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Apr. 30th, 2007 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaYou know what we've needed in Washington? A good juicy sex scandal.
Outing CIA agents to score a political point is just too grim; the ongoing Abramoff scandal is too complex; and the federal attorney firing scandal is too technical.
Ah, but illicit sex -- everyone gets that. Er, i mean, uh, you know, everyone understands that.
The trial of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, "the DC madam," is about to start, and she is planning to subpoena people from her list of reportedly thousands of contacts. She intends to prove that the services she brokered were not illegal, in part by forcing people to testify about the services they bought or sold.
As quoted by Pam Spaulding:
Already there has been one resignation -- that of Randall Tobias, who was... wait for it... President Bush's pro-abstinence and anti-condom czar.
Among those whom Palfrey plans to subpoena are US naval commander Harlan Ullman, the architect of "shock and awe."
Now, i don't necessarily agree with laws that regulate what a person can or cannot do sexually (especially since the enforcement of these laws has almost always tended to come down harder on women than on men). But it is particularly interesting when in the course of enforcing these laws, some people are exposed as hypocrites.
Outing CIA agents to score a political point is just too grim; the ongoing Abramoff scandal is too complex; and the federal attorney firing scandal is too technical.
Ah, but illicit sex -- everyone gets that. Er, i mean, uh, you know, everyone understands that.
The trial of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, "the DC madam," is about to start, and she is planning to subpoena people from her list of reportedly thousands of contacts. She intends to prove that the services she brokered were not illegal, in part by forcing people to testify about the services they bought or sold.
As quoted by Pam Spaulding:
"There are thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers," [ABC News correspondent Brian] Ross said. "And there are people there at the Pentagon, lobbyists, others at the White House, prominent lawyers — a long, long list." Ross added that the women who worked for the service, potentially as prostitutes, "include university professors, legal secretaries, scientists, military officers."
Already there has been one resignation -- that of Randall Tobias, who was... wait for it... President Bush's pro-abstinence and anti-condom czar.
Among those whom Palfrey plans to subpoena are US naval commander Harlan Ullman, the architect of "shock and awe."
Now, i don't necessarily agree with laws that regulate what a person can or cannot do sexually (especially since the enforcement of these laws has almost always tended to come down harder on women than on men). But it is particularly interesting when in the course of enforcing these laws, some people are exposed as hypocrites.
