www.justiceforchandra.com

[blondie]

I don't know if this is on her anywhere

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/2001/print-cover0720.html

It's a long article but what intrigued me is the 3rd paragraph down which says, ..."Chandra did, after all, check out our web site just before she disappeared, according to police. Our cover story that week was about therapies for men that batter women."...

[blondie]

I just tried the link and it won't work. The date of it was July 20-26, 2001
Maybe someone else here knows how to post it.

This is one of the websites she looked up on May 1, 2001

[rd]

What's the title of it, blondie? We can't post a long article on the web due to copyright issues. Are you saying that the wife beating article was on the Washington City Paper website on May 1?

I found it, taking a look at it now.

rd

[rd]

This isn't too long. A brutal treatment of all involved, fair grounds for discussion.

rd

from www.washingtoncitypaper.com (fair use)

Washington City Paper
July 20 - 26, 2001

SUMMER OF CHANDRA

Sex! Lies! A congressman! A missing intern! What more could we ask for?

Monica was good. But Chandra is better.

C'mon—admit it. You're having lots of lazy, sleazy fun this summer trading Chandra theories with your friends and colleagues over chips and beer. The whodunit disappearance of intern Chandra Levy and her tawdry little affair with boyfriend Congressman Gary Condit would be the parlor game of the year if anybody actually had a parlor anymore.

And it's scarcely confined to the District. Travel anywhere in the country this summer and mention that you're from Washington and guess what you'll be asked about. (Hint: It's not "Taxation without representation.”)

By now, we've all been thoroughly debased in this Chandra orgy, led, as usual, by our insatiable bottom-feeding media tastemakers—CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the National Enquirer/Globe/Star, the New York tabloids, and, remarkably enough, the Washington Post. (And now, the Washington City Paper. Chandra did, after all, check out our Web site just before she disappeared, according to police. Our cover story that week was about therapies for men who batter women.) Oh sure, the TV pundits somberly remind us at the top of every hour that we must not lose sight of the fact that an innocent young woman is missing and quite likely dead—right before they breathlessly report the latest on Chandra and Gary's hot-oil massages. And this just in! Condit had another girlfriend—a stewardess! And another one—an 18-year-old former intern, who had a baby during the time she was consorting with the congressman!

If this were a Law & Order episode, it would already be over: When the prime suspect evades police questioning and 'fesses up to a key part of the story only on the third interview, you know you've got your man. Except, of course, the police keep insisting that Condit is not a suspect. He's a serial philanderer, an adulterer, and a skunk, but he's not a suspect. And he did take his own custom-made lie detector test, after all, which Condit's lawyer declares completely clears his client.

Condit is scarcely cleared in the court of public opinion, however. Nor, for that matter, is sweet, innocent Chandra. Inquiring minds still have a few questions about this summer potboiler that have yet to be satisfactorily dissected on Nightline.

Could someone please explain, for example, how a supposedly bright graduate student could have been so foolish? We're not supposed to blame the victim, but it's awfully hard not to wonder what on earth Chandra was thinking. Did she really believe that a married congressman old enough to be her father—who practically hid her under a burqua, he was so afraid of being discovered with her—actually intended to ditch his wife and destroy his political career to marry her?

What did the two of them talk about during those romantically surreptitious dinners in out-of-the-way suburban Thai restaurants? Campaign-finance reform? The California energy crisis? Ridin' Harleys? What does a veteran congressman actually have in common with a green intern? Is blind worship really such a turn-on? What do you say to a doormat?

And what's this Democratic jones for bubbleheaded, big-haired Jewish interns, anyway?

Condit was supposed to be the powerful one in the relationship. But Chandra held the ace: the congressman's abject fear of disclosure. It could have made for a potent threat. Did Chandra—fearful of being dumped, or having stumbled upon evidence of another of Condit's affairs, or testing positive on a home pregnancy test, or simply eager to accelerate that five-year waiting period before Condit would marry her—decide to try to use it? Did she stroll over to Condit's Adams Morgan love nest—she apparently had a key—intending to confront him on the eve of her trip to California, only to find—surprise!—that his wife was on one of her rare visits to the capital? Did something happen between the two of them?

What about that reportedly long-suffering wife? What exactly is this chronic ailment she's reported to have? And how long before she tires of the drip-drip-drip of daily humiliations of her husband's affairs and decides to dish on Dateline?

Which brings us to the other grown-ups in this whole sordid affair: Chandra's parents. What were they thinking? Let's not forget that they seemed to have known something about their daughter's foolish romance since at least last December, to judge from the evidence of a family video, on which Daddy can be heard ribbing Chandra about her congressman boyfriend. Hello?! Didn't the Levy elders think to warn their naive daughter that maybe, just maybe, a married congressman 29 years her senior might not have her best interests at heart?

Then there was the helpful intervention of Chandra's aunt, Linda Zamsky, to whom Chandra confided details of her May-December affair. Aunt Linda's advice to Chandra? Arrange the congressman's shirts by color and build him a terrarium—the two surefire pathways to a man's heart.

Nearly three months into the Summer of Chandra, reports are finally trickling out of Condit's home district in California that his once-hearty voter support is beginning to wither in the media heat. Don't be too sure. Chances are, many voters in his district want Condit as far away from their own daughters as possible. Best to keep him 3,000 miles away in Sodom, D.C. CP

[benn]

Sounds sort of like a disinformation news story.

I was listening to an African American radio talk show host once, and the subject of Washington newspapers came up. If I remember correctly the Washington City Paper is the Washington paper he read to get news about Washington.

benn

[rd]

it's pretty accurate, benn, not entirely but close. I think the criticism is worthy of considering, though it's pretty brutal.

rd

[blondie]

rd - there is more to the article, like 28 pages. But still, the most interesting part is in the third paragraph.

[rd]

oh, the Newport and Adams Mill pieces, or more? Those Newport and Adams Mill pieces are very good writing, to say the least. A lot of interesting info.

rd

[blondie]

There is other headings like "The girl next door" and many others. I just don't know how to put it here.

[rd]

Can't put it here, blondie. They're too big. It's a copyright issue. "The girl next door" is the Newport piece. The Adams Mill piece is "The neighbors and hangers-on".

Of course we can quote liberally from anything in discussing it.

rd

[peripeteia]

Thanks for the article Blondie. It has always struck me that if indeed this was chandra at her computer the 1st of May if seems as though she was trying to find something. I checked however long after the fact newsworthy items on May 1st to discern what Chandra was looking for. The only things I found that might be of interest was that Fheed, head of the FBI resigned.... the information on the McVeigh missing papers was not announced until May 9....

One idea I had, what if she was doing work for Gary, say listening to the Hearings on the Energy Bill in California, she did visit Thomasloc.gov site where it is possible to listen to the hearings. I'd speculate that as elective representative from California and on the Agriculture committee and that he meet with the President and the Vice President regarding the energy situation in California that should have been at the meetings. For some reason he was not....he want to know what was going on, he could have asked Chandra to take notes and meet with him after his meeting with Cheney.......

Also, the interesting paragraph about the video, which can be viewed on ABC timeline Chandra under videos, many times I have seen this but since they upgraded the real requirements to view which I don't have and that you have to pay to view. In the video which is subliminal you can hear Bob Levy joke with Chandra about her boyfriend. I viewed this many times trying to glimpse her gold watch and to see what rings she is wearing. I watched it many times before it hit me what bob was saying, I wonder did chandra have a copy and show this to Gary? If Gary saw this he would have been in a rage....as it was obvious that everyone knew at the table about a congressman being Chandra's boyfriend....this hardly
seems secret. This I presume was at Passover and Paul Katz had given her a present, in the video she get up and kisses a man at the head of the table.

I'm having difficulty to find this article you are referring to, I'll try again.

Kate
_________________
A vision sent me on the path of seeking justice for Chandra, nothing I've seen in print to date has diminished the vividness but only served to reaffirm the validity of this vision.

[blondie]

I found an article of USA Today about him having lunch,(steak) with Bush and 197 other congressman. Some were angry because not many Democrats showed up. Condit was quoted by USA in the 5-1 article saying it was a bad day.

I looked up sfgate.com, which was on her list of websites and the only interesting thing I found was that on 5-1-01 there was an article about Mark Furman investigating Vince Foster. Maybe she was looking at that?

[blondie]

JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING. If she listened to thomasloc.gov, maybe she found out he was not there after maybe he told her that he would be?

[rd]

blondie, the news sites had articles which mentioned Condit being at the White House the previous day.

Along the lines of thomas.gov, she was logged into lexis-nexis which does have congressional committee schedules.

rd