May 24, 2007 at 02:01:02
Headlined on 5/24/07:
DC Madam scandal widens: Cheney, Giuliani, Abramoff
by Gustav Wynn
The media black-out on the scandal involving DC Madam Deborah Jeane
Palfrey is surprising in
light of the lack of lawsuits being leveled at the Wayne Madsen Re****t
website. Instead of Dick
Cheney and the recently resigned Randall Tobias filing libel and slander
lawsuits against the
site, we see only their silence. Moreover, the Wayne Madsen site has been
continually expanding
on this story - making this either the scoop of the century, or the
biggest fairy tale in DC
history.
Consider this: WMR is now re****ting specifically who at ABC News' 20/20
became fully aware of
not only Cheney's use of the escort service, but dozens more "high
profile" names - culled from
the phone records only since 2002 (the escort services full records go
back to 1994). ABC's
crack team was re****tedly gagged by their bosses after concerned calls
from the White House.
This would be amazing if true, yet no White House denial has been
forthcoming as of this writing...
WMR also re****ts that the DC Madam first came under DOJ scrutiny after US
Attorney Thomas
DiBiagio got a crooked cop Ed Norris (a pal of NYC Police Commish Bernard
Kerik) to squeal on
the escort service in May 2004, admitting the service had received illicit
payouts from
official police funds. Less then a year after Norris was hired as State
Superintendent by
Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich, another US Attorney, Johnathan Luna, who
had also
investigated Norris and Kerik back in NY turned up murdered in December of
2003. Luna at the
time was working under DiBagio on the DC Madam case, finding Ehrlich and
lobbyist Jack Abramoff
were DC Madam clients. Then, DiBiagio became the first U.S. Attorney fired
by the Justice
Department after Bush's re-election in 2004. Vastly underre****ted,
DiBagio's probe had linked
Republican governor Ehrlich to Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham and
others but the
investigation died when he was fired.
It wasn't until Palfrey attempted to leave the country and sell her house
that interest in the
DC Madam was revived. A warrant eventually seized her assets. WMR re****ts
that one DC law firm
representing Saudi clients turned up on the phone list and that another
patron on the list was
a client of the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani. Though Madsen can be a
little quick to
speculate, he stands by his claim, pur****tedly confirmed by three
different sources, that
Cheney's beltway phone number appeared in the records numerous time when
he was CEO of Halliburton.
No major media has picked up the story, though David Letterman mentioned
it in a recent
monologue, quipping that Cheney paid the hooker $2 billion dollars.
Wa****ngton Post did cover
an aspect of the story but omitted any mention of Cheney.
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.
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