In an e-mail sent from Jeane Palfrey to Citizens for Legitimate Government, Lori Price, Judge Kessler has lifted the injunction on the phone records.
Judge Kessler has lifted the injunction on the phone records.' From Judge Kessler's Order: "Defendant in this case possesses a list of telephone numbers (the "List") that has generated much controversy and speculation. The Government has twice applied to this Court ex parte for Temporary Retraining Orders ("TROs") preventing Defendant from selling the List or from distributing copies for free. The Court granted those applications, in order to preserve the status quo, and, therefore, held a hearing to give Defendant an opportunity to respond. Upon consideration of the pleadings,the applicable statutes and case law, and the oral argument, the Court concludes the Defendant's request to quash the TROs should be granted."
Jeane Palfrey, the D.C Madam, has vowed to give her list of names and phone numbers to any journalist, blogger or private detective who wants them. The list totals 10,000 names, of which 100 are prominent Washington officials.
In an interview with the The Times Herald Palfrey states that the "White House will implode over the scandals".
"If what I'm saying is true and this goes to the heart of the Bush administration and the corruption the last several years, then yeah, I'll have an army behind me," Palfrey said.
Palfrey almost didn't have the phone records.
In what Palfrey calls an illegal search warrant last October while she was in Germany, the feds raided her historic Vallejo home, seizing assets and other items allegedly used to operate her escort
business. Palfrey still gets a kick out of the fact investigators missed the phone records, which were sitting in neatly marked file boxes in the basement, labeled by year.
"You would die if you saw how many times they walked by them sitting in full view," she said.
It was those high-profile client names, Palfrey says, that kept investigators interested in her.
Could something finally stick to the Bush Administration and their cronies to bring them down. I'm cynical as I've seen so many things bounce off of these people; how many scandals have we had and nothing has ever come of it? Does anyone remember Jeff Gannon/Guckert and the media's yawn?
Palfrey's says this list will help to "get to the bottom of all the corruption".
"These are people who either violated the public trust by using the service or they have endangered the public welfare by
using the service," she said,
pointing to "religious right goody-two-shoes" who she calls "hypocrites." She calls her situation just another Bush administration scandal, like the Scooter Libby trial and firing of the U.S. attorneys.
Palfrey says these Washington insiders could have jeopardized national security because
some could be blackmailed by other countries' intelligence
agencies or terrorist groups
to reveal their "sexual dalliances."
If released, Palfrey said she wants media, bloggers and others to cull through the phone lists "finding tidbits of information."
"I'm going to get this story out if hell freezes over."
Here is link to Judge Kessler's ruling (PDF) lifting the government's restraining order not to have the list publicly released.
Raw Story has more on the release.
UPDATE: Thanks to woowoose here is the link to Jeane's site so we can apply to get the records.