'DC madam' lawyer: Cheney isn't not on phone records Ron Brynaert

Published: Wednesday May 23, 2007 Print This Email This Although ABC News claimed that an examination of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone records revealed that there weren't any more prominent ex-clients of the DC madam, that hasn't stopped the guessing games and rumour mills from working overtime. "Vice President Cheney isnt not on the phone records of the alleged D.C. Madam, who is accused of running a high-price call-girl ring in Washington, the accused madams lawyer said on Tuesday," Emily Heil reports for Roll Call. "But then again, the veep isnt on the list, he said  not necessarily." Heil continues, "Whats that? Montgomery Blair Sibley, lawyer to alleged madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey, tossed out the age-old 'can neither confirm nor deny' teaser line while appearing with his client at Nathans in Georgetown for one of the restaurants Q&A Café chatting sessions. But clearly, the headline-hyping Sibley was eager to fan the flames of the bizarre Cheney escort-service rumor, which has popped up in some far corners of the blogosphere." 'We are investigating some numbers in the McLean area ... and if that turns something up, he might be called as a witness,' Sibley said, referring to the Virginia neighborhood that the vice president once called home," Roll Call reports. A few weeks ago, DC gossip blog Wonkette gave "[t]hanks to the 700 people who sent in the latest 'anythings possible' rumor from angry local blogger Wayne Madsen." "ABC News all but dropped the story when Cheney threatened to jam that prop phone three feet up the ass of Brian Ross," Wonkette mocked. "Thats why the formerly explosive scandal story instead got seven minutes at the end of whatever ABC News show Friday night." According to Roll Call, "Palfrey and Sibley expressed disappointment, too, over the shortage of boldfaced names in ABCs reporting on the phone records." At his website, Madsen mentioned that CBS late night host David Letterman referred to the Cheney rumour. "Here's a story we're working on now," Letterman said, according to Madsen's account. "Apparently, there are rumors coming out of Washington that Vice President Dick Cheney, when he was the CEO of Halliburton, used to go visit prostitutes. This could explain why one girl was paid two billion dollars. I mean, I was thinking about this and Cheney ... I mean, going to a prostitute, that's ... I mean, I can't believe a good-looking guy like that would ever have to pay for sex, you know what I'm saying?" Wonkette explained why its staffers were "underwhelmed by this rumor." "Because even if its a fact, which it probably is, theres no way it would have any impact on Cheneys 'career,'" Wonkette continued. "This is a draft-dodging half-human war criminal with a pregnant lesbian daughter who tells senators to fuck themselves and shoots his own friends in the face. Ordering an outcall hooker is positively innocent compared to the well-known things Cheney does every day." FULL ROLL CALL ARTICLE CAN BE READ AT THIS LINK



