Who will watch Cindy Adams's adorable Yorkies if she goes to the hoosegow to protect her source in the D.C. Madam case?

Tuesday in D.C. District Court, "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey filed a motion to subpoena the New York Post's elder stateswoman of gossip, who, as Radar reported in late August, received and published information about the case via her column that was not publicly available and was under court seal.

Adams wrote that Palfrey plans to dump her criminal lawyer, former Monica Lewinsky attorney Preston Burton, and hire another to challenge prostitution laws themselves. Only Palfrey, her lawyer, and the prosecution could have known Palfrey planned the move, and this time, the alleged madam says she didn't blab, especially not to the likes of Cindy. Her new motion claims that leakers within the federal government, which is prosecuting the case against Palfrey, are trying to use the "media outlets to disseminate or spin misleading information about Jeane."

"I want to know exactly who leaked this very not-for-public-consumption information onto Cindy," Palfrey tells Radar. "This matter is a very serious criminal case, which as a gossip columnist, she has no business involving herself—especially when her participation includes dissemination of information that could possibly hurt my defense."

Palfrey says the episode "only further demonstrates" the government's willingness to take underhanded tactics in prosecuting her case.

Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice, told Radar in August that Palfrey's allegation is "ridiculous" and that no one in the government leaked to Adams. Montgomery Blair Sibley, Palfrey's lawyer, said "such an event would be a serious violation of prosecutorial ethics and be grounds for dismissal for outrageous conduct by the government."

"Cindy Adams could be held in contempt of court and incarcerated if she refused to reveal her source for that information," Sibley added.

The motion filed Tuesday would require Adams to appear and testify in court. As of press time, Adams had not returned requests for comment.

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