Posted on 05/29/2002 5:25:09 AM PDT by Starmaker
With the dawn to dark media hype and daily pronouncements from the Washington Police Department last summer over Chandra Levy´s disappearance and her supposed relationship with Congressman Gary Condit, why, do you suppose, everyone sort of "forgot" to mention that two women were attacked while jogging in Rock Creek Park?
And, why, do you suppose, it took the Washington Police Department TEN WEEKS to decide to search Rock Creek Park, when they had in their possession all that time Chandra´s computer showing her last action on it was accessing the Rock Creek Park Web site's home page?
Even after finally searching Rock Creek Park, which, we find now, took place only after the second girl was attacked at knife point by Ingmar Guandeque, who was arrested in July 2001 and convicted of assault on the two women and sentenced to 10 years in prison on February 8, 2002. Guandeque assaulted the two women on May 14, 2001 and July 1, 2001. The Washington Times reported after Chandra´s remains were found: "Both women were assaulted near Broad Branch Road, which is where Miss Levy's remains were found."
So, why did the Washington Police finally, in mid-July 2001 decide out of the blue to do a perfunctory search of Rock Creek Park? Could it POSSIBLY have been connected to the arrest of Guandeque and his admission that he attacked two women at knife point in the Park? At exactly that point in time DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey told CNN: "Right now we just don't have any clues that bring us any closer to finding Chandra,…"
The admission of a man who attacked two women at knife point in the same area Chandra Levy´s computer indicated she was researching the day of her disappearance is not a clue? What is Chief Ramsey´s definition of "clue?"
By July 2001 the media, and the D.C. police, were in full pursuit of Gary Condit, and Levy´s parents were demanding that he be given a lie detector test. The Police had leaked a claim that Condit "admitted" to a romantic affair with Chandra Levy, making him, at least in the eyes of the public, the prime suspect in the case. In spite of that, Condit TOOK a lie detector test and easily passed it.
ABC News reported on July 14, 2001 that the test was administered by Barry Colvert, a former FBI special agent who had conducted 3,000 polygraph exams and (taught other agents how to do it. At that point in time, Guandeque was in custody. No mention was made to the public about his arrest. Did Chief Ramsey and the Levys demand a lie detector test be given to Guandeque? Somehow, I doubt he would have taken it, under the circumstances.
In spite of all the clues leading the police to a thorough search of the Broad Branch Road area, until her body was found accidentally, the D.C. Police, according to their own admission, DID NOT SEARCH the steep slope below Broad Branch Road where Levy´s remains were found.
Does this strike anyone else besides me as incredibly inept? On July 7, 2001, CNN reported that "Rep. Gary Condit told Washington police he had a romantic relationship with 24-year-old former intern Chandra Levy, police sources who requested anonymity told CNN." This was six days after the police had Guandeque in their sights as a person who randomly attacked women in Rock Creek Point.
Was the "leak" intended to take pressure off the Washington Police? CNN´s report of a "romantic relationship" has since been adopted by the media, and much of the public, as an actual admission of adultery by Condit. Yet, all we have is a self-serving rumor out of the Washington police department. In an interview with Connie Chung of ABC, I reported on last August, Condit said he and Levy had a "close relationship" and he stoutly denied having any romantic relationship with Ann Marie Smith, the stewardess who claimed she had a "year long affair" with Condit.
What really happened between Chandra Levy and Gary Condit? Who knows? And, why is the same media that told us private lives are none of our business when it was President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now so uptight over what kind of "close relationship" Condit and Levy had?
As a woman, the situation has all the earmarks of a one-sided romantic interest – with Chandra chasing Gary Condit, a married man. Chandra´s aunt, Linda Zamsky, said that Levy told her "she and Condit sometimes spent entire weekends at his apartment. She described conversations between the two of marriage and having a baby together after Condit left politics in five years."
Condit is 54 years old and has two grown children. Chandra was 24 and obviously looking for a husband and thinking about having a family. This sounds to me like a totally one-sided pipe dream of Chandra´s. In her scenario, Condit would be 60 years old when he broke up his 40 year old marriage, wrecked HIS family, to marry Chandra and have a baby.
How many 54-year-old busy, successful men who have been married to the same woman for thirty-six years and have grown children are talking about having babies with some chick younger than their children when they are over sixty and retired? None, in my acquaintance.
The combination has, of course, destroyed the career of Gary Condit and has attempted to destroy his family. It is to his credit, and to the credit of his very supportive wife and children that the Condit family has resisted public pressure to turn on Gary Condit. Special credit should go to Condit´s children, Chad and Cadee Condit, who worked for Governor Gray Davis.
Chad, 34, worked as an assistant to Davis on agricultural and legislative issues related to California's Central Valley. The job paid $110,000 a year. Cadee Condit, 25, was a special assistant overseeing day-to-day operations at Davis's private office. She was paid $52,000 a year Both of the younger Condits quit their high paying jobs in protest over Governor Davis´ snide remarks about their father. In their letter of resignation they wrote: "You may remember our father's strong public support, endorsement and organizational effort for you during the bleakest moments of your 1998 primary campaign. ... It is that kind of loyalty to friends that has been the hallmark of his career and is a standard we strive to live up to. Continued employment with the governor's office after your public statement regarding our father would undercut that standard."
I think Gray Davis is wrong on just about every count, and I am not a political supporter of Gary Condit. However, any man who has grown children with enough character to resign high paying jobs in support of their father, has a father who has earned their support, a point universally overlooked by a contemptuous media.
I believe Gary Condit – not the Washington police rumors, not the media, not the women trying to ruin Condit. I believe Gary Condit because his family, especially his children, believe in him.
To comment on this article or express your opinion directly to the author, you are invited to e-mail Mary at mmostert@bannerofliberty.com .
Ted Bundy didn't have a high profile political career. As Clinton has shown, adultery is not a career killer, but covering up the adultery is. That is what Condit is guilty of. He had no part in this murder. What would be his MO? Preventing a known secret from leaking out to a public already jaded by Clinton?
There are enough homeless manurebags running around loose in that park.
I only follow this for the entertainment value. I don't meant that anyone's death is funny, not at all. It's the media treatment that's making it so.
It seems the entire family was behind her affair with a Congressman. Her aunt even told her how to arrange his closets. The fact that he was married didn't seem to bother them at all. The first thing they talked about in the early press conferences was her affair with Condit. The first thing they talked about after the body was found was...Condit!
Gimme a break!--did this silly woman grow up in a convent?
Totally incorrect on support of Condit. Condit did himself in by not owning up to his relationship. Condit is either directly linked to Levy's death, or one of the most incredibly unlucky schmucks to come down the pike in a long time. I think he told Chandra he'd meet her at the Kringle Mansion & did so. If he didn't kill her or have her killed, then perhaps it was a random attack after his meeting her at the manse and he was too afraid he'd be the likely subject if he told police he'd met her there just before she went missing. So he's either a murderer or incredibly unlucky. But "innocent," he ain't. Just my 2 cents.
I wonder the same thing, but I also wonder why with all the jogging, attacking, etc. going on on this road, why NO ONE came acrossed a body (or the smell of one). If Chandra's body was killed on the spot where she was found, then there is no way in heck that it would have been "over looked".
a shallow grave does not do much to hide the stench - ask any police officer or ME
One of the best things I like about FP is outstanding and very funny photographs. This one should be nominated for the FP Hall of Fame.
Good job and thanks!
No, Ms. Mostert, what you are ignoring is the incredibly slick, slimy nature of Condit. That man and Bill Clinton are two peas in the same pod: soulless, hedonistic, sociopaths; pathological liars.
He has managed to pull the wool over your eyes, Ms. Mostert, but don't feel too bad about it. He fooled hundreds of thousands of voters...........repeatedly. He has his kids snowed (I guarantee you that those kids' mom had MUCH more to do with their upbringing and character than "dad"; you can absolutely bank on that). This is a man into kinky sex, not just sex with younger women in a vain attempt to reclaim his lost youth (and she wouldn't have given him a second glance if he'd been a carpenter by trade..........that tell you something?).
Condit cloaked himself in the mantle of "defender of family values" while he blithely f**ked anything in a skirt that would hold still long enough. The sordid details of his "lifestyle" have been publicized enough by now; I'm sure we've all read them. THAT, Ms. Mostert, is ample evidence of a supreme liar; a consummate con man............exactly like Bill Clinton.
I pride myself on my ability to "read" people, Ms. Mostert, and I'm damned good at it. My livelihood depends on it. The first time I laid eyes on Bill Clinton, he fairly screamed "dirtbag; slimeball; shake my hand, but count your fingers afterward." When I saw Condit's interview with Connie Chung, I had exactly the same reaction.
I can read a liar a mile away............and Clinton AND Condit are liars. In fact, Condit is far better at it than Clinton (who was so transparent in his lying it was worse than pathetic; those who didn't see it chose not to see it.........he's that bad at it).
.......and just like Bill Clinton, I am not sure it will ever be proven, but I'm convinced that both men are directly responsible for the deaths of others. They are too effeminate, weak, and cowardly to "do the dirty deed" themselves, but you can DAMNED well rest assured, once and for all, that these bastards had others killed by surrogates for the slimiest of reasons: saving their sorry political a**es.
Was she aware of the misleading (false) timeline?
Lol... classic!
My recollection is that when computer activity was publicly revealed the police were asked if they had searched Rock Creek Park in particular because Chandra had been at that website. I further recall they seemed to not take this bit of info as a serious lead, but commenced the more "intense" search using cadets, etc. under the pressure of public awareness of Chandra's web activity. I still remember the contemporary reaction to the "search" as a joke and many people believeing it was entirely possible she was, in fact, there at the park.
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