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...around on the House floor any longer than they have to. But for Gary Condit, it may be the only sanctuary left. On Thursday afternoon, as the campaign-reform bill was crashing to earth, so did the rest of his life. At the back of the chamber, the California Congressman leaned on the rail, chatting and joking with the men and women who still treat him as a colleague. As the others wandered away one by one, Condit lingered for a while, all alone...
...saturation coverage of the disappearance of Chandra Levy. While authorities seem no closer to finding out what happened to the 24-year-old intern, we seem to have learned a lot about the secret life of a preacher's kid from Oklahoma who grew up to be a California Congressman. He once campaigned under the slogan "Setting a Good Example." It was a dangerous boast for any public official to make, practically a dare to be proved wrong...
...stuff of daytime soaps. The minister just happened to do landscaping work for the Levys. According to the Washington Post, while the Rev. Otis Thomas was caring for the roses by the Levys' backyard pool, Chandra's mother struck up a conversation about her daughter's friendship with the Congressman. Thomas then confided that his own daughter Jennifer, now 26, had had an affair with Condit years ago, and that it had ended badly. Susan Levy immediately called her daughter to warn her. Like many moms, she was told to butt out. Chandra later assured her mother that Condit...
...television, "That's a lie!" Her father also claimed that he had received an anonymous phone call warning him not to talk. When reporters showed up at the family doorstep the day his story went public, they were greeted with a handwritten note: "I never met that Congressman who's involved in all this...I don't even know how both me and my father got mixed up in this." It was signed Jennifer Thomas. Was it really her signature? Had she had the affair, or was her father seeking the spotlight? The FBI took the claims seriously enough...
...Condit team hopes its surprise announcement Friday that the Congressman has taken a polygraph administered by expert Barry D. Colvert, formerly with the FBI, would soothe critics. Condit, said his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, had truthfully answered no to the only questions that mattered: Did he have anything to do with Levy's disappearance? Did he harm her or cause anyone else to? Does he know where she is? But neither police nor the Levys were satisfied. Assistant D.C. police chief Terrance Gainer dubbed the test "self-serving...