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The Sydney Morning HeraldJuly 14, 2007 - 7:50AM
With the recent release of reams of phone records from a woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring, bloggers and others online have taken up the cause of hunting for links to elected officials and other prominent people.
Titillated by the prospect of uncovering another name like that of Sen. David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who admitted his number was on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service phone list, bloggers, many of them liberal, are scouring the records and publishing what they find.
"Some top level Republicans are making statements about lifestyles and family values," said Lori Price, editor of the liberal Citizens for Legitimate Government website, explaining her motivation. "We want to see if they are in fact living their lives based on what they are preaching and forcing us to comply with. We see some hypocrisy."
So far, no names matching the caliber of Vitter's have been uncovered, although blogger David Corn, the Washington editor of the liberal weekly The Nation, found a phone number with a Senate prefix from 1999. And the Chicago Tribune reported on one of its blogs earlier this week that the records show a call from the escort service to the newspaper's national desk in Chicago in 2001.
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