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From August 26, 2001 edition of Newsweek (had to pay to access it on the web)Michael Isikoff interviewed Condit:
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Isikoff:
Was there any issue [between you at] that time?

Condit:
I never had a cross word with her. The kind of conversation we had would be--[when Timothy] McVeigh was executed and Juan Garza was executed. She seemed to have a lot of interest in those two things and a lot of more interest in them than I did. So she would talk about that.

Isikoff:
You talked about McVeigh--

Condit:
Yeah, because she was part of--she had something to do with distribution of information.... She might have called and said, 'Hey, I read they are building a new federal prison down in your district and they are going to employ 350 people,' and blah, blah, blah. And I might call her back and she might share information with me.... She read all the local newspapers on the Internet. She might call up and say, 'What's going on with that crazy mayor in Modesto? He sounds nuts. Let's talk about it.' So I know that may sound sort of mundane to you, but that's sort of the way the conversations took place. There was really no heavy--I mean, we might get into a philosophical discussion about Israel or foreign aid or something like that, but that was pretty unusual.

Isikoff:
But how about personal stuff, her personal life, her private life?

Condit:
She was very focused on her career--actually, I was advising her to slow down a little bit and not push herself so hard in terms of whether she had to make a decision about going to law school or she wanted to go to work for the FBI or CIA. We talked about that, but she was very focused on her career and what she was going to do. I actually thought that, which I think she thought, too, when she came and told me that morning that she had lost her possibility to get a job, she thought the next job that opened up she was going to get.

Isikoff:
And did you want her to come back to D.C.?

Condit:
I wanted her to do what she wanted to do.
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It struck me as odd at the time that Condit said "when McVeigh was executed" as though McVeigh had been executed BEFORE Chandra's death.

It struck me as odd at the time that Condit said "when McVeigh was executed" as though McVeigh had been executed BEFORE Chandra's death.

That is an interesting catch, glorygirl. Also, interesting that this thread on the Saudis connects potential dots to McVeigh, the BOP, Chandra Levy and Gary Condit.

What an excellent thread.