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New
York Daily News among others is reporting that a tip
received through California website We Tip suggests Chandra is buried
under a parking lot at Fort Lee, Virginia. The Army, FBI, and even
the D.C. police (who were seen at a nearby Toys R' Us giddily buying
detective kits) scurried to confirm the accuracy of the anonymously
submitted letter. "Two things struck investigators: The parking
lot was under construction when Levy vanished May 1, and the organization
that took the tip said it was unusual." The three-page tip was single-spaced
and provides great detail as to how she was killed. The Daily
News quotes head of We Tip, Miriam Brownell, who has 28 years
of experience in anonymous tips, as saying "This looks like a very
definitive tip."
 Will
Fox News psychics change their testimony? Having probably assumed
initially that Chandra was buried in the park whose website she
had visited just hours before disappearing, the psychics said they
could see marsh and trees. Let's see if they stick to their guns
or start claiming they see asphalt.
As
it turns out, "D.C. police are solving violent crimes at a higher
rate than they were before Chandra Levy disappeared three months
ago." A Washington
Post story using statistics demonstrates that homicides
occurring since May have a 40% closure rate compared to the annual
average of 30%. This story shouldn't be too surprising to anyone
familiar with of the Law of Retardation. If each D.C. police officer
assigned to a case lowers the probability of it being solved, then
it so follows, lots of D.C. police officers equals unsolved crime.
Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey outlines a corollary of this brilliant
theorem in the Post, observing, "If a crime-scene officer
has to search Condit's apartment, then sure, he's not doing something
else. The question is, does that not doing something else cripple,
stop, impede some other ongoing issue?" Moreover, the absence of
D.C. police officers apparently facilitates crime solving.
The
New
York Post reports during his fourth interview with investigators,
"Rep. Gary Condit was unable to recall all of his activities on
the day Chandra Levy disappeared." "Law enforcement officials said
the congressman's fourth grilling…failed to clear up a few
lingering questions about his whereabouts on May 1." The timeline
distributed by his lawyers stated Condit had met for drinks with
a lady friend the day the 24-year-old intern disappeared. As it
turns out, that meeting actually occurred the next day.
Apparently,
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is incapable of forgiving Condit
for lying to her about the nature of his relationship with Chandra
Levy. USA
Today quotes her as saying there is nothing "[Condit] can
do to regain his credibility." She went on to say, "He said he did
not have a romantic relationship with her. He lied to me, and that's
something I just can't forgive." Feinstein certainly has had a change
of heart since her beloved Clinton days. It was all of three years
ago, but she might recall Bill Clinton, a person she ardently defended,
who not only lied to the American people about having sexual relations
with Monica Lewinsky, but lied under oath in a court of law.
And
in an excellent column in the New
York Press, Christopher Caldwell sheds light on a few items
of interest that have escaped widespread attention. He details the
"Mafia-like relationship that Condit has with his top staffers,
particularly Mike Lynch in his Modesto office and Mike Dayton in
Washington, both of whom could now face charges for obstruction
of justice." Caldwell reports it was Dayton who drove Condit to
Alexandria to junk the watch from his ex-girlfriend/adulterer, Joleen
McKay. And more interesting, "Dayton seems to have procured McKay
for Condit in the first place. Dayton and McKay had a relationship
in college, and Dayton introduced her to his boss by arranging for
the three of them to go out for dinner, and then not showing up."
Caldwell
also documents another instance when Condit's worrisome participation
on the Intelligence Committee was called into question, this time
it was Dick Gephardt, the man responsible for Condit's placement
on the committee, who was interrogated. "Well, we've had other cases
here where members have been through an ethics investigation and
no one has claimed that they should step aside. When Speaker Gingrich
was in a long ethics process a few years ago, he was privy to all
the information that 's secret in our country…" Adding his
own spin, Caldwell writes, "Yeah, some people take excessive book
advances, and some whack their girlfriends. Live and let live."
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