Sex scandal threatens to "out" many Washington VIPs… -The iPINIONS Journal

Almost two months ago, I wrote an article about a DC madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who had just been arrested and was threatening to sell “46 pounds of detailed and itemized phone records” – from 13 years of business transactions with over 10,000 “Johns”- to settle IRS tax liabilities and defend herself against an orgy of prostitution-related charges.

If you prosecute me, I can make life miserable for many VIPs….I can state with unequivocal certainty this situation will be a long and unpleasant one. [Madame Jeane (a.k.a. Miz Julia) to federal prosecutors upon her arrest]

Well, federal prosecutors have accepted her dare. Accordingly, Miz Julia will be making a very public court appearance in Washington this morning for procedural matters related to her trial. Likewise, however, VIPs are already experiencing the misery she warned about. Because just last Friday, President Bush’s deputy secretary of state, Randall L Tobias, was forced to resign after his desperate solicitations to prevent his name being outed failed.

Of course, Tobias, married with children, is eminently worthy of being caught with his pants down in this respect. After all, when he served as Bush’s AIDS Czar, this hypocrite traveled the world preaching “fidelity and abstinence” over the use of condoms as the best way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

But Tobias insists that he only used Miz Julia’s girls (and he had his pick of 132 “college-educated” masseuses who catered to her DC clientele) for massages to release the stress of his demanding work; that, in fact, “there was no sex”. (Like Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman…?) Frankly, this patently-fatuous defense makes him not only a hypocrite and but also a fool.

(Although this begs the question: Does a happy ending to his massages qualify as sex? After all, given the Clinton precedent, the therapeutic hand job these working girls gave Tobias might not even qualify as foreplay….)

Meanwhile, Washington is a buzz with speculation (and some trepidation to be sure) about what really big names might be scrolled in Miz Julia’s black book. Indeed, since misery loves company, Tobias should be comforted by the fact that other VIPs will soon be joining him in early retirement after their names are outed this Friday by my favorite investigative reporter, Brian Ross. Because, despite vowing to sell her files to the highest bidder, Miz Julia did the far more honorable thing by giving Ross exclusive access to them, for free, to ensure that equal justice is served upon all participants in her victimless criminal enterprise. So expect many more careers to be ruined as prosecutors attempt to ruin her life.

That said, I shall derive perverse pleasure from seeing Miz Julia deliver on the misery and unpleasantness she promised; notwithstanding my genuine empathy with her indignant cry: