DC Madam Wants To Use National Security Defense

Accused D.C. Madam Cites National Security
Palfrey Asks for Closed Door Hearing to Discuss Muslim Clients

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 4, 2007; 12:34 PM

The woman accused of being the D.C. Madam now argues that the fact that Muslim men used her elite, Washington-based escort service before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have played a role in the government's effort to prosecute her.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey says she might need to divulge classified information that has sensitive national security implications -- perhaps including the identities of Middle Eastern customers -- to defend herself against the charges. She is asking a federal judge for a hearing behind closed doors to discuss the information as it relates to the government's charges.

Prosecutors, who have charged Palfrey with running an illegal prostitution ring in the District from 1993 to 2006, have declined to comment on Palfrey's newest claims. Previously, Palfrey unsuccessfully argued that the attorney general needed to appoint a special counsel to investigate her case because the Justice Department might be covering up information that former prosecutors were customers of her escort service.

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Might not work at all, but she's sure kicking up a lot of smoke... and if the government doesn't cooperate, anything she reveals is the government's fault from there on.

They told her that this dirty laundry needs to be kept under wraps, and that she could justify it however she wanted to, as long as names don't get named, or else.

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Whoops, I mean girl. girl girl girl.

What customers could possibly be related to terrorism/national security?