Posted at the Wayne Madsen Report

April 30, 2007

The Multiple Sex Scandals That Could Sink the Bush Administration and the GOP

From Baghdad’s Camp Cropper, where a major US military detention center is located, to the White House, Pentagon, and offices along Washington DC’s “Gucci Gulf” K Street corridor, a series of major sex scandals threaten to bring yet another body blow on the Bush administration and the Republican Party.

In Baghdad, US Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele, who was in charge of high-value detainees at the Camp Cropper detention facility, is under a UCMJ Article 32 investigation for maintaining a relationship with the daughter of a detainee, using an unauthorized cell phone, being “sloppy” with classified information, but more importantly, possessing pornography, including videos.

The investigation of Steele may have something to do with the homo-erotic materials, including photos and videos, spirited from the Abu Ghraib prison, some of which were released to the media. On November 18, 2005, WMR reported:

“There is good reason for the embarrassment of the Pentagon in the [Abu Ghraib] affair. The orders to take the sexually-oriented photos and videos, some of which involve teenage Iraqi boys and girls and sodomization by their guards, came directly from a pedophile and closeted male homosexual ring operating in the White House, according to the intelligence sources. Copies of the tapes and photos were sent directly to the White House for the entertainment of senior members of the Bush White House, including officials in the Vice President's office and the Executive Office of the President.

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When the photos at Abu Ghraib became public, the senior military command structure in Iraq ‘went nuts,’ according to an individual who witnessed the cover-up of the affair. ‘They ordered an immediate policy of denial about details of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib,’ said the source. The source added that senior officers were disgusted that lower ranking guards were prosecuted and jailed when the order for the mistreatment came directly from the White House.

All this makes the case of Lt. Col. Steele even more curious. If he is aware of the use of Abu Ghraib and other detention centers for filmed sexual misconduct for entertainment purposes, the Pentagon charge of possession of pornography may have something to do with previous cover-ups of serial sexual misconduct relating to military prisoners.

The use of military prisons in Iraq and civilian youth camps in Texas and Florida by the GOP for sexual exploitation is not the only sex scandal that stands to bring down the Bush administration and the GOP. Beyond the male congressional page sex scandal that enmeshed GOP congressmen from Mark Foley to then-Speaker Dennis Hastert and the presence in the White House Press Corps of a reporter linked to Christian Right financiers who also ran a male prostitution escort service, the Brent Wilkes, Duke Cunningham, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo prostitute scandal involving Shirlington Limousine delivering prostitutes to the Watergate and Washington hotels to service top GOP officials and CIA personnel at “poker parties,” and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s sweetheart high-paying job for his girlfriend, comes news that ABC News is in possession of Deborah Palfrey’s (“the DC Madam’s) client phone number list.

One name already leaked from the list was Randall Tobias, the Deputy Secretary of State for International Assistance and administrator of the US Agency for International Development. Tobias, who is on record favoring abstinence to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, resigned suddenly after his name was leaked. Tobias also said prostitution is a leading cause of AIDS although he admitted to paying one of Palfrey’s women for a “massage.” ABC News has already reported that a number of Washington VIPs have been Palfrey’s clients, including White House and Pentagon officials, top DC lobbyists and lawyers, and, as reported some weeks ago to WMR, some members of Congress are also implicated in DC’s latest “Hookergate.”

Add the Palfrey list to further revelations from former Nevada gubernatorial candidate and one-time domina Leola McConnell about the past sexual homosexual exploits of George W. Bush and former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe, as well as the peculiar Las Vegas appetites of “Morality Czar” William Bennett (whose brother Robert is serving as Wolfowitz’s attorney in the World Bank’s “Concubinegate” scandal, and we yet see the downfall of the neo-con Republican Party as a result of a LMD, “Libido of Mass Destruction.”