with the outcome, least of all Stevens’s attorney, Williams & Connolly’s Brendan Sullivan. “This jury verdict was obtained unlawfully,” read the statement penned by W&C. “The misconduct of government prosecutors, and one or more FBI agents, was stunning.” The statement went on to decry the “corrupt” conduct of attorneys and the FBI in the case, though it said Holder and the new prosecution team, along with Emmett Sullivan, the trial judge, were “heroes” for bringing the information to light. ("Can Ted Stevens Sue the Government...And Win?," WSJ Law Blog, 04.02.2009)

Stevens also has some curious defenders in the Senate, such as the questionable Daniel Inoye (D-Hawaii) who has been tangentially connected to the Randy Cunningham/Brent Wilkes bribery scandal and straw men like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ("[H]e's already been punished enough."). Inouye has a bad habit of publicly defending his corrupt peers in Congress, but a wolf knows a wolf and the public knows it at the moment. One need only look at the approval ratings of Congress, as they haven't gone much higher since the Bush II administration left office.

The Obama administration's DOJ has made a good decision in many respects here, and it will tend to undercut most calls of partisanship when such former Bush II luminaries as Karl Rove take the stand this spring. This writer's take is that there will be many more following Mr. Rove into court, some being sent off to be housed in a federal prison.

From Dermot Cole's Oped at The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner's blog:

...But the Republican party and Gov. Sarah Palin are going to have to accept that Begich was elected to a six-year term. He's not going to resign.

The "corrupt Department of Justice" is the problem, according to Randy Ruedrich, the state GOP chair.

But if the Republican Party and Palin push the call for Begich to resign, it will naturally lead to renewed debate about aspects of the Stevens investigation that were not contradicted by the flip-flops in Bill Allen's story and the evidence withheld from Stevens' lawyers. ... ("Begich is not going to resign," Newsminer.com, 04.02.2009)

That's about where it's going to rest, contrary to the cynical flip-flopping of the inimitable Governor Sarah Palin and the rest of the GOP inside and outside of Alaska who are now calling for special elections. It's not going to work when a Republican administration overzealously and incompetently attempted to prosecute a guilty man, then had the charges dropped by a new Democratic one. Stevens should feel lucky indeed.

Other defendants from the same period are either dead (by their own hand in the case of the DC Madam), desperately working to make a deal, divested of everything they own, and/or are currently sitting in a federal prison. No April Fool's there. Ted Stevens is just as guilty today as he was before April 1, 2009, but the last administration's prosecutors simply made so much of a mess of it that it's not worth pursuing, and there's every reason to do so to serve a greater good that has little to do with the former defendant.

Stevens's lawyer is mistaken that his client has been "cleared." He has not. Lockstep Republicans are echoing the same, and all of them are being intellectually dishonest. Nothing new there, move along. Letting Stevens go was an easy decision from every angle, there are bigger fish to fry and they're going to be entering the docket soon. Some of them will be prominent career Republicans, while others will be right-leaning criminal CEOs. The Obama administration's dismissal of the conviction will be their political firewall.

Now, it's time for the OLC to look very seriously and assiduously into the prosectutions of Mississippi attorney Paul Minor and former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman for what were likely political ends by the Bush II administration and elements within the RNC. While they're at it, they might want to look into prosecutorial misconduct in the trial of the DC Madam. It's there, just ask Bill Bastone of the Smoking Gun some time, it'll get a rise out of him. Let the rule of law be served.

"Former Senator Ted Stevens Deserves Praise From Alaskans, American Enterprise Institute, 04.02.2009: http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.29651/pub_detail.asp

"Can Ted Stevens Sue the Government...And Win?," WSJ Law Blog, 04.02.2009: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/04/02/can-ted-stevens-sue-the-government-and-win/

"Begich is not going to resign," Daily News-Miner blog, 04.02.2009: http://newsminer.com/weblogs/dermot-cole/2009/apr/02/begich-is-not-going-to-resign/

Accused Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich loses Homeland Security Clearance--what other accused politicians have?

Washington D.C.--There's no indication that former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens lost his security clearance during the legal proceedings in his own case, so why the move on Blagojevich's? To hurt him, to make him appear "bad," to assassinate his character. Yes, yes, one was a senator, the other a governor--except that Stevens was under investigation for a very long time as Blagojevich has been (years), and there was every indication that he was guilty, just like the Governor of Illinois.

Great, they have a lot in common...except in how they're being treated. At least Ted Stevens is going to have a hard time practicing law in Alaska, but does it matter? He's in his eighties. Stevens got the kid-glove treatment for far longer. Yes, there have been "ongoing investigations" into Blagojevich for years, which is not simply odd but smells of someone gunning for someone.

On Stevens's last day in the Senate, he was given a standing ovation. It wasn't reassuring that anything was about to change in Congress anytime soon. This is an individual--not a man--who was convicted of seven felonies by a jury of his peers. You read that right if you didn't somehow know it already: seven felony convictions. Stevens was also on committees and subcommittees that dealt directly with the DHS.

There's no indication from the record that he was ever stripped of any of his security clearances at any point until it was clear he was convicted and leaving office.

That's not the case with Blagojevich, and yet, the Bush II administration must be behind some of it--they still have sixteen days left in office, not the Obama team. Surely, they requested it--someone did--and it's safe to assume that it was for political reasons that cross party lines into the realms of class loyalty and preserving a rotten barrel. By all appearances, Ted Stevens retained his DHS security clearance (and his general security clearance as a sitting representative) until he was indicted in July 2008. Blagojevich hasn't even been indicted yet, but the calls to move quickly in unseating him stand in stark contrast with the treatment of other politicians accused of criminal behavior.

That's a matter of procedure at that point, but it should have been stripped from Stevens much earlier than it was, but Republicans can do anything they want.

Somehow, a man with seven felony convictions deserves a standing ovation before the Senate of the United States, while a standing governor of Illinois deserves no presumption of innocence until proven guilty, including the removal of said clearance, and so on. If that's not a contemptible attitude for due process to serve political ends, then nothing is. Republican senators did their best to block stripping Stevens from holding leadership roles on committees for exactly one year after the FBI raided his home. His indictment forced their hand.

Governor Blagojevich hasn't even technically been indicted yet and U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald is asking for "more time" to shore-up one. Curious, that--all of it. Perhaps we'll all be singing "The Wreck of the Patrick Fitzgerald" before long.

Revised 01.04.2008

Don't get your hopes up too high: Ted Stevens loses his seat in Alaskan recount, while Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales await inevitable pardons

“Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat.” --Bertolt Brecht, "The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui" ("Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui," 1941)

Washington D.C.--To be sure, this is a time to breathe a little easier, until reality sets-in. Let's be honest with ourselves and each other and acknowledge that neither Congress, President-elect Obama, nor the Supreme Court are going to do anything to prevent the Bush II administration from leaving office scot-free. Why would they want to when the Bush administration and Vice President Cheney expanded the powers of the executive branch in ways that any American politician would slaver and drool over?

Journalists can write hundreds of exposes, we can have as many smoking guns as you want, and Congress especially, will do nothing of any substance before January 20th, 2009. Nothing that gets results, that is. Nothing succeeds like failure, especially when both major parties have no real commitment to democracy beyond the fact that it gets them elected. If only it were otherwise. What's sad is that these sell-outs, these corrupt scum who are going to take us over the cliff into the abyss understand better than the public that the public is the solution to all of this.

Small wonder that they hate the public so much--who would respect anyone who does nothing in the face of such obvious and open corruption? Look at Cheney: does it appear that he cares what the public ever thought about anything-at-all? What self-respecting citizenry would tolerate this? Americans, and it's shameful. But wait, it's not as if events aren't going to shift things radically, they are and they will continue to.

Pardons are going to come into question when the Bush II cha-cha line gets going in December and January. Luckily, he's used-up a few and there are limits to how many he can hand-out. Will he give one to Stevens? Doubtful, he's not useful to anyone in the GOP now, and he's just turned 85. Stevens almost became the first American senator to be elected with a felony on his record, congratulations Alaska, you can secede. He's over, it's done, and he probably only had so much of an insider's view into the Bush II administration. Obama may not have the will to clean-up this constitutional crisis, but Pardon me, Jerry!

There are no messiahs, only this life and a lot of people avoiding responsibility for the mess we're in. It's time that we all accepted that responsibilty and stop looking to someone else to shoulder it. There is such a thing as collective-guilt, just ask the Germans some time--while they and the rest of the developed world are busy blaming us entirely for the economic crisis. Were we paying attention to our political class and pushed them hard to behave, we wouldn't be in this mess. It takes two to tango.

It took a greedy, apathetic, and jaded electorate to birth the presidency of George W. Bush. We tolerated it, and we tolerated the inaction of the other two branches of government. We still are. At least nature and the laws of physics are going to correct all of us. The soil is still very fertile for another George W. Bush and all the other kinds of scoundrel that have inhabited the highest offices in the land. We're fighting learning much from the last eight years, but events are going to correct most of this.

Just because the GOP is on the ropes doesn't mean the same problems aren't out there. They're going to bide their time when the American public loses its mind again and swings towards more self-destruction. Life's a bitch, brothers and sisters, and she's in heat again. The system just got a new face, a new mask--a brown one. The maggots, the rot, and the offal are still there behind the new facade.

[Ed., 11.19.2008--The AP is reporting that Stevens has stated he will not ask President Bush for a pardon. I think he knows he wouldn't get one.]

Songs from the Site Meter: Severna, Maryland...who are you?

Site Meter--Throughout the whole Palfrey affair, they were there. Who? Someone hitting this site from Severna, Maryland, over-and-over again. This has gone on for over one year.

Any guesses? One guess of mine is that it's the indefatigable Montgomery Blair Sibley, currently writing his account of his own extensive contact with the Palfrey case.

There's also the possibility that it's someone from Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe, one of the largest law firms in the world, a major government contractor...like most of the over 800 names found in the subpoenaed Verizon phone records of the late Jeane Palfrey. Like who?

As a matter of fact, kids, like ASRC Constructors Inc., connected to Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, now on trial for corruption charges, the subject that was searched on google by the visitor below. That's why it's probably Sibely, but could be other interested parties close to the Palfrey scandal. An added-note to this theme: I found other minority-owned contractors in the research we did for Ms. Palfrey, a pattern of it, and more, much more.

Current Palfrey Estate attorney Preston Burton is a partner in the firm, meaning he's virtually a co-owner, if not entirely so. But when is that ever enough? Some sources say that Mr. Burton wants to be appointed as a federal judge in the near future. Now, this wouldn't have affected his demeanor during the legal proceedings and trial of the late Ms. Palfrey, would it? I don't know, you tell me. Then, there's the fact that a number of Orrick's behind-the-scenes legal maneuvering does nothing less than to protect former clients of the deceased DC Madam. Why is that? Ah, but Mr. Burton's not very forthcoming or talkative. My own hunch is that that's a wise move on his part.

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An Open Letter to GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin

Gee-Oh-P--It appears that you had no problem--or is it idea?--that your daughter was having premarital-sex, so I have to ask you this: did you sign a letter-of-consent, or are your going to go after the father of your daughter's child? Nah, it looks like it's shotgun wedding time. By the way, she's cute (WINK-WINK, NUDGE-NUDGE). Welcome to real world politics, by the way.

Yeah, OK, I've heard she's gonna marry this little twit, but did you ever stop to think that she did this on-purpose because she thinks you're an asshole? How many teenagers would love to be in her shoes, having the capacity to totally screw-things-up for a parent whom they think is full-of-shit (all teenagers do, the majority of them are right).

Again: did the boy have a signed-note? Of course your youngest isn't hers, the child has down's syndrome which usually comes from a woman having a child too-late in life.

And don't think we don't know you've been in-tight (pun intended) with the accused Ted Stevens, that other crook from Alaska. The remainder of the functional press is digging deeply into your life, talking with everyone you ever screwed-over, all your past comments you should have kept to yourself but had to say in-front of journalists and enemies, and-then-some.

The picture--I predict--will not be a pretty one. That's gonna leave that shell-shocked McCain in a real pickle if enough hammers drop. Luck? You're gonna need it lady, and that's not even bringing "troopergate"into the picture. You were a cheerleader, right? Correct, women can be fascists too.

yours-in-Christ, Matt Janovic

Songs from the Site Meter: Visits over Ted Stevens

Site Meter--Quite a few hits on the meter over this, one from Washington D.C., then they went off to DCPhonelist to check if in fact the number is there for ASRC. Hint: it is, but I have the phone number (301-957-1234). An SS# was also included. Want it? ;0)

It's entertaining knowing you're costing scoundrels thousands-of-dollars in legal and investigative expenses.

This other number was also provided by Verizon: 301-837-5500

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And someone who appears to have been flying around with their laptop...

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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