Bush official linked to call-girl probe

Maybe you've already heard something. Or maybe we'll get the word in the next few hours. But I can't think of a surer sign that the administration will be releasing some information later today that it would rather we all ignored. Who knows? It could be a post-Gonzales testimony DoJ document dump. It might be word of another probe into Rove. Maybe the RNC will be turning over some e-mails. But you can take it to the bank - something's coming down the pike.

WASHINGTON - Randall Tobias, head of the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, abruptly resigned Friday after his name surfaced in an investigation into a high-priced call-girl ring, said two people in a position to know the circumstances of his departure.

At the July 2004 International AIDS Conference in Bangkok,
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias attempted to deflect
charges from
AIDS activists that the United States had substituted “abstinence until
marriage” programs for science-based HIV prevention strategies that
included
correct and consistent condom use.  Tobias stated that the United
States’ HIV prevention message had been and continued to be “ABC,”
which stands for “Abstain,

Be faithful, use Condoms,” in that order.  He went on to say,

“Abstinence works, being faithful works, condoms work.  Each has its place.”  Three

months earlier, however, Tobias had stated that “statistics show that condoms

really have not been very effective.”  He added, “It's been the principal

prevention device for the last twenty years, and I think one needs only to look

at what's happening with the infection rates in the world to recognize that it

has not been working.