They Weren't Escorts, Just Gals with Great Hands!

From CNN…”A top State Department official resigned Friday after revealing to ABC News that he had been a client of the alleged "D.C. madam's" escort service. A State Department official, on condition of anonymity, confirmed to CNN the reason for Randall Tobias' departure as director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The State Department said that Tobias, 65, resigned for "personal reasons."

ABC reported on its Web site that Tobias, 65, said Thursday that he had used Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." He told the network that there was no sex involved.” Tobias served as Bush's first AIDS czar. In that post, he promoted abstinence and faithfulness to help prevent the global spread of AIDS. At his most recent job in the State Department he was responsible for combating international prostitution.

I guess Mr. Tobias was conducting some in-depth ethnographic research to learn more about ways to prevent AIDS and to combat prostitution. After all they were only gals not women. Mr. Tobias indicated that calling those gals over was “like ordering pizza.”

I’ll have the blonde with extra cheese and anchovies. Make sure she brings her whip and some dipping sauce.

Update 1: Brian Ross of ABC News reported Monday morning on the mounting scandal from the records of the so-called "DC madam." Ross said many prominent DC figures can be found on the list of clients for the escort service, which has emerged in the course of the trial of its operator, Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

"It's a long list, we've been going through the phone records for the last four years provided for us by Jean Palfrey," Ross reported on Monday morning. "There are some very prominent people, lobbyists, lawyers, members of the military, other people in the Bush administration."

That's heckeva lot of people ordering pizza!