DC Madam and her attorney
© Gettty ImagesDeborah Jeane Palfrey (aka D.C. Madam) and her attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley.
We recently brought you a story by Rachel Maddow regarding the infamous D.C. Madam and her list of clientele — hundreds of Washington D.C. insiders who partook of her "services" by hiring prostitutes from her. Rachel had broken the story that the Madam's lawyer, who still has the original list, is now threatening to release the entire thing despite a gag order requiring him to keep it secret.

Now, s*%t just got real.

The lawyer has guaranteed that the list will come out, it will have information in it that will upset the 2016 election in a severe way by potentially swaying the entire nation away from one candidate — and he intends to make the information public even if he is arrested or otherwise detained. Even if he is dead or incapacitated the list will be released via a "dead man switch."

The way it was explained is that if the lawyer is somehow incapacitated for more than 72 hours, the list will automatically start being distributed to journalists around the world from one of 4 different secret locations in which it's currently stored. Every day he does a process to reset the 72-hour timer, as of now, to prevent it from mailing out before he is ready.

This is seriously starting to read, like some kind of spy novel. We have a list of names, one of which will completely rewrite the 2016 election if made known, and it's now on a timer that the owner is using to safeguard himself from potential harm. Things like this are going to make the 2016 presidential election go down in history as one of the most unusual ones of the modern age, and this is only a small portion of what's been happening.

Watch Rachel's full report on this new development below: