If you’ve been following Talking Points’ coverage of the Condit-Levy story you don’t need me to tell you that I haven’t been particularly sympathetic to Condit’s handlers’ allegations that he’s been getting a bum rap from the press. But could this be an instance where he has?
As I noted in this earlier post, today’s Washington Post reported that DC police had asked for a re-interview with Condit a full ten days ago. This wasn’t from an anonymous source, but an on-the-record quote from DC Commander Jack Barrett, head detective on the case. That left the pretty obvious impression that Condit had been dodging a re-interview with the cops.
However, in later editions of the paper, and in the current one online, that quote from Commander Barrett about ten days is gone.
That left the obvious question of whether the line was just cut in a subsequent edition of the paper for editorial or space reasons, or whether it had in fact not been true.
I spoke late this afternoon with Petula Dvorak, the co-author of the Post piece, and she assured me that the line in question was merely “trimmed for space.” As far as they’re concerned the quote stands.
