For Condit, it was the best of times and the worst of times - a tale of two Condits...... (will the real Gary Condit stand up??) Saba Police to turn up heat on Condit Rep. Gary Condit pushed past reporters and photographers Thursday as he left his apartment in the Adams Morgan section of Washington. July 14 — Washington police continued their search for Chandra Levy and said they were not impressed by Rep. Gary Condit's private polygraph test. NBC's Norah O'Donnell reports. NBC NEWS AND WIRE REPORTS WASHINGTON, July 14 — Investigators plan to call on Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., to submit as soon as possible to a police-administered polygraph test in connection with the disappearance of former intern Chandra Levy, a senior Washington police official told NBC News on Saturday. Condit has already passed a polygraph given privately, his lawyer said, but police weren't ready to accept those results. July 13 — Are lie detector tests a reliable indicator of who's telling the truth? NBC's Pete Williams reports. TERRANCE GAINER, Washington's No. 2 police official, said police had yet to receive the results of Condit's first test, administered Friday. He said he had not spoken with Abbe Lowell, Condit's attorney, since the surprise announcement of the exam Friday. "We are giving each other some space," Gainer angrily told NBC News correspondent Norah O'Donnell. The test reportedly questioned Condit on three crucial points: whether he had anything to do with Levy's disappearance, whether he had harmed her or caused anyone else to harm her, and whether he knows her whereabouts. "There was absolutely no deception," Lowell told reporters, referring to the results of the test. The test was administered by retired FBI special agent Barry Colvert, who has given more than 3,000 polygraph tests during his career, Lowell said. "The charts were so clear, the results were so clear, that anybody looking at them would come to the same conclusion," said Lowell. [Saba Note: Do you think that guy would give a bad report when he is paid big bucks by Condit for examination???] POLICE SKEPTICAL OF RESULTS But Gainer expressed doubt about the validity of the results, which he said police still had not received Saturday. "My impression was that we were going to continue that dialogue and get to it," Gainer said Friday after Lowell's announcement. "I don't think it surprises anybody that a defense attorney as sharp as Abbe Lowell would give his client a polygraph before he offers it to the police. I just didn't expect it quite this way." Gainer said the test was administered in a "not-normal technique," in which the questioner was not given the full facts of the case. Advertisement "There has to be some give and take between the investigators and the polygraph examiner for the results to be meaningful," Gainer said. A spokesman for the Levy family expressed dismay over the announcement of Condit's test and also called on him to submit to a police-administered exam. Until then, "the family does not believe that Congressman Condit is fully cooperating with the family in their efforts to find their daughter," attorney Billy Martin said. Aside from the three points directly related to Levy's disappearance, Lowell would not say what other questions Condit was asked and whether he passed those, as well. As he has before, Lowell berated the media for what he said was an obsession about his client's private life, which he termed "counterproductive" for the search for Levy. Police sources have told NBC that Condit has admitted he was having an affair with Levy at the time of her disappearance on April 30. Police have repeatedly said that Condit is not a suspect in the disappearance of Levy, a graduate student from his congressional district who had just finished an internship with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons when she vanished. ALTERED SKETCHES RELEASED Police began distributing sketches Saturday showing Levy with different hairstyles and hair colors "in case she disappeared on her own," as one high-ranking department official told NBC News. The sketches show the brunette Levy with her hair cut short, with blonde hair and with a ponytail. Police Chief Charles Ramsey said Friday the sketches were being distributed to cover all the bases in the case and did not indicate that police now believed Levy had vanished of her own accord. Police are exploring the possibility Levy may have changed her appearance since she was reported missing. They asked anyone seeing a person who resembles these composites to call them at (202) 727-9099. Police also are awaiting FBI laboratory tests to see whether items removed from Condit's condominium unit during a search Wednesday contained blood. Gainer said Thursday that authorities were expecting no major advances in their investigation as a result of the almost four-hour search, which was conducted with Condit's consent and in his presence. Condit also has given authorities a DNA sample, which could be compared to any other body fluids that are recovered in the course of the investigation. OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? July 13 — John Walsh, host of 'America's Most Wanted,' talks about the Levy case and his exclusive interview with the missing intern's parents. Meanwhile, sources told The Associated Press that federal prosecutors had broadened a criminal inquiry into whether the congressman sought to obstruct justice. Condit's camp had been hoping that investigators would conclude, after two days of interviews with a San Francisco woman, that her accusation that Condit sought to interfere with the investigation of Levy's disappearance was either without merit or unprosecutable. The woman, Anne Marie Smith, 39, a flight attendant, has alleged that Condit urged her to sign a statement denying a 10-month affair she says they had. She also maintains that Condit told her she did not have to cooperate with FBI agents who questioned her. Speaking Friday on CNN's "Larry King Live," Smith said Condit repeatedly called urging her to sign the statement. "He's very manipulative. He kept pressing me to sign this affidavit," said Smith, who said she seriously considered signing the document but decided against it at the last minute. Smith's attorney, Jim Robinson, said Condit's urgings put her at great risk. "She could've gone to jail for a long time if she'd signed it." Smith also said Condit told her that he had had affairs previous to their relationship. During the CNN program, she urged anyone who had been involved with Condit to talk with police. "If there are other women that know anything about this and are afraid ... I encourage them from the bottom of my heart to come forward." More coverage •Latest developments •WashPost: Another affair alleged •WashPost: Condit's political support slipping •Second track opens •Newsweek: Condit's long road to admission •Capital interns wary •Levy theories online •Media's coverage of story •BBS: Sound off Lowell refused earlier Friday to comment on Smith's allegations, saying, "I don't understand ... what anything with Anne Marie Smith has to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy." But on CNN, Robinson said Condit's past involvements may offer important clues about his relationship with Levy. "There's an MO here," Robinson said, using police shorthand for "modus operandi." POLICE SEARCH CONTINUES Police said Saturday they plan to scour a park near Levy's home Monday in an effort to find her body or other clues related to her disappearance. The effort continues a massive search that began Thursday when police combed through vacant buildings near where Levy was last seen. Police will search areas 100 yards into Rock Creek Park from where someone could have parked a car. "If there was an unplanned homicide and someone wanted to get rid of a body as quickly as possible, they might bury it not far from the road," Gainer told NBC. This page is too big to be shown completely.
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