So Charles Manson still lives as do his little playmates - two of whom, one had father at Pentagon, and the other had father at NASA and while in prison, Manson played with Jimmy Carter's nephew - and all the time - well little Squeaky Frome still on the outside wrote Manson to say Hi, I know how to save the Redwoods and gets a gun and tries to shoot Gerald Ford...an election year, you know. So McVeigh was put away pretty fast after being held so long where he mingled with above all people, the Unibomber. This FBI at this point is almost laughable....the movie Hannibal, oh boy this individual was involved in this one - but remember the Unibomber, the profile put out by the FBI. First of all, thus sayeth the FBI Expert - this man, this Code Name Unibomber had no formal education.....the guy was a Harvard Graduate and big brain....alleged to have been in some "mind control" program - they claimed he was one man....yet in his manifesto, he used the word "we", over and over again....... So no formal education meant the FBI was looking for say, a Timothy McVeigh or someone without any college at all and here they are dealing with former Harvard Professor who looked like a neantherthal man? So here we go and the cover and spin and rehabilitation of Gary Condit begins....the little girl with the Rose Tattoo is gone and near forgotten? The Police say Condit is not a suspect and the PR department is still referring to this older than his age looking little twerp as handsome - always this oh he is so handsome and of course Condit approves no doubt, all tthis handsome stuff....take a good look at that guy and for 53 he looke as though he is aging rather fast which often is a symptom of future illness? With his track record, hard to say what he may be developed in the way of a carrier of disease. So goodbye Chandra where ever you may be..... Read this garbage and wonder how far they will go for this guy Larry Flynt no doubt already has the goods on Condit and all the others and with Flynt contributing heavily to the ADL be assured the ADL has records for which they could also maybe be involved in a little blackmail.....after all they have been caught taking one big bribe from a wanted man. How many times have I read oh this person worked on a movie Hannibal? Have you seen the list of missing children, so many faces to remember who can remember them all.....Remember Jimmy Hoffa and remember Flight 800 with this disgusting FBI holding daily news conferences - TV stars? Like Littleton even there the FBI involved in the shootout at this school and nothing - but a grand production for a funeral and they were all TV stars? Is this what it is all about? Making someone big, such a big name people do not care what they do for they are "celebrities", self ordained? Like OJ Simpson but then, wonder what he and Clinton disussed that day playing golf, for a few months later his wife was murdered and John Gotti later from his prison cell put out a contract on OJ? So they are railroading James Traficant but JJ Cafaro will go free - watch, for this man bribed a US Congressman and will testify to the truth in the Court of Law but Traficant knows where all the bodies are buried and I bet he would have some information on Condit that might be most revealing...... Evil is as evil does.........and then there is the matter of Monica.........laid the goundwork for the blackmail of the President of the United States....but they sure got him in line, didn't they ....a Don Juan in the White House who turns loose the houds from Hell on children at Waco. Saba Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif. � Authorities debate closer look at Condit's role � Wider obstruction probe on table � By Susan Schmidt and Bill Miller THE WASHINGTON POST � WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 � �With new leads in the disappearance of Chandra Levy hard to come by, authorities are debating whether to intensify their focus on possible obstruction of justice and witness tampering on the part of Rep. Gary A. Condit and his aides, according to law enforcement sources. � � �� � � � � Officials recognize that exploring such allegations of criminal wrongdoing would have the unwanted consequence of keeping Condit in the intense media spotlight when there is nothing linking him to the disappearance. � � � �DECIDING ON such a course is a sensitive matter for the U.S. attorney's office, because it would immediately place the Democrat from California at the center of an investigation, even as police continue to say that he is not a suspect or even a central figure in the disappearance. � � � �The handling of the obstruction of justice allegations reflects the delicacy being brought to bear in a case that has drawn international attention but has yielded only baffling clues. Officials recognize that exploring such allegations of criminal wrongdoing would have the unwanted consequence of keeping Condit in the intense media spotlight when there is nothing linking him to the disappearance. � � � � RAISING THE STAKES � � � �With a dearth of evidence, Condit has kept the focus on himself, first by denying a relationship with the 24-year-old former federal intern and then acknowledging the affair two months into the inquiry. His efforts to cover up other affairs have kept him in the news and raised the stakes in an unusual investigation that now has two tracks: looking for Levy, which at this stage does not presume a crime has been committed, and deciding whether the subsequent actions of the congressman and his aides constitute criminal activity. � � � �What would otherwise have been a missing persons case chiefly handled by local police has for three months been a front-burner probe that gets attention from top Justice Department officials and draws on FBI field offices across the country. Justice officials are being consulted, for example, on how to best deal with the obstruction matter, law enforcement sources said. � � � �From the start, D.C. police have headed the Levy investigation. While Chief Charles H. Ramsey and Executive Assistant Chief Terrance W. Gainer have been highly visible - regularly addressing the news media - other law enforcement officials involved in the case have kept a much lower profile. �Carolyn Condit: Admired, defended and scrutinized � � � �The police have worked closely with the Washington field office of the FBI, which first assigned the case in early May to its kidnapping and bank robbery squad, part of its violent crimes section. Two agents were assigned full time, assisted by as many as a dozen others when needed. Case agents have worked closely with D.C. detectives, who have been on the investigation full time. They have received significant daily help from FBI agents in the Modesto, Calif., area, home of Levy and Condit. Tips, leads and reports of Levy sightings have been farmed out to field offices from Norfolk to Reno, Nev. � � � �Three weeks ago, FBI officials shifted the investigation to the D.C. field office's major case squad, a signal that they were in for the long haul. The squad that initially worked on the case is intended to be reactive; the major case squad is set up for long-term investigations. The agent in charge of the case now is Melissa Thomas, a longtime investigator who consulted on the movie "Hannibal," a thriller about a female FBI agent who hunts a serial killer. � � � �Thomas is working with FBI agent Brad Garrett, whose biggest success came in 1997, when he helped capture a man who killed two federal employees four years earlier outside CIA headquarters in Virginia. In recent years, Garrett helped build the case that led to the conviction of Carl Derek Cooper in the 1997 slayings of three employees at a Starbucks coffee shop in Northwest Washington. Thomas and Garrett, who have training in profiling, are being aided as needed by up to 12 members of their squad. � � � �The U.S. attorney's office has been working on the case since its early stages, initially monitoring developments and then taking an active role. Prosecutors began using a D.C. Superior Court grand jury in June to subpoena telephone and other records and helped arrange interviews with Condit and his wife, Carolyn. They also were involved in unsuccessful negotiations to arrange a polygraph examination of Condit. � � � �The chief prosecutors on the case, Barbara Kittay and Heidi M. Pasichow, sat in on Condit's second and third interviews with police and asked questions. They did not attend Condit's fourth meeting with investigators July 26, but that was a tactical decision; FBI agent Garrett, who is building a Levy profile, sat in and asked Condit about Levy's habits and character. The FBI thought he might develop better rapport with the congressman without prosecutors in the room, sources said. � � � �Kittay joined the U.S. attorney's office in 1997 after working as a prosecutor in Philadelphia and at the Justice Department. She is assigned to prosecute cases from the 2nd and 4th police districts in Northwest Washington. In recent years, Kittay has handled other significant cases, winning a conviction last year against a cabdriver who shot a man during a roadside argument on the Georgetown University campus, an incident that authorities said stemmed from road rage. � � � �Pasichow, a 15-year prosecutor, is a former deputy chief of the homicide section. She also has prevailed in complicated cases, winning convictions against several men accused of carrying out a shooting rampage in March 1994 at the O Street Market in Northwest. Pasichow now oversees cases in the 2nd and 4th police districts. � � � � 'URGENT REPORTS' � � � �Kittay and Pasichow report to Daniel S. Friedman, chief of the office's community prosecution section. The three have met regularly to discuss strategy with Terence J. Keeney, head of the office's Superior Court section; Channing D. Phillips, principal assistant U.S. attorney; and interim U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein. Within a few weeks, another key player will probably join the mix: Roscoe C. Howard Jr. has been nominated as U.S. attorney and could take over for Wainstein this month. Advertisement � � � �The U.S. attorney's office has been alerting officials at the Justice Department to key developments involving Condit and his staff, following a policy requiring that "urgent reports" be sent to provide advance notice of interviews or grand jury or trial appearances by any member of Congress or other prominent officials. The report goes to the executive office of U.S. attorneys, which notifies Justice higher-ups. Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is one of those who receives occasional briefings. � � � �The U.S. attorney also is required to provide e-mails, faxes and written memorandums to the Justice Department on "issues or events that may be of major interest to the press, Congress or the president." � � � �While D.C. police officials have briefed the news media on their progress, prosecutors have been guarded in their public remarks, especially when the subject has turned to Condit and his staff. They took the unusual step of bringing flight attendant Anne Marie Smith from California to Washington last month to hear firsthand her allegations that Condit's representatives asked her to sign a false affidavit denying that she had an affair with the congressman. The prosecutors emphasized then that they had not decided to launch an investigation into possible obstruction of justice; instead, they said, they were reviewing Smith's account while remaining focused on the search for Levy, who was last seen about April 30. � � � �An attorney for Condit spokesman Mike Lynch, who talked to Smith about the affidavit, said she offered to meet investigators two weeks ago but has not been contacted. � � � �Former Condit aide Joleen Argentini McKay, of California, contacted the FBI in May, alleging that Mike Dayton, an aide in Condit's congressional office, had urged her not to reveal to investigators that she was involved with the congressman in the 1990s. Hours before police and the FBI searched Condit's Adams Morgan apartment July 10, Dayton drove the congressman to Alexandria, according to police. There, Condit discarded a box containing a watch that police say McKay gave him. � � � �Dayton talked to authorities several weeks ago, but it is unclear whether the obstruction issue was addressed. His attorney, Stan Brand, a former partner of Condit attorney Abbe D. Lowell, did not return telephone calls for comment. � � � �Some investigators caution that proceeding with obstruction allegations would probably not bring them closer to finding Levy. On that front, police officials sound more frustrated. Ramsey said last week that his department has nearly exhausted efforts to find her. � � � �"We have done every possible search, followed all the leads you can think of," Ramsey said. 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