Dana Milbank has some fun with the legal defense being mounted by Montgomery Blair Sibley on behalf of the notorious DC Madam:
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler’s courtroom yesterday experienced the kind of harmonic convergence generally reserved for those occasions when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
In a legal pleading that may have set a new standard for inventiveness, the lawyer for the alleged D.C. Madam argued that his client is a victim of — you guessed it — the scandal over the firing of U.S. attorneys. The federal charges that Deborah Jeane Palfrey ran a prostitution racket, her lawyer said, were cooked up to fit the “political purposes” of former attorney general Alberto Gonzales and his now-former aides Monica Goodling, Kyle Sampson and the like.
Just what these “purposes” would be was unclear, for the case has ensnared from political Washington only Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana and then-Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias. But this bit of logic did not trouble the madam’s lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley.
