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The Search for Chandra: Condit Meets With FBI, D.C. Police
Aired July 27, 2001 - 08:01 ET
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: First up this hour, the latest developments in the Chandra Levy case.
CNN has learned that Congressman Gary Condit had his fourth interview with investigators. He met at his attorney's office with D.C. police detectives and the FBI.
And on Capitol Hill, there is additional criticism of the congressman's behavior. This time from a friend and fellow lawmaker. Republican Scott McInnis tells CNN he is going to request a new House ethic rule barring sexual relationships between members of Congress and interns.
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REP. SCOTT MCINNIS (R), COLORADO: And that's what people are trying to say. Oh my gosh, Gary would be embarrassed if he had an affair with an intern -- now it turns out to be two interns perhaps, and even two interns and a stewardess, and now -- you know, I mean, give me a break.
The victim here is this missing intern's family. I mean, that's what we ought to be taking a look at. I'll tell you if I was -- as I said earlier, I mean, I feel strongly about this. I would have come up here and grabbed Gary by his collar, by his neck and said: "Tell me what you know. Maybe you didn't have anything to do with her disappearance, but tell us today what you know."
The Washington, D.C. police should have done it that day. And I am sure that the father would have liked to have gotten a hold of him the next day and -- cooperate! We are not saying you killed her, or she is gone, or whatever, but tell us what you know. Don't wait for 12 -- three months -- and frankly, I think the only reason that he has spoken at this point is because of the press, the media pressure.
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LIN: All right. We're going to have more on what the congressman is trying to do.
But in the meantime, Jon Karl is standing by in Washington.
Jon, what can you tell us about the kinds of questions the congressman was asked? JONATHAN KARL, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, what I can tell you is that was his fourth interview. It was both with D.C. police and with the FBI.
As you know, the FBI has been putting together a psychological profile of Chandra Levy. That's why they wanted to be a part of this interview, not so much to look into Condit's behavior in all of this and where he may or may not be involved, but actually to get what he knows about Chandra Levy. So they can put together the kind of profile where they can look and try to figure out who would have tried to do something to her or what she might have done if she had tried to flee.
So this was basically an interview -- a two-hour long interview both with D.C. police -- questions about Condit's actions -- and also with the FBI, which is looking into putting together this kind of psychological profile.
LIN: Jon, there was a lot of negotiating back and forth between Congressman Condit's attorney, as well as the FBI, in terms of how they were going to structure this interview session. Do you know anymore about that? I mean, what were some of the restrictions on some of the investigator's asking those questions and the like?
KARL: Well, the short answer, Carol, is we really don't know yet what exactly the parameters were. It's true that Condit's attorneys did want to have certain parameters on this interview. We also know that in the past, law enforcement has been very reluctant to grant such parameters. So we don't really know if there any ground rules to this interview, but we do know what they wanted to get at, and especially the FBI, again, wanting to get at that psychological profile here of Chandra Levy.
LIN: All right. Thank you very much, Jon Karl, with the latest developments in that case.
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