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Title: United States of Amnesia: What about Cheney's DC Madam Problem
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Published: Mar 11, 2008
Author: Gustav Wynn
Post Date: 2008-03-11 16:53:13 by robin
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How soon we forget the blockbuster ABC News scoop that was - and then wasn't - much bigger and more explosive then Governor Spitzer's, because it alleged Dick Cheney was a client. Senator Vitter has admitted and apologized for his part in he scandal, but is still in office, likely to be subpoenaed in the Spring 2008 trial of Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey. GW is a proud American from NY State, concerned about ethics issues, media manipulation and overconsumption. He has recently changed careers to become an inner city schoolteacher. A firm proponent of curbing overpopulation and international adoption, he hopes to adopt a third child and enjoys history, outsider art, garage rock music and rare/unusual vinyl records.
In fact, when the news broke, Bush's "AIDS Czar" Randall Tobias, a former Eli Lilly top exec, resigned in shame. He should have stalled a bit like Louisiana Senator David Vitter did - the story was going to be killed, according to Wayne Madsen who named the ABC employee that pulled the plug after White House pressure.
Madsen expanded on the story after ABC dropped it, to allege that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a client, as well as a lawyer in Rudy Giuliani's firm.
Perhaps more sinister then the prostitution allegations are the questions of complicity in a media wash-out by ABC, whose in-house staff was originally given call records directly by Madam Palfrey.
Also according to Madsen, the probe of the DC Madam reveals much more troubling questions, including the unsolved murder of a US attorney and another fired in Bush's DOJ purge, both of whom were investigating the DC Madam case.
This network cover-up mirrors similar allegations made in Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News/Viacom. Hopeful his $70 million suit will go forward, Rather claims his controversial Texas Air Guard story was killed not because of the infamous disputed memo, but because of a call made from the White House.
Rather too, will likely name who in the Bush Administration made the call, and who at Viacom took it, also claiming CBS News quashed the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse scandal to curry White House favor, until it was reported by Australian news.
Read about the Vice President's prostitution scandal here: Cheney Scandal Widens, reported on OpEd News last May, and be sure to follow the trial this April, because network news may not!
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www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4430327&page=1 March 11, 2008— If the disgraced governor of New York lands in court for entangling himself with a prostitution service, he'll join Deborah Palfrey, aka the "D.C. Madam," who also faces charges for involvement with what prosecutors allege was a sex-for-hire business. April 7 is slated to be the first day of a federal trial for Palfrey, who insists her company was a "sexual fantasy services" firm that did not sell intercourse. She faces charges of financial crimes related to what prosecutors say was a criminal enterprise. Preparations for the trial are underway. Earlier this month Judge James Robertson ruled on a flurry of motions, denying a request by Palfrey to dismiss the proceedings and another one to suppress evidence from her home. According to another filing, prosecutors last week shared with Palfrey's lawyer the identities of previously unnamed people who testified before the grand jury which indicted Palfrey, and also gave him names of those they believed were part of Palfrey's operation, and those they believe engaged in racketeering acts with Palfrey. (Those categories are "somewhat overlapping," prosecutors said in a filing.) Palfrey declined to be interviewed by ABC News yesterday, referring calls to her court-appointed attorney, Preston Burton. Burton likewise declined comment. Depending on how you count, Burton is Palfrey's third, fourth or possibly even fifth counsel. The Charleroi, Pa. native was first represented by A.J. Kramer, but replaced him with Burton last May. She dismissed Burton in favor of her civil counsel, Montgomery Sibley, several months later. Last month she dismissed Sibley in favor of representing herself but later agreed to be represented again by Burton. Click Here for the Investigative Homepage. 'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'INTERESTING TIMING
Preparations Begin for D.C. Madam Trial
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By JUSTIN ROOD
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