Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who is acting as her own lawyer, said Harlan Ullman, a
senior associate with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, "is
only one of dozens of such officials" who will be exposed as she prepares her
defence.
Ullman declined to talk about the claim in a brief telephone interview with The
Associated Press last night, saying "the allegations are beneath the dignity of
a comment."
He was the primary author of a 1996 report that coined the phrase "shock and
awe," which calls for a massive attack of precision air power that
psychologically destroys an enemy's will to fight as much as it destroys the
physical ability to do so.
The 50-year-old Palfrey was indicted last month by a federal grand jury on
charges of running a high-class call girl ring from her home in Vallejo,
California. She has denied the escort service engaged in prostitution.
In court records, prosecutors estimate that her business, Pamela Martin and
Associates, generated more than $US2 million ($2.42 million) in revenue over 13
years, with more than 130 women employed at various times to serve thousands of
clients at $US200 ($240) to $US300 ($363) a session.
Palfrey had threatened to sell phone records that would identify 10,000 clients
to pay for her criminal defence, but a federal judge ordered her not to release
them. But Palfrey gave them to ABC News before the order took effect.
Since federal officials have seized her assets in a civil case involving the
business, Palfrey argued in court papers yesterday for the judge to reconsider
her request for $US500,000 ($604,265) to hire an attorney to replace the public
defender.
She contends that she needs a high-profile lawyer because of the powerful
forces that are lined up against her and her need to subpoena Ullman and
others.
Palfrey hopes the customers will testify on her behalf that her escorts did not
engage in prostitution.
Prosecutors have accused Palfrey of trying to intimidate potential witnesses by
exposing them publicly.
Ullman's lawyer, Mike Mukasey, also declined comment, saying the allegations
did not deserve a response.
Palfrey said she has 21 kilograms of phone records that could expose thousands
of clients.
Her civil lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, said he gave those records to ABC so
it could assist in identifying clients who could testify on her behalf.
ABC said it planned to air a story on Palfrey on its prime-time news program
20/20 next month.
