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Today’s Washington Post runs an article which raises a whole series of new questions about the Chandra Levy case.

Let’s note two.

The first is that Congressman Gary Condit seems to have been a little less cooperative with the police investigation than he and the police themselves have let on. News reports yesterday said that the DC police had decided to reinterview Condit on Wednesday evening. Yet the Post story says the police first requested that second interview about ten days ago. Is there something more important going on for Condit that kept him from scheduling a time to sit down with the cops? Late word is that there’s yet another delay — and apparently the interview will again have to be rescheduled.

The other point touches on the competence, or perhaps the aggressiveness, of the police investigation. It appears that it was the Levys themselves who found the conspicuous pattern of Chandra’s calls to Condit in her cell phone records — not the police. The Post article also reports that DC Commander Jack Barrett, head detective on the case, told the paper that they hadn’t known Condit’s wife was making a relatively rare visit to DC during the crucial week of April 28th to May 3rd until Condit’s press secretary and lawyer said so publicly last week.

How can that be? Wouldn’t the initial interview have covered such obvious ground? If it did, did Condit withhold that information? Obviously, these are purely speculative questions. But since Condit’s wife was in town for an official function (a meeting of the Congressional Wives Club hosted by Laura Bush), the fact that the police didn’t find out she was in town can’t help but call into question the thoroughness of their investigation. And their apparent (and I stress apparent) failure to come up with the cell phone information points in the same direction.

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