Deputy Secretary of State Resigns
Posted on | April 28, 2007
The Friday afternoon news dump has been full of the Bush Administration for years now. Yesterday’s bombshell was the resignation of Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias:
Tobias’ private cell number was among thousands of numbers listed in the telephone records provided to ABC News by Jeane Palfrey, the woman dubbed the “D.C. Madam,” who is facing the federal charges. In an interview to be broadcast on 20/20 next Friday, Palfrey says she intends to call Tobias and a number of her other prominent D.C. clients to testify at her trial…
Palfrey maintains she ran a sexual fantasy business that was legal and that if any of the women who were working for her had sex, they did so in violation of her rules and without her knowledge. She says there are a number of other prominent Washington, D.C. men who will be on her witness list. “I’ll bring every last one of them in if necessary,” Palfrey said.
As the Bush administration’s so-called “AIDS czar,” Tobias was criticized for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Now we know why the government fought so hard to keep a lid on those phone records. Who else will suddenly decide to spend more time with his family, do you think? I’m no fan of sex scandals, but it’s instructive to be reminded regularly of the Bush Administration’s deep-seated hypocrisy. The phony morality they preach is for the little people, not for married corporate executives turned political appointees.
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