Palfrey Update #22 -- Jeane Asserts "Honey Pot" Defense

I received an email update from Ms. Palfrey's civil attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley. Here is his email:


Greetings:

At the hearing last Friday, Judge Kessler adjourned the matter without setting a date to allow her time to consider whether she would allow me to appear as Jeane's counsel in this matter. Briefing on that issue is schedule to be completed by September 26.


However, not wanting to delay this matter further, Jeane has filed pro se this morning a pleading of note. That pleading explains the factual basis for invoking the "Classified Information Procedures Act" and is entitled " Memorandum of Fact In Support of Motion for Pretrial Conference to Consider Matters Relating to Classified Information". That Memo details Jeane's basis for raising the "Honey Pot" defense in which she alleges that the United States Government has been directly or indirectly benefiting from the operation of her service by monitoring her customers and is thus equitably barred from prosecuting her. In that Memo, Jeane identifies not only already-known customers of the escort service -- Senator Vitter, Randall Tobias of USAID and Harland Ullman -- but also confirms for the first time that another individual with very high government security clearance -- Ronald Roughead of SAIC -- was also a customer. This nexus of CIA backed USAID, Senator Vitter on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and two beltway bandits appears to be more than a coincidence. An fine article detailing these relationships can be found at Yardbird.com.



Ronald Roughead of SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) was a former Army Colonel Defense who took over in Iraq from Bob Teasdale. He was employed as of 2005. Also, Roughead's testimony before House Permant Select Committee on Intelligence identifying him as an employee of SACI involved with Iraq propaganda efforts by US. So, what is the connection between Roughead, Tobias, and Vitter? I will explore that and Mr. Sibley's latest information in the next article in Newsinkling.