-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Rep. Condit Criticized in Case of Missing Intern By Lori Santos WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The congressman caught up in the case of a missing intern withheld crucial information from police and should be a suspect in her disappearance, a former federal prosecutor said on Sunday. Police questioned Rep. Gary Condit (news - bio - voting record), the 53-year-old Democrat from California, for a third time and said on Saturday he had answered all their questions and was not a suspect in the disappearance of Chandra Levy, who was last seen on April 30. But Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told the ``Fox News Sunday'' program he believed Condit should be a suspect because he did not disclose his intimate relationship with the intern. DiGenova, a Republican who handled many high profile cases, including that of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, also said he was ``absolutely stunned'' that city police had not searched Condit's apartment. ``I cannot believe that that was not one of the first things that police did not ask him to do, especially in light of the fact that the congressman obviously lied to them in the first two interviews, and it wasn't until the third interview that he finally told the truth and admitted that he had a relationship with this missing person,'' diGenova said. ``He withheld that information from the police over a number of weeks. It's absolutely outrageous. It is indefensible,'' diGenova said. ``...He should be a suspect, under all the facts and circumstances,'' he added. On CNN's ``Late Edition,'' former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh also asserted Condit had ``not been completely forthcoming'' until the third interview and said the delay likely damaged the investigation. ``That's two months later, all that time has been lost,'' said Thornburgh, who led the Justice Department (news - web sites) during the first Bush administration. Though police would not comment on the nature of the relationship between the congressman, who is married, and the 24-year-old intern, Levy's aunt said on Friday Condit was involved in a romantic relationship with Levy. It was widely reported that Condit acknowledged to police investigators on Friday evening he had an affair with Levy that was continuing at the time she disappeared. But Abbe Lowell, Condit's attorney, declined on Sunday to describe the relationship between the congressman and the intern but asserted Condit had been completely forthcoming to police. ``The congressman has answered their questions each time to the best of his ability,'' Lowell told ABC's ``This Week.'' Photos Reuters Photo Lowell also said Condit has not been subpoenaed for anything by police nor had authorities asked to search his apartment. ``If they need something that we can help them with, we'll get it to them,'' he said. ``But they haven't asked us for anything at this point.'' Lowell also sidestepped questions about whether Levy might have been pregnant at the time of her disappearance. ``I certainly know the questions the police asked the congressman, I know his answers. And we're not getting into that,'' he told the CBS ``Face the Nation'' program. ``This is a situation in which the congressman has told the police everything, has been cooperative, has been said never to be a suspect, and anything about what he's told them is not a matter of the public, it's a matter of the private,'' Lowell said. Condit has been at the center of a furor surrounding Levy's disappearance shortly after she finished up a government internship in Washington. He represents Levy's home town of Modesto in California. Many of his fellow lawmakers urged him to be more forthcoming. ``The most critical thing that you need to do in this situation... is get the facts out. And it's critical that he does that,'' Rep. Martin Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, told NBC's ''Meet the Press.'' Rep. Christopher Shays (news - bio - voting record), a Connecticut Republican, said, ``It's clearly a lesson -- you have got to tell the truth. If you say you didn't have an affair and you had an affair, that's wrong.'' And Rep. Dick Armey, the House Republican leader, said the case could come before the House ethics committee if a complaint were filed and predicted it might be hard for Condit to survive politically. But Armey told ``Fox News Sunday'' that Condit should not step down at this time. ``We've got more speculation, it seems to me, than we do fact,'' he said. ``I'm still not convinced that he did anything.'' *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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