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 NEW YORK (AP) - At the very least, ABC News' Brian Ross figured he'd find a White House official, prominent lobbyist or a congressman when he was handed a stack of phone records from a Washington, D.C. escort agency.
Yet there wasn't much there. Ross' "20/20" report earlier this month on Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman accused of running a prostitution ring catering to the capital's elite, instead felt like one of those encounters you regret in the morning.
Such are the risks of investigative journalism, where every promising path is as likely to end in a dead end as it is a gold mine.
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