Deputy Sec Of State Resigns...Was Client Of DC Escort Service

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.

Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the ambassador for the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.

A State Department press release late Friday afternoon said only he was leaving for "personal reasons."

On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the "Pamela Martin and Associates" escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." Tobias, who is married, said there had been "no sex," and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages.

Tobias' private cell number was among thousands of numbers listed in the telephone records provided to ABC News by Jeane Palfrey, the woman dubbed the "D.C. Madam," who is facing the federal charges. In an interview to be broadcast on "20/20" next Friday, Palfrey says she intends to call Tobias and a number of her other prominent D.C. clients to testify at her trial.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/senior_official.html

:rofl:

Sure .... men don't get "boners" when pretty young women who are lightly
dressed rub them.

Oh well ... they told us bush won 2 times and Iraq was responsible for 9/11.

and pressed to make sure it was part of the AIDs grants.

Want to take bets he didn't take his own advice.

Don't you just love those Republic "family values" crowd? Why would a massage force someone to resign? :eyes:

while America is going down the drain.

"....Tobias, who is married, said there had been "no sex," and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages."

Ok, so THAT explains why they want illegal immigrants to come to this country and 'pick our lettuce.'

I so get it know!
:think:

Condi is out shopping for shoes while being disinclined to honor a subpoena.

This guy is out procuring escorts...

No wonder people say that department is a mess.

gets immunity from Waxman or the DOJ cries uncle.