Posted on 12/28/2006 11:19:06 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn't just get mad. He got a lawyer.
Soon, though, the racy tidbits about the sex lives of the two Senate aides faded from the front pages and the gossip pages. Steinbuch accepted a teaching job in Arkansas, leaving Washington and Jessica Cutler's "Washingtonienne" Web log behind.
While sex scandals turn over quickly in this city, lawsuits do not. Steinbuch's case over the embarrassing, sexually charged blog appears headed for an embarrassing, sexually charged trial.
Lurid testimony about spanking, handcuffs and prostitution aside, the Washingtonienne case could help establish whether people who keep online diaries are obligated to protect the privacy of the people they interact with offline.
Cutler, a former aide to Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, says she created the blog in 2004 to keep a few friends up to date on her social life. Like a digital version of the sex-themed banter from a "Sex and the City" episode, Cutler described the thrill and tribulations of juggling sexual relationships with six men.
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The picture to the left (link below) is Robert Steinbuch, who was one of Jessica Cutler’s six sex partners. Below is the write-up about him found at TaxTalkToday:
Robert Steinbuch serves the Internal Revenue Service as the Deputy Senior Counselor to the Commissioner. As such, he is an advisor to the Senior Counselor and assists the Senior Counselor in communicating the goals and policies of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner. Additionally, Robert oversees the Office of the Director of Practice and works on the revision of Circular 230, 31 C.F.R. 10, (the rules governing practice before the I.R.S.)
http://tinyurl.com/yllp6q
The profligates on his staff remind me of the College Republicans I knew in Boulder, who seemed to approve licentious behavior so they could still be cool despite their conservative economic opinions.
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