D.C. Madam Speaks Out-- Rather Uneventfully

The ABC News telecast on the D.C. Madam last night, as expected, lacked few explosive details on the identities of her clients. A few excerpts from the Brian Ross report:

The phone records trace back to thousands of men, including a career Justice Department prosecutor. There are NASA officials; at least five military officers, including the commander of an Air Force intelligence squadron. Also named by Palfrey is Harlan Ullman, a leading military analyst who wrote the book "Shock and Awe," a concept cited by the Pentagon in planning the war in Iraq.

The phone numbers also track back to Georgetown mansions and prominent CEOs, officials at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and lobbyists both Republican and Democratic. But as usually is the case in Washington, much of it is dull. There were no members of Congress that we could find in these phone records, no White House officials. Quite frankly, but for the few exceptions, most of the men on this list just aren't newsworthy, not even as customers of the D.C. Madam's escort service.

You can read the full transcript of the interview here.