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Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act

We talked about this back in January when Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mark Pryor (D-AR) introduced it into the Senate. This is the bill that would prevent the Bush Administration from circumventing the Senate confirmation process in the appointment of U.S. Attorneys. It was made necessary because the Bush Administration last year inserted a sneaky little provision into the Patriot Act reauthorization that allowed them to appoint interim U.S. Attorneys to serve for the remainder of Bush's term without having to be confirmed by the Senate. This was a deliberate move dreamed up by Karl Rove to replace current U.S. Attorneys who were causing problems with more compliant "loyal Bushies." "Loyal Bushies" is the official term used by the Bush Administration.

This is what Attorneygate is all about. It's about the Bush Administration firing perfectly fine U.S. Attorneys who were doing an excellent job but who weren't doing as they were told by Karl Rove and his two acolytes who were installed at the Justice Department to actually run things. Alberto Gonzales was just the front man. He was ordered to delegate extraordinary powers to Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling, the two thirty-something RNC hacks who had virtually no experience other than running oppostion research at the RNC. Monica Goodling is the dippy drugstore blonde whose primary qualification for the job was that she was a graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law. Regent brags that 150 of their law school graduates work in the Bush Administration. In the Justice Department, these people are referred to as "holy hires."

The bill to close the loophole in the Patriot Act -- S. 214 Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act -- passed the Senate by a 94-2 margin on March 20 and the House by a 306-114 vote on May 22. That's a veto-proof margin in both chambers -- 98% in the Senate and 73% in the House. The bill was sent to President Bush for his signature (or veto) on June 4. The President has NOT YET signed it.

Why is that? Why wouldn't the President sign this bill that has such overwhelming bipartisan support?

Could it be that Attorney General Gonzales intends to appoint more interim U.S. Attorneys using the old sneaky Patriot Act loophole? Would the Bush Administration dare to flout the will of the American people in such a brazen manner? Could they possibly be that arrogant?

The answer, boys and girls, is apparently yes!

Alberto Gonzales intends to appoint George Cardona tomorrow as interim U.S. Attorney in the Central District in California according to reliable sources. Under the provisions of the Patriot Act loophole, he would be able to serve until January 2009 without having to be confirmed by the Senate.

Bush doesn't care what the American people think. He never has. After all, he answers only to God.

Bush caved in!

With no fanfare whatsoever, the following very brief announcement appeared on the official White House website earlier today:

On June 14, 2007, the President signed into law: S. 214, the "Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007."

Note that it is dated yesterday. That's because, according to the White House, the President signed that bill late yesterday evening. Earlier yesterday, Sen. Leahy announced that the Senate would not allow Attorney General Gonzales to make any more interim appointments without going through the Senate confirmation process. That was after Leahy's committee had been notified by Justice that the Attorney General intended to make another interim appointment on June 16.

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Speaking of bills designed to preserve and restore our Consitution...

Democrats in Congress have been hard at work trying to reverse the havoc wreaked on our Constitution by the previous "see no evil, hear no evil, impede no evil" Republican-controlled Congress. Two bills are currently working their way through the process: the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 and the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007. Both bills will certainly pass, assuming the Republicans in the Senate don't filibuster them, but then there is the question of whether President Bush will sign them or veto them.

The conservative 4th Circuit dealt President Bush a severe blow this past week when they slapped him upside the head and accused him of abusing the Constitution. The court ordered the Pentagon to release a man being held as an enemy combatant.

Here is the bottom line. The Bush Administration, with the aid of Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo, have come up with the absurd idea that the President has the power to declare ANYONE an enemy combatant and order them held without charges and without trial indefinitely. Anyone means exactly that. You could be next.

Here's another point to remember. Anyone legally residing in the United States is considered a "U.S. person" under the Constitution. If you are a legal resident, you are entitled to the same protections as an American citizen. Previous cases involved enemy combatants (Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla) who were actually U.S. citizens but this latest case involved an enemy combatant who was only a legal resident of the U.S. He has been held for the past four years at a Navy Brig in South Carolina.

The Bush Administration has been losing all of these cases in the federal courts. Hamdi was freed and sent to Saudi Arabia after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed him to challenge his detention in 2004. Padilla was transferred to the criminal justice system last year just as the Supreme Court was considering whether to review his case. The administration could see the handwriting on the wall. He is now on trial on terrorism charges in a federal court in Miami.

What the courts are saying is that you can't pick up people off the street and declare them enemy combatants and then hold them in prison indefinitely without even charging them. Please don't confuse this with the people who were picked up overseas in Afghanistan or Pakistan, etc. President Bush has claimed the authority to declare anyone in the world an enemy combatant, even American citizens and legal residents, and have them incarcerated indefinitely without even charging them. You can be an American citizen or a legal resident here and they can snatch you up right off the street in New York City and throw you in prison and throw away the key as long as Bush personally declares that you are an enemy combatant. This is obviously unconstitutional but Bush's Department of Justice interprets the Constitution differently than any previous Department of Justice. Remember, Alberto Gonzales is the guy who said the Geneva Conventions were "quaint" and "obsolete."

The latest case involves a guy named Ali al-Marri. He was picked up four years ago as a suspected al-Qaida operative. He has spent the last four years in a Navy Brig in Charleston, S.C. He may very well be an al-Qaida operative. The court is not saying that he isn't, but the court rejected the central assertions of the Bush Administration about the scope of executive authority of the President to do whatever he sees fit to combat terrorism regardless of the laws or the Constitution.

“To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians," Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote, “even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution — and the country.”

“We refuse to recognize a claim to power,” Judge Motz added, “that would so alter the constitutional foundations of our Republic.”

This was a 2-1 decision of a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit. The administration will now appeal to the full court.

Here's a link to the NY Times article.


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"Fundamental juridical rights, such as the Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury, help prevent the oppression of individual citizens by limiting the capacity of government officials to persecute persons based on trumped-up charges or non-existent offenses." -- Thomas Jefferson

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The Office of Special Counsel, which has already recommended that GSA chief Lurita Doan be suspended or fired for participating in partisan activities while on the job, is now moving forward with its investigation of nearly 20 other administration agencies.

You can read about it here.

Why so many agencies? Because that's how many different government agencies the White House has admitted received Karl Rove's PowerPoint briefing pointing out which Democratic seats were being targeted and what they could do in their jobs to help.

All of this is a violation of federal law, which is why Lurita Doan is in hot water. She's the head of the GSA who couldn't remember anything when she testified recently before Congress.

Yes, it's going to be a long, hot summer for Karl Rove.

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In the Bushie/Gonzo Justice Department, being a Republican wasn't good enough: you had to be a "loyal Bushie" Republican!

Employees who were suspected of being John McCain supporters were considered unloyal and not worthy of promotion or even continued employment. The Bush Administration was determined to push out any Democrats or non-Bushie Republicans to "make room for some good Americans."

Political Hiring in Justice Division Probed

Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago -- over the objections of their immediate supervisors -- by Bradley Schlozman, then the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Schlozman ordered supervisors to tell the women that they had performance problems or that the office was overstaffed. But one lawyer, Conor Dugan, told colleagues that the recent Bush appointee had confided that his real motive was to "make room for some good Americans" in that high-impact office, according to four lawyers who said they heard the account from Dugan.

In another politically tinged conversation recounted by former colleagues, Schlozman asked a supervisor if a career lawyer who had voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a onetime political rival of President Bush, could still be trusted.

Schlozman has acknowledged in sworn congressional testimony that he had boasted of hiring Republicans and conservatives, but he denied taking improper actions against the division's career officials. That account was challenged by six officials in the division who said in interviews that they either overhead him making brazen political remarks about career employees or witnessed him making personnel decisions with apparent political motivation.

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Schlozman raised the question of partisan politics bluntly in the fall of 2004, they said, when asking appellate supervisors about the "loyalty" of division lawyer Angela Miller, who had once clerked for David. B. Sentelle, a conservative federal appeals judge. He told Miller's bosses that he learned that she voted for McCain in the 2004 Republican primary and asked, "Can we still trust her?"

He also warned section chief Diana Flynn that he would be keeping an eye on the legal work of another career lawyer who "didn't even vote for Bush," according to colleagues who said they heard Flynn describe the exchange. Miller told several of the colleagues that she considered Schlozman's remarks a form of intimidation, and started looking for another job, the lawyers said.

Schlozman and several deputies also took an unusual interest in the assignment of office responsibility for appellate cases and, according to the lawyers and one of the supervisors, repeatedly ordered Flynn to take cases away from career lawyers with expertise and hand them to recent hires whose résumés listed membership in conservative groups, including the Federalist Society.

Colleagues were especially surprised when Sarah Harrington, who graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and was one of the most highly regarded lawyers in the section, had four cases -- including one concerning religious freedom -- taken away at Schlozman's instruction.

In February 2005, Calderon, Stevens and Harrington were all passed over in favor of a recent Schlozman hire when they applied for a new supervisory job that Schlozman created.

In March, Calderon's cases were reassigned and she was given only deportation cases, as were some of her colleagues, several lawyers said. That spring, Schlozman told a resistant Flynn to transfer Stevens to the disability rights section. According to sources in the office, Schlozman instructed Flynn to tell Stevens that the transfer was related to performance and was her idea.

You can read the rest here.

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Originally Posted by Ninong

Let's revisit this D.C. Madam story for a minute:

The judge just issued a restraining order forbidding the D.C. Madam from making any more phone numbers public. This was to prevent her from releasing phone records from 1996-2002. The records ABC News has cover the years 2003-2006. The judge explained that releasing the records amounted to "witness intimidation," since some of those customers might be called as witnesses in Jeane Palfrey's trial.

If you review the statements made by Brian Ross during the days leading up to that brief, nothing-new 20/20 segment, you will see that he actually did say that there were several high-ranking Bush Administration figures on the list as well as the CEO of a major corporation, prominent D.C. lawyers and lobbyists, military officers, the head of a conservative think tank, etc. Then he went on 20/20 and completely reversed course. He said that the people on the list were mostly ordinary people and not newsworthy.

A couple of days before that Friday night 20/20 segment aired, the blogs were full of reports that Disney executives had leaned on ABC News (Disney owns ABC TV) to shut down the investigation and NOT reveal any more names. Since then certain bloggers are reporting leaks from inside the White House, the CIA, the Pentagon and elsewhere that the "CEO of a major corporation" was actually the former CEO and that he was the CEO of Halliburton at the time. During that period, Halliburton's CEO maintained a local residence in McLean, Virginia. One blogger insists that he has confirmed this with "three extremely credible" sources. If this is true, it would definitely be "newsworthy," Big Time!

Judge Kessler has lifted the injunction on the phone records!!!



From Judge Kessler’s Order: “Defendant in this case possesses a list of telephone numbers (the “List”) that has generated much controversy and speculation. The Government has twice applied to this Court ex parte for Temporary Retraining Orders (”TROs”) preventing Defendant from selling the List or from distributing copies for free. The Court granted those applications, in order to preserve the status quo, and, therefore, held a hearing to give Defendant an opportunity to respond. Upon consideration of the pleadings,the applicable statutes and case law, and the oral argument, the Court concludes the Defendant’s request to quash the TROs should be granted.”



Let the games begin!

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Yes, it is the official Department of Justice website:

Check it out quick before they fix it.


Latest News
High Ranking Member of Colombian FARC Narco-Terrorist Organization Sentenced on U.S. Drug Charges

July 2, 2007

A high-ranking member of the designated foreign terrorist organization Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, has been sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on drug charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.

P.S. -- Tony Snow said that in spite of the drug charges, the President retains full confidence in Alberto Gonzales.

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Bush justice is a national disgrace -- op-ed in the Denver Post by a longtime career attorney in the Justice Department. Check it out.

Here's his closing paragraph:

I realize that this constitutionally protected statement subjects me to a substantial risk of unlawful reprisal from extremely ruthless people who have repeatedly taken such action in the past. But I am confident that I am speaking on behalf of countless thousands of honorable public servants, at Justice and elsewhere, who take their responsibilities seriously and share these views. And some things must be said, whatever the risk.

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Originally Posted by Ninong

Judge Kessler has lifted the injunction on the phone records!!!



From Judge Kessler’s Order: “Defendant in this case possesses a list of telephone numbers (the “List”) that has generated much controversy and speculation. The Government has twice applied to this Court ex parte for Temporary Retraining Orders (”TROs”) preventing Defendant from selling the List or from distributing copies for free. The Court granted those applications, in order to preserve the status quo, and, therefore, held a hearing to give Defendant an opportunity to respond. Upon consideration of the pleadings,the applicable statutes and case law, and the oral argument, the Court concludes the Defendant’s request to quash the TROs should be granted.”



Let the games begin!

The Games Have Begun!!!



Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has admitted that he has "sinned."

I think I've seen this movie before.

Before Sen. Vitter was elected to the United States Senate to fill the seat vacated by the retiring Sen. John Breaux, he was the U.S. Representative from my district (LA-1). He got that job when Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA), the Speaker-elect, was forced to retire in disgrace after Larry Flynt revealed that Mr. Livingston had engaged in four separate extra-marital affairs during his time in Washington. The details of those affairs were never published, although Flynt had sworn statements from four different women, after Mrs. Livingston made a personal appeal to Flynt to please spare her family the indignation. In return, she assured Flynt that her husband would not only not be the next Speaker of the House but he would resign from Congress within a couple of months.

So Vitter became a Congressman thanks to Bob Livingston's infidelity. Something like that would never happen to little David because he's a firm believer in the "Sanctity of Marriage" and he will defend marriage against the "Hollywood left."

Here's his official statement:

Vitter Statement on Protecting the Sanctity of Marriage

“This is a real outrage. The Hollywood left is redefining the most basic institution in human history, and our two U.S. Senators won’t do anything about it.

We need a U.S. Senator who will stand up for Louisiana values, not Massachusetts’s values. I am the only Senate Candidate to coauthor the Federal Marriage Amendment; the only one fighting for its passage. I am the only candidate proposing changes to the senate rules to stop liberal obstructionists from preventing an up or down vote on issues like this, judges, energy, and on and on.” stated David Vitter.

Quelle surprise!




WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. David Vitter, R-La., apologized Monday night for "a very serious sin in my past" after his telephone number appeared among those associated with an escort service operated by the so-called "D.C. Madam."

Vitter's spokesman, Joel Digrado, confirmed the statement in an e-mail sent to The Associated Press.

"This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter said in the statement. "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there -- with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way."

The statement containing Vitter's apology said his telephone number was on old phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates before he ran for the Senate.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey was accused in federal court of racketeering by running a prostitution ring that netted more than $2 million over 13 years, beginning in 1993. She contends, however, that her escort service, Pamela Martin and Associates, was a legitimate business.

A federal judge last week lifted a restraining order in connection with those charges, effectively allowing Palfrey to distribute thousands of pages of phone records that could identify as many as 15,000 people who had dealings with what she has argued was a legal escort service.

Vitter, 46, a Republican in his first Senate term, was elected to the Senate in 2004. He represented Louisiana's 1st Congressional District in the House from 1999 to 2004.

Vitter and his wife, Wendy, live in Metairie, La., with their four children.

When Vitter was being rumored as a potential candidate for governor in 2003, he dropped out of conderation, acknowledging some marital difficulties.

He ended the speculation about his political future in February 2006, notifying supporters by letter that he would not challenge Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who has since dropped her plan to seek a second term.

Palfrey's attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, told the AP, "I'm stunned that someone would be apologizing for this already." He said Palfrey had posted the names of her escort service's clients online Monday, but he did not know whether Vitter's name was among them.

The AP was unable to connect to Palfrey's Web site Monday night.

Earlier this year Palfrey, 51, of Vallejo, Calif., asked the Supreme Court to delay the criminal case against her -- a request the court denied in May. Her attorney had argued that it was unfair to proceed against Palfrey because her assets remain seized in a civil forfeiture case, meaning she lacks the money to hire an attorney of her choice.

Randall Tobias, a senior official in the State Department, resigned in April after ABC News confronted him about his use of the escort service. He admitted that he had hired women to come to his Washington condo and give him massages but denied that he had sex with the escorts.

Political pollster Bernie Pinsonat said Vitter is the most popular statewide elected official with approval ratings consistently hovering around 70 percent. Since he isn't up for re-election until 2010, Pinsonat said the freshman senator will be able to weather the storm.

"Voters will probably give him a second chance," Pinsonat said.

Vitter was among the first members of Congress to endorse former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for president fueling speculation that the senator was angling for a vice presidential bid. Pinsonat said that Vitter's acknowledgement of a "serious sin" snuffs out any hope he may have had about being on a national Republican presidential ticket.

"When you are picking a vice president you want someone without any sort of baggage you have to drag across the finish line," Pinsonat said.

Vitter also faces perhaps more scrutiny than many politicians because he's made family issues a key component of his political career.

Both in the state Legislature and later in Congress, Vitter has been a strong opponent of legalized abortion. In recent years, he has been one of the most ardent opponents of same sex marriage, proposing a constitutional amendment to bar the practice. Children, he has said, are better off living in a family with a mother and father.

It's unclear what prompted Vitter to issue his statement last night. Palfrey, the alleged D.C. Madam, has said through her lawyers that she is making lists of her clients available to some media organizations in hopes it will produce some witnesses for any future legal proceedings.

Silas Lee, a New Orleans pollster and professor at Xavier University, said that some voters will see his admission as a "contradiction because he is a social conservative and this definitely flies in the face of his principles."

"Re-election is a long time away. I don't know if this is the single issue that will cause his defeat. A lot depends on him and his ability to convince voters that he is sincere and want their forgiveness," Lee said.


P.S. -- We need to pass a law defending marriage from all the Republican hypocrites, especially the holier-than-thou types. The "sin" here is hypocrisy! Like Mitt Romney, who promised the voters of Massachusetts that if elected to the Senate he would do more for gay rights than Ted Kennedy, David Vitter promised that if elected to the Senate he would do more to overturn gay rights and "defend" marriage than the do-nothing Democrats. Both were lying hypocrites. Even after Hurricane Katrina, Vitter had the gall to tell an audience that the most important challenge facing the nation was the passage of a Constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriage -- more important than terrorism, more important than Iraq, more important that helping the victims of Katrina, more important than the politicization of the government by the corrupt Bush Administration. According to little David Vitter, gay marriage was the number one threat to the security of our country and as the official "family values" Senator from Louisiana, he was going to do his part in the war against gay marriage because the Democrats were slackers who were willing to let gays force people to enter into gay marriages against their will. If we didn't do something to stop it now, everybody would be forced to have a gay marriage.

P.P.S. -- Rated 100% by the Christian Coalition: a pro-family voting record. (Dec 2003) This little "sin" will have absolutely no effect on his 100% rating by the Christian Coalition. We learned that when that congressman from upstate New York strangled his hooker girlfriend. He had an outstanding Christian Coalition rating and it was unaffected by his minor slip-up. He was NOT reelected.

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This isn't the first time David Vitter has been accused of cavorting with hookers, it's just the first time he has admitted it.

Congressman Denies Affair With Prostitute, Says Charges Are Politically Motivated

by Christopher Tidmore

PoliticsLA.com columnist

posted by March 26, 2004

For the first time, Congressman David Vitter has spoken out publically about allegations that he carried on an eleven month affair with a known prostitute named Wendy Cortez.

On WSMB radio last Saturday, a caller who identified himself as Elwood asked Vitter about charges, made by a member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee in the Weekly that the then-State Representative, had had an affair with a known prosition in the French Quarter. Elwood continued, "Would you be willing to sign an affidavit that you have ever known, met or had relations with one Wendy Cortez."

Vitter responded, "I think you know that that alligation is abosultely and completely untrue...I have said that on numerous occassions...I'll say that in any forum...Unfortuanately, that's just crass Louisiana politics, now that I am running for the Senate. I have made that clear that it is alll completely untrue...And, it's obviously politically motivated."

In point of fact, Congressman Vitter had previously refused any comment on the charges. The story appeared in this newspaper just days after Vitter dropped out of the race for Governor in June of 2002. The Louisiana Weekly published allegations that Cortez, a known prostitute, claimed that she had an 11-month affair with Vitter, a state representative at the time.

P.S. -- We'll have to ask David if he went to confession for that one, too. And for lying about it.

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Here's a Salon piece on David Vitter from back when he was running for the Senate in 2004.

When he won, he became the first GOP Senator from Louisiana in more than 100 years. What's so nice about his hooker problems coming to light and him being forced to admit it, is that he has denied these accusations for years.

He became famous exposing perks that local Democrats were taking advantage of. He ran for Congress and then for the Senate as the holier-than-thou, goody-goody candidate. He denied that he had made a deal with the Reichwing GOP candidate, David Duke, but he had.

It's payback time.

P.S. -- He was also on the take from Jack Abramoff. Abramoff held a fund-raiser for Vitter in September 2003 just two months before Vitter inserted a provision into a spending bill helping one of Abramoff's tribal clients, the Louisiana Coushattas, according to the Washington, D.C., newspaper Roll Call.

He also received $6000 in donations from tribes that were Abramoff clients. Vitter's public position on gambling is that he is opposed to it.

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OMG! This is hilarious!

In 2000, Vitter was included in a Newhouse News Service story about the strain of congressional careers on families.

His wife, Wendy, was asked by the Newhouse News reporter: If her husband was as unfaithful as former President Bill Clinton, would she be as forgiving as Hillary Clinton?

“I’m a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary,” Wendy Vitter told Newhouse News. “If he does something like that, I’m walking away with one thing, and it’s not alimony, trust me. I think fear is a very good motivating factor in a marriage." (Go for it, girl!)



P.S. -- This could be a very unhappy ending indeed! Vitter has been in hiding all day. We assumed he was hiding from the press but maybe he's hiding from his wife? David Vitter is lucky he doesn't live here.

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Does this mean Sen. Vitter will be charged?

Back to the same old question again: If they're going to prosecute prostitutes for prostitution, shouldn't they prosecute the customers, too?

Sen. Vitter has already pleaded guilty. What's the punishment?

He said he talked to God and God forgave him. God also told him to keep quiet about it and not say anything until the DC Madam's phone list was posted because maybe the judge wouldn't release it. God said he would talk to the judge but he wasn't making any promises.

So when does he enter rehab? Does this mean Rudy Giuliani will have to choose a new Southern Regional Campaign Manager? Vitter volunteered as Giuliani's regional manager a few months back even though he doesn't agree with any of Giuliani's positions on all of the social issues. I think Vitter was bucking for the VP spot. So much for that idea!

P.S. -- Vitter has something in common with Bill Clinton: They were both Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. Vitter's brother, Jeff, is the Dean of the College of Science at Purdue.

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"I'm thinking of a number..."

P.S. -- If there is any justice in this world, Big Time's number will be next.

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Deborah Jean Palfrey, the DC Madam, has posted the phone numbers online:

The following links to Palfrey's records may only work periodically due to site outages.
AT&T 2000
Cingular 2005
Cingular 2004-05
Sprint 1994
Sprint 1999
Sprint 2000
Sprint 2002
Sprint 2003
Sprint 2004
Sprint 2005
Sprint 2006
Sprint 1995
Sprint 1995 (2)
Sprint 1996
Sprint 1998

Reverse Phone Directory for Cell Phone & Unlisted Numbers (P.S. -- I didn't realize that this is a fee-based service. )

Reverse Phone Directory Using WhitePages.com

Reverse Directory for White Pages, Yellow Pages and Reverse Street Address

Happy Hunting! Maybe you can find your local Congressman or the boss you really hated, the one who promoted the other person over you even though you were more qualified.

Bonus points for finding your local clergyman.



P.S. -- Remember, we're looking for the CEO of a Fortune 500 company who maintained a residence in the DC area. Big Time was CEO of Halliburton from 1995-2000. We're also looking for the head of a "conservative think tank."

So far I have only been able to download all of Sprint 1996. The servers are swamped. I'm afraid somebody will get an injunction to block her site, so I'm trying to get as much downloaded as possible as fast as possible.

P.P.S. -- I have now downloaded EVERYTHING except the first file, AT&T 2000. I can't seem to connect on that one but I have ALL OF THE OTHERS!

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Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine is taking credit for outing David Vitter:

Larry Flynt's ongoing investigation into the dirty secrets of prominent elected officials has exposed another hypocrite. Monday's confession of marital infidelity by GOP right-wing marriage-protection advocate Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was the result of a multi-pronged investigation launched and run by Larry Flynt, publisher of HUSTLER Magazine.

Within hours of a phone call from the offices of HUSTLER Magazine asking Vitter to comment on an article HUSTLER reporters were working on, Vitter ran to the Associated Press in an attempt to get ahead of the story.

As of 2 p.m. West Coast time on Monday, only Larry Flynt and the HUSTLER investigative team knew that Vitter¹s phone number appeared on the phone records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam. Within hours of obtaining the phone records, Flynt¹s team found what ABC News has so far been unable to ferret out. Flynt's team is currently continuing its investigation into improprieties by other high-ranking elected officials.

Senator Vitter, a churchgoing Catholic who is married and has four children, is seen as a hard-line right-winger. A staunch supporter of President Bush, Vitter has built his reputation on family-values platforms such as marriage protection and abstinence-only programs.

In opposition to same-sex marriage, Vitter recently stated, "Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure."

Sen. Vitter announced his support for Rudy Giuliani in March and was tapped by the presidential nomination candidate to serve as his Southern Regional Chair.

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Sen. David Vitter's speech on the floor of the Senate in support of the Sanctity of Marriage, July 6, 2006. YouTube clip, runs just under 4 minutes.

Vitter is a firm believer in the "Sanctity of Marriage," which is why he parades his wife and four young children around with him on the campaign trail. He also believes extra-marital affairs are just fine as long as nobody finds out about them. If somebody finds out, all you have to do is "go to confession" and start over. Works every time according to little David.

David Vitter also believes that a pregnant rape victim or a pregnant victim of incest, should be forced to have the baby of her rapist. His strong Catholic values compel him to require this. They don't compel him to keep his marriage vows but they compel him to force innocent rape victims, many of whom are only children themselves, to bear the child of their rapist. It's part of those GOP "family values."

David says that he won't talk about this sin from his past anymore because that's something between him and his wife and God. God told him not to talk about it. In fact, God told him to keep quiet about it unless Larry Flynt threatened to write a story about it in Hustler magazine, in which case God told him to hurry up and put out a statement saying God had forgiven him.

God talks to all Republicans. And he forgives them their serial adultery. Just ask Rudy Giuliani, another good Catholic who has a history of serial adultery.

What is so hilarious about all these "Christian Values" candidates is that they are constantly making the news thanks to their hookups with hookers and their multiple divorces. I really enjoyed the fact that Giuliani was married to his first wife for 14 years before getting the Catholic Church to grant an annulment. Rudy said it was because he and his wife didn't realize they were third cousins. Not first cousins or even second cousins, THIRD cousins! So the Catholic Church dutifully granted him an annulment even though there is no prohibition against marriage to even your second cousins much less third cousins.

Giuliani is a devout Catholic. He even took his mistress to St. Patrick's Cathedral while still married to his second wife. And when he got tired of a mistress, he simple found a nice $250,000/year government job for her so that he could take up with the next mistress, the current third Mrs. Giuliani. Giuliani's second wife was troublesome. She didn't want to give him a divorce and she was refusing to move out of Gracie Mansion as he had asked her to do. So he announced his decision to divorce her on national TV without bothering to inform her in advance. His children thought that showed a lack of class.

P.S. -- I forgot to mention that like Randy Tobias -- the DC Madam's other high-profile client -- Sen. Vitter is a firm believer in abstinence-only sex education and abstinence as the only means of HIV/AIDS prevention deserving of U.S. funding. He doesn't practice it himself but he believes it nonetheless. He co-sponsored legislation to federally finance abstinence-only education and called a ban on gay marriage the most important issue in the country today. He also told the New Orleans Times-Picayune that "infidelity, divorce, and deadbeat dads contribute to the breakdown of traditional families." Little David is a big defender of "traditional values."

Little David Vitter is very big on abstinence. And family values. And sticking your wife and kids on stage as campaign props.

P.P.S. -- One of the local New Orleans TV stations did an interview with Jeanette Maier, the former Canal Street Madam. She said David Vitter was a wonderful man who loves his wife and family very much, and yes, he happened to be a regular customer of her brothel before the feds shut it down in 2001.

That was a hilarious local story at the time. The FBI were investigating a local doctor for Medicare fraud and they intercepted his numerous calls to the brothel. They also came across a total of $333,000 in checks written by the doctor to the brothel's owner. The FBI leaned on the doctor and he squealed on the brother and the many very powerful local politicians, doctors, lawyers, famous athletes, etc., that made up its clientele.

The local U.S. Attorney brought charges against the Canal Street Madam but the federal judge sealed the lists of customers' names. They were trying to prosecute the case while keeping all of the names of the customers secret. Eventually they cut a deal. Everybody at the brothel pleaded guilty to something and the case was closed. Nobody did any jail time at all. The brothel's owner, Jeanette Maier, got the stiffest sentence: three years probation, six months in a halfway house and a $10,000 fine. The list of customers reportedly contains the names of at least 60 prominent politicians, including 20 locals. Also on the list, according to published reports, are the names of district attorneys, judges, high-ranking police officers, TV personalities, doctors, famous athletes, and assorted other people who didn't want their names made public. Pressure was put on the feds to close the case without a trial. It was a case that would never have been brought by local law enforcement because they were among the customers. In fact, the local district attorney refused to touch the case. The only reason the feds got involved, according to them, is because they suspected mob connections of some sort to the brothel.

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Stinging indictment of the Bush Administration by their own Surgeon General:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first U.S. surgeon general appointed by President George W. Bush accused the administration on Tuesday of political interference and muzzling him on key issues like embryonic stem cell research.

"Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried," Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the nation's top doctor from 2002 until 2006, told a House of Representatives committee.

"The problem with this approach is that in public health, as in a democracy, there is nothing worse than ignoring science, or marginalizing the voice of science for reasons driven by changing political winds. The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation, not the doctor of a political party," Carmona added.

Carmona said Bush administration political appointees censored his speeches and kept him from talking out public