An example of what is soon to swamp Washington, although sex and power are indeed nothing new. From the Washington Post story on the DC escort service.
On Friday, Randall L. Tobias resigned as deputy secretary of state
one day after confirming to Brian Ross of ABC that he had patronized
the Pamela Martin firm. Speaking yesterday on “Good Morning America,”
Ross said Tobias told him Tobias’s number was on Palfrey’s phone
records because he had called “to have gals come over to the condo to
give me a massage.” There had been “no sex,” Ross quoted Tobias as
saying, and that recently he has used another service, “with Central
American gals,” for massages.Tobias, who is 65 and married, was
director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S.
Agency for International Development. He previously held a top job in
the Bush administration overseeing AIDS relief, in which he promoted
abstinence and a policy requiring grant recipients to swear they oppose
prostitution.
As the story unfolds there will be some nervous people in the world of the body politic.
