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To: Neocon who wrote (1388)	7/26/2001 9:43:24 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1857

It's allusive enough to make me regret not taking more English Lit and philosophy in college. -gg

To: Neocon who wrote (1388)	7/26/2001 9:45:05 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1857

Here's another news item on Condit's continuing heel-dragging in the Levy investigation. I'm getting really angry at the man. From today's NYT: July 26, 2001 Condit Turns Down Request to Speak to Private Detectives By JAMES RISEN ASHINGTON, July 25 — Representative Gary A. Condit has rejected a request from lawyers for the family of Chandra Ann Levy to meet with private investigators hired to help find the missing government intern, lawyers for the Levy family and those for Mr. Condit said. Billy Martin, the Washington lawyer representing Ms. Levy's parents, said in an interview today that, in a July 9 letter, he asked Mr. Condit's Washington lawyer, Abbe Lowell, to make Mr. Condit available to meet with two private detectives working with him to investigate Ms. Levy's disappearance. Mr. Martin said the two investigators are former homicide detectives for Washington's Metropolitan Police Department. But he said that in a July 13 letter, Mr. Lowell declined to allow Mr. Condit, Democrat of California, to be interviewed by the investigators. Mr. Martin added that the rejection came despite the fact that the Washington police chief, Charles Ramsey, had said that the police would not object to having the private investigators interview Mr. Condit. A police spokesman said this evening that he could not comment on the matter. The Washington police are leading the law enforcement investigation into Ms. Levy's disappearance, and police officials have already interviewed Mr. Condit three times. Mr. Condit is expected to be interviewed for a fourth time in the case by the F.B.I. and the police, perhaps this week. "I don't see that there is any usefulness in having Mr. Condit sit down with private investigators," Mr. Lowell said in an interview. But Mr. Lowell added that he made clear in his letter to Mr. Martin that he was willing to provide the answers, on behalf of Mr. Condit, to any questions from Mr. Martin and the investigators. Mr. Lowell said he did not receive a response. "If Mr. Martin and the Levys are interested in having the information, as opposed to having a media event, they could call me and we could have done it," Mr. Lowell said. "But they never followed up. I don't know if they are interested in getting the information, or in having some other event to put the congressman in the news." The dispute over a possible interview with the private investigators is the latest in what appears to be an escalating fight between the Levy and Condit camps. Ms. Levy was from Mr. Condit's Congressional district, and Mr. Condit has said publicly that they were friends. Members of Ms. Levy's family have said that Ms. Levy was having an affair with Mr. Condit, who is married. Police officials have emphasized that Mr. Condit is not a suspect in the case, which they still describe as a missing persons investigation. There is no evidence linking Mr. Condit to Ms. Levy's disappearance, law enforcement officials have said. Mr. Condit has granted the police interviews. Members of his staff have also given interviews to the F.B.I. and the police. Mr. Condit and his lawyers have also agreed to allow the police to search Mr. Condit's Washington apartment without a search warrant. The results from that search have not yet been released publicly. Ms. Levy, 24, who had been working in Washington as an intern at the Bureau of Prisons, was last seen on April 30. She was said to be planning to leave Washington to return home to California and then attend her graduation ceremonies from graduate school at the University of Southern California. "The Levy family is very disappointed in the actions of Congressman Condit," Mr. Martin said today. "We think that the public has had a chance to see and make their own determination about his level of cooperation. The family maintains that he was very slow about coming forward, and they are still not sure if he has told all he knows." Mr. Martin said that the private investigators have been examining a timeline that Mr. Condit has compiled of his whereabouts around the time of Ms. Levy's disappearance. While Ms. Levy was last seen on the evening of April 30, police believe she was in her Washington apartment on May 1, because an examination of her computer showed that she was online from about 9:30 a.m. to about 1 p.m. on that day. In the Condit timeline, first made public in June by ABC News, Mr. Condit said that at 12:30 p.m. on May 1, he met with Vice President Dick Cheney at the White House. He returned to his office that afternoon for meetings and phone conversations with his constituents, had a doctor's appointment at 5 p.m., voted on the House floor at 6:30 p.m., and then met with a reporter at a restaurant in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood of Washington, near his home. He and his wife later had dinner at home.