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Does FBI cold case guy Brad Garrett have Chandra's case?

 
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:01 am    Post subject: Does FBI cold case guy Brad Garrett have Chandra's case? Reply with quote

From the beginning of Chandra's disappearance, I have read hopeful posts of Brad Garrett being given the case. He has many fans among true crime posters. He and the FBI have been at best disappointing, if they even have her case. Who knows. They and the DC police are either pointing fingers at each other or part of a cover up to protect Congress, but whatever, they have been truly inept.

In August, 2001, four months after Chandra disappeared, from chapter Grand Jury:

With the search of Rock Creek Park coming up empty, the FBI went to a crack cold-case team to solve Chandra Levy's disappearance. Susan Schmidt and Bill Miller of the Washington Post report on the new agents taking over:

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 by
up to 12 members of their squad.

Schmidt, Susan and Bill Miller. “Closer Look at Roles of Condit, Aides
Debated: Discussion of Possible Obstruction of Justice, Witness Tampering as Leads Dwindle.” Washington Post 6 Aug. 2001.



A year later, from chapter Woman Missing:

Where was the FBI that was supposed to have taken over the case long ago? Washington's NBC4 followed up with them:

The disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy remains
one of this area's most notorous mysteries.

"It appears that she was on her computer early
afternoon of May 1, and then she logs off. Then
it's, of course, a year and three weeks later that
we find her remains in Rock Creek Park," recalled
FBI Agent Brad Garrett....

"In actuality, we don't know exactly what happened
to her, what precipitated her death," said Sgt. J.C.
Young.

In fact, they don't even know how she died.
"Well, we've been in constant contract with the
medical examiner's office and we're still attempting
to get the actual autopsy report from the medical
examiner's office," said Young.

"Is it someone she knew? Maybe. Is it someone she
didn't know? Maybe. It could go either way," said
Garrett.

Still, investigators insist, they are making
progress.

"The public's got to be patient because everything
doesn't happen overnight. Watching CSI and Homicide
these people believe that these crimes can be solved
in a day or so, and that doesn't happen," said
Young.

They need help from someone who knows something or
someone who saw something.

"Someone sees something happen on every crime scene,
believe it or not, and all they have to do is report
it," said Young.

"We will eventually solve this case at the end,
whatever the truth is, because there's been a lot of
speculation about what this case might be, and I
always like to bring the truth out, and we will at
the end," said Garrett.

“Unsolved Cases: Chandra Levy Investigation.” NBC4.com 6 Nov. 2003.


The FBI is working on Chandra's case, but they haven't got the autopsy report from the Medical Examiner's office after a year and a half?

end quote from Murder on a Horse Trail


Needless to say, the FBI was next to worthless. This was also the same time they were blowing field agents investigations reporting suspicious Arabs who couldn't speak English wanting to learn how to fly Boeing jets but not caring how to take off and land. Nah, nothing there to investigate. Let's instead stay in constant contact with the coroner's office for a year and a half to get an autopsy report and still not get it. The epitomy of incompetence.

As stated above, Garrett got his reputation nailing the sniper murderer of some CIA employees driving in to work. Descriptions of Garrett's work are almost in the realm of legend. As we will see instead, the disappointment will only deepen.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From The CIA at War by Ronald Kessler:

Garrett was not your typical FBI agent. He usually dressed entirely in black, wore Armani and Hugo Black suits, and walked with a swagger. From 5 A.M. to 7 A.M. , he worked out at Gold's Gym. But Garrett, who had a Ph.D. in criminilogy, was a tenacious, smart investigator who had developed a reputation for solving the most difficult murder cases....

Witnesses told Garrett the gunman was in his thirties and looked as if he was from the Middle East. He used an AK-47 automatic rifle. The FBI and ATF canvassed local gun shops to try to trace the weapon. The owner of a shop in Chantilly, Virginia, recalled that three days before the shooting a Middle Eastern man had purchased an AK-47.

Garrett pulled the record. Aimal Kasi, an immigrant from Quetta, Pakistan, had purchased the gun. He listed an address in Herndon, Virginia, where he rented an apartment with Zahed Ahmad Mir, who had recently reported him missing.

When interviewed, Mir said Kasi was a mid-mannered man, except when watching CNN shots of the U.S. military intervening in Moslem countries. He would then become agitated and denounce the United States.

"Mir said that a week or two before the shooting Kasi said, 'I'm going to do something at the CIA , White House, or Israeli embassy,'" Garrett told me.



To sum up the remainder of the US investigation, Kasi bought a ticket for Pakistan right after the shooting and they found the AK-47 in his apartment. So on to to Pakistan to find Kasi. Continuing from The CIA at War:

Over the next four and a half years, Garrett pursued leads with the help of the CIA.... In the spring of 1997, several of Kasi's bodyguards approached a State Department officer in Karachi. They told her they could pinpoint Kasi's location in return for the reward money, then set at $2 million.... Eventually the CIA agreed to increase the reward to $5 million.

"For Tenet and the CIA, it was personal," said Garrett.


end quote from The CIA at War


Did anybody see anything in there that Garrett did, or for that matter, that anybody's grandmother couldn't do? The sniper bought an AK-47 with his Pakistani ID, and four and a half years later some Pakis blackmailed the US for $5 million to tell them where he was. Please tell me why this is worthy of even mentioning, much less glorifying Garrett.

Let's just say I'm no longer surprised that Chandra's case remains an uninvestigated FBI cold case.

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