Bush Official Resigns Because He Used Escort Service

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 12:13am

ABC News The Blotter

Senior Official Linked to Escort Service Resigns

April 27, 2007 8:58 PM

Brian Ross and Justin Rood Report:

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.

Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the ambassador for the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.

A State Department press release late Friday afternoon said only he was leaving for "personal reasons."

On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the "Pamela Martin and Associates" escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." Tobias, who is married, said there had been "no sex," and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages.

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.

"I'm sure as heck not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, four to eight years, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC News.

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.
Senior Official Linked to Escort Service Resigns

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 12:15am

From Saturday's Washington Post article:

"I'm sad today," said one person close to Tobias. "The president loves him and Condi absolutely loves him."
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[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 12:50am

stuff like this happens weekly. it no longer shocks me.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 1:43am

"I'm sure as heck not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, four to eight years, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC News.

The "D.C. Madam" says heck. Whoda thunk it?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 8:43am

I wonder if Bush's AIDS czar who emphasized faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS used a condom when he was unfaithful to his wife?

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 9:03am

PalJoey, you seem so into politics, but does posting stuff on here make any difference I wonder?

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 9:10am

DAMMIT, I thought for a second that the subject line said "Bush OFFICIALLY Resigns" and not "Bush OFFICIAL Resigns." It was going to be the best day ever.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 9:10am

Yes.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 11:08am

Yes PJ but did he suck her toes?

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 12:44pm

PJ should go into politics, I think. We need good people in the government.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 3:46pm

If I go into politics, muscle23, I want you to be the scandal that ruins my career. ;-}

[Jon]

Posted: 4/28/07 at 7:56pm

No man in history ever hired an escort for JUST a massage.

[pab]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 10:41am

"ABC is expected to air a report on Palfrey and her clients on "20/20" on May 4, during sweeps.

More revelations are in the offing. Ross said the list includes the names of some "very prominent people," as well as a number of women with "important and serious jobs" who had worked as escorts for the firm."
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[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 1:46pm

"No man in history ever hired an escort for JUST a massage."

Ted Haggard did. AND he bought drugs that he 'never used'.



C'mon, don't cha believe them any more?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 2:53pm

This gets juicier and juicier:

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Tobias is the second prominent man to be identified as a customer of the Palfrey's "sexual fantasy service." Two weeks ago, Palfrey alleged that military strategist Harlan K. Ullman, creator of the "shock and awe" combat theory and now a scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was also a customer. Ullman has said that the claim was "beneath the dignity of comment."

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Ross added new details to that story tonight, recounting how he asked Tobias in a telephone interview "if he knew any of the young women, their names. He said he didn’t remember them at all. He said it was like ordering pizza."
Senior Official Linked to Escort Service Resigns