The DC Madam, again (UPDATE: SHE MENTIONS CHENEY!)

The Prissy Patriot claims that she has confirmation from sources other than Wayne Madsen that Dick Cheney was a client of girls employed by the so-called DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. The site also links to a raw sound file of an interview with Palfrey.

She emphasizes that she is being singled out for prosecution. She points out that there are plenty of escort services in the DC area, yet she is the only being charged with federal racketeering and money laundering. She is also charged with conspiracy, even though no other conspirators are named.

I strongly urge you to listen to this interview. You may think you understand the case, but you need to hear Palfrey's side of the matter in her own words. She is quite articulate and she organizes complex material in a very comprehensible, linear fashion.

I am beginning to suspect that something really is up here. Brian Ross of ABC comes off particularly badly. On air, Ross said that most of the clients were not "newsworthy." According to Palfrey, Ross said something quite different behind the scenes.

UPDATE: Here is a transcript of Palfrey's words toward the end of the interview.

Can you imagine scandal after scandal after scandal coming out every week, every two weeks, this one, that one? It will collapse the administration. That’s why the injunction is not being lifted. There is no reason for Judge Kessler at this point in time, in my opinion, to be continuing this injunction. The ban should be lifted and I should be free to release those records en masse at this moment.

But because of the fact that once these records are released en masse to a multitude of responsible investigators and journalists, be they independents or mainstream, the truth will be gotten to. And in those records there are probably twenty, thirty, fifty, a hundred, possibly more Randall Tobiases, Dick Morrises, Harlan Ullman -- and yes, the name Dick Cheney has been touted on more than one occasion. In those records. Can you imagine? It will be Watergate times all those people.

Palfrey knows the score. Those are, after all, her records. She would not mention Cheney lightly. I don't think that she is merely repeating something she read on Madsen's site.