Police may be close to arrest in Chandra Levy case

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

Arrest may be imminent in Chandra Levy case, according to CNN affiliate KGO


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police are close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case, one of Washington's most infamous cold cases, CNN affiliate KGO reported Saturday.


Police are reportedly close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case.

Police contacted Levy's parents Friday informing them the arrest was imminent, the San Francisco, California, television station reported.

KGO also quoted a Washington television report that said police were pursuing an arrest warrant for Ingmar Guandique, an inmate in the D.C. prison system.

Washington police did not return calls to CNN seeking comment.

"We appreciate all the hard work they did," Susan Levy, Chandra's mother, told another CNN affiliate KXTV. "You want justice. You want the person incarcerated. It is still painful no matter what. Your child is dead and gone. But we are glad the police are doing something and making a difference."

Levy, a California native, went missing on April 30, 2001. Her remains were found May 22, 2002, by a man walking his dog in a remote area of a Washington city park.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/21/chandra.levy/

[Uben]

1. we need to see a whole lot of people eating crow.....

....virtually every right-wing pundit quickly jumped on the bandwagon to accuse Gary Conditt of this murder, destroying his political career. Maybe Condit should now sue Limbaugh for libel and strip him of all his money.

[ixion]

3. yep... Condit most certainly had his career destroyed by this

and when they arrest whomever it is, he should sue all those "pundits" (including the South Park guys) for all they're worth for dragging him through the mud just for fun.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. His career would have been destroyed anyway

because of the affair.

As far as thugs are concerned, extramarital sex is much worse than murder. Otherwise they'd go after the bushistas.

[ixion]

26. well, IOKIYAR... otherwise, yes...

bastards.

[MISSDem]

50. It didn't destroy Bill Clinton.

So why should it have destroyed Condit?

[Cha]

51. Because Monica didn't go missing..

hello.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

53. It's all about the constituents...

The majority of US citizens didn't give a rat's ass about Condit's affair; but the majority of US citizens didn't get him into office.

[roguevalley]

55. Condit got what he deserved. He was doing someone who wasn't his wife and

acting sanctimonious. I only care about her family. They deserve the truth and an end to this. Condit can stuff it.

[LisaL]

59. Yea I would hardly call him an innocent victim in all of this.

He made his bed.

[ret5hd]

62. Well, he was innocent of murder. Right?

[certainot]

31. rove and co used this to get a dem out of office

and they couldn't have done it without their talk radio monopoly to do the dirty work

[SharonAnn]

45. Especially Nancy Grace and even Larry King. Remember summer of 2001? ACATT!

ACATT! All Chandra All The Time!

It's when I became so disgusted with CNN that I stopped leaving it on all day while I was working. What a bunch of drivel. Talking heads all day long and all night long "opinionating" and "hypothecating" and "speculating" about all this. It was nauseating.

Just remember, the United States was focused on "All Chandra, All The Time" while Al-Quaeda was preparing the final details for the 9-11 attack.

Remember not to get distracted by the right-wing cheapening of media by disguising cheap opinion shows as equal to more expensive "real news" shows produced by journalists.

[kath]

49. Yep, I remember. And strangely, the CPM NEVER discussed the dead staffer in Joe Scarborough's

office.

CPM = CorporatePropagandaMinistry

[progressoid]

46. I'm not holding my breath.

When have we ever seen that happen?

[SurfinBetty]

57. Except the guy says Condit paid him $25,000 to kill her!

I think the guy "confessed" for the fame and made the whole thing up.

[rpannier]

2. Will faux news apologise to condit for practically convicting him of her murder

Condit is a worthless piece of garbage, but faux's reporting of the story was as embarassing as Geraldo Rivera's coverage of the Ramsey family

[tularetom]

6. As one of his former constituents let me say that you have described Condit perfectly

His post congress career has been something less than stellar. He fled to Phoenix where he opened two Baskin Robbins franchises. There were some disagreements which culminated in Condit taking the company to court. The impression I got from our local fishwrap was that the judge could barely hold back his guffaws as he threw out Condit's case.

He was more or less unfairly crucified by the press in the Levy incident but to a lot of us the end justified the means. We're glad he's gone (although his replacement isn't much better).

[marksmithfield]

15. The Ramsey family

deserves all the scrutiny they can give them. I think that mother is in a very hot place now. good riddance to that rubbish.

[onlyadream]

16. Re; Jon bennet, I think either...

someone (not family) did it and the mother/father thought it was the son - and tried to cover it up OR
the son (9yo) did it and the parents tried to cover it up. Recently DNA surfaced which cleared the parents - but did it also clear Burk, the son?

[LisaL]

30. Oh for crying out loud.

That DNA didn't not come from anyone in the immediate family.
No one has a clue who it belongs to, but it doesn't belong to Ramsey or his son.

[Dr.Phool]

4. If it weren't for 9/11, we'd still be hearing about it.

Chandra Levy/Gary Condit, 24/7/365.

[Mari333]

5. yep. shark attacks and chandra levy

all the news that was on TV until 9/11.

[Psephos]

35. Seems like long ago and far away, doesn't it? n/t

[Mari333]

37. and yet its still fresh in my mind

I think Einstein was right..time is an illusion. or I am just getting olllld. :)

[No Elephants]

14. No kidding. We're still hearing about Kennedy and two proceedings acquitted him of

everything but leaving the scene of an accident.

[Sheltiemama]

42. I remember that.

In the days leading up to 9/11, all the evening talk shows were about Levy and Condit. I remember thinking a few days after 9/11 how that story just STOPPED.

[FreakinDJ]

7. I hope the evidence is not some "Jail House Snitch" naming this guy

After that story on 60 minutes about Jail House Snitches naming innocent victims so the Cops could close the case and the snitch could get out of jail, every time I here about some one already in jail being indicted that is all I think about

[SurfinBetty]

58. Yes, it is a Jail House Snitch.

And he was convicted of murdering two others in the same park.

[rurallib]

8. whatever happened with Scarboro's dead intern or secretary?

Is that case closed?

[No Elephants]

9. As I recall, that case got closed about 7.5 minutes after discovery of her body.

[mamameow]

32. wrong

the case investigation proceeded more than 7 minutes. when the officials got close to a closure, jeb bush stepped in and stopped the investigation.

[No Elephants]

56. I assumed that no one would take 7.5 minutes literally. My bad, I guess.

[tom_paine]

13. Quickly hushed up by Nazi-Bushie law Enforcement, a criminal coronor imported for his criminality

and of course, the cornerstone of any authoritarian criminal cover-up, a controlled M$M which will provide 100% blanket silence, perhaps with a necessary little bit of plausible deniability built in.

[chatnoir]

33. They imported some fraud coroner and closed the case

Berkland, it must be noted, has a less than professional record. He was fired from his position as medical examiner in Missouri for making false statements and eventually lost the right to practice medicine in that state (see sidebar). Still, Berkland concluded in the final autopsy report that Klausutis's heart had failed. Moreover, by failing to officially close the investigation, long after they had ceased to interview witnesses, the police prevented the public from learning any facts about Klausutis's death.

Only when the autopsy report was released (and that occurred only because the editor in chief of the Northwest Florida Daily News Ralph Routon's editorial demanded its issuance) did those willing to exercise their rights under Florida's Sunshine Law learn the extent of Lori's injuries.

The autopsy report revealed that Lori had suffered two skull fractures and an additional wound. A 71/4-inch crack all but spanned the top of her head, from right temple to left.

As a likely consequence of that blow, blood poured in from a steadily pumping heart to form a fist-sized hematoma at the left temple. There were separate 11/2-inch eggshell fractures, essentially pulverizing the bone, deep inside the skull behind the right ear. The back of her head was bashed, and her lungs were filled with bloody foam, suggesting that she took a relatively long time to die.

In the final autopsy report, Berkland wrote off all those devastating injuries to heart failure. According to Berkland, Klausutis had fainted from a weak heart and hit her head on the desk, an unlikely scenario considering the massive damage to the victim's skull.

Showing an incredible lack of professionalism, the local press swallowed this story whole, even the seeming contradiction about a failing heart having been capable of pumping more than a half cup of blood to form the hematoma. Medical science suggests that, if Klausutis's heart was so weak that it failed to pump enough blood to her brain to maintain consciousness, that same heart would not pump enough blood to form the hematoma.

With Berkland's confusing-and medically improbable-scenario securely within the official case file, the case was closed. No more questions. No more answers.

More: http://www.larryflynt.com/notebook.php?id=17&

[SpiralHawk]

10. "I did not have murder with that intern." - Joe 'republicon propagandist' Scarborough

"Ooops, wrong dead intern. I retract my lame excuse. In this case. I think."

- Joe 'republicon propagandist' Scarborough

[DainBramaged]

11. Gary Condit should go after Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Lush Limpballs for slander

just to prove a point that these Reich-wing scumbags do NOT have the freedom to destroy a person's life.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,31316,00.html

Is Condit Fit to Be a Congressman?

ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Welcome to HANNITY & COLMES. I'm Alan Colmes.

Coming up: Was an environmental regulation to blame for a tragic fire in Washington state? We'll have an update.

And then: Why are North Carolina residents throwing tea bags at the legislature? We'll tell you.

And then: Should the recently passed tax cut become permanent?

And later: What is this, "Footloose"? Well, some schools are banning a type of dancing, but is it really harmful to kids?

Feinstein, who said he could never regain his credibility and she could not forgive him for lying to her, though she corrected herself today, saying she could forgive him but remains concerned that he violated the public trust.

And in an exclusive interview with Fox News today, Vice President Dick Cheney weighed in on this controversy.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TONY HOST, FOX NEWS: Have you been surprised that members of Congress have not been more outspoken not about Chandra Levy but just about the revelations about his prior behavior?

RICHARD CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There's a -- I think a reluctance on the part of members of Congress to criticize a colleague. There's a bit of a tradition up there, and it's -- generally, it's adhered to. And there's 435 members of the House. Each of them got

elected, just like every other.

You could look at those 435 members and judge some of them not to be especially competent, perhaps, or maybe unethical sometimes in their conduct. But members are very cautious to judge another, partly because the Constitution says the way you get to be a member of that body is you get elected by the voters. That's the only test.

And once you've passed that test, then they're generally going to be very careful before they start pointing fingers at somebody, especially when, in this particular case, of course, what you have is his admission that he was carrying on an affair with this young woman, but there's no allegation and certainly no evidence to indicate that anything other than that happened.

COLMES: Meanwhile, Condit plans to spend the congressional recess at a retreat with his two adult children, but has not decided whether or not he'll meet with constituents. Should he?

Joining us now in Los Angeles, Fox News political analyst Susan Estrich. Here in New York, constitutional attorney Ann Coulter.

Ann, was Dick Cheney too easy on Gary Condit just now? He's saying the same thing that congressional Democrats and Republicans are saying, and the conservatives are saying, "Come on. Let's" -- you know, Barr's saying he should resign. Was Dick Cheney too good to him, too kind to him?

ANN COULTER, CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY: No, I think the vice president can't show open contempt for members of Congress.

COLMES: Oh, but members of Congress can...

COULTER: The way I could, for example.

COLMES: Like you do for liberals. But what -- of course, you would never do that toward me. But other members of Congress -- can and should they show open contempt for their colleagues in Congress?

COULTER: Cheney makes a good point that they have no control over who is a member of Congress. It is chosen by -- the members of Congress are chosen by their constituents, and they're...

COLMES: Right.

COULTER: ... extremely limited in -- in taking any sort of disciplinary...

COLMES: But the Republican members of Congress...

COULTER: ... action.

COLMES: ... have been blasted -- Democrats have been blasted -- mostly Democrats blasted...

COULTER: Right.

COLMES: ... for not standing up and saying to Condit, "You should resign." What about Dick Cheney's comments, which seem very mild?

COULTER: Not only that, but he -- I'm not sure if it was just in that clip there, but he also opposed what I think is just a great idea, having a specific, you know, bright-line rule, since there's so much confusion on Capitol Hill...

COLMES: Right.

COULTER: ... "No sleeping with interns." But of course, you know, Cheney can't come out for that because it's a joke! It's...

COLMES: Well...

COULTER: How about -- no -- no lying...

COLMES: Well, you don't want government regulations saying who sleeps with whom.

COULTER: And now that Condit's led the way...

COLMES: Yeah.

COULTER: ... perhaps they can each have their own polygraph machine so they can tell when they are lying.

COLMES: Yeah. I'm glad you...

COULTER: You know, right there...

COLMES: ... come prepared with written material.

COULTER: ... in the office.

COLMES: That's very good.

Susan Estrich, what about this? Dick Cheney almost gave Condit a pass, it seems, in those comments made earlier today to Tony Snow.

SUSAN ESTRICH, USC PROFESSOR, FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: I think Dick Cheney is remarkably honest and straightforward. I mean, his point is basically, if we start this game, where does it stop? I mean, first of all -- and I've been very critical of Gary Condit because I think what he did

really wrong and bad and awful has when the police came to him the first time, he didn't tell all and cooperate in every way he could that might have thrown some light on this investigation.

But the fact that he's had a lot of affairs or who he's had the affairs with is not the stuff most members of Congress can put a mirror up to themselves. And you know, you start judging him, who's next?

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Susan, welcome back to the program. And you have been critical...

ESTRICH: Thanks.

HANNITY: ... but I didn't hear the words "resign," but we're not going to get into that tonight. I want to ask you a question about the news media. I want to ask about this Web site, WeTip. They don't tape. They don't trace their calls. Operators are bound by secrecy. They're not allowed to even reveal to the police the sex of the caller. And -- and this is -- this means this is at a dead end, doesn't it? I mean, that that is the only thing the media has to really go on is a tip from a source like that?

ESTRICH: I think what's happened in this investigation is that they've gotten nowhere. I mean, I don't think anybody is saying otherwise, are they, Sean?

HANNITY: Yeah.

[tom_paine]

12. The usual Bushiganda Tenplate of Lies: Scream the lies, whisper the retractions.

See who remembers. Yawn.

I'm somewhat surprised they aren't goping to use this case to smear yet another Democrat. They could, if they wanted to. 30,000,000 Bushie Not-Sees in this country who agree 100% with the Knoxville Shooter and will 100% believe anything Herr Goebbels v2.0 tells them.

They COULD frame another Democrat with this, but after it served it's purpose the Bushies probably tunred it over to the police to find the actual killer after the propaganda purpose has served.

And for all of us whom the last 8 years has taught us the principles of advertising, marketing, and propaganda, as well as if we had gone to university, any marketer or propagandist (they are mostly one and the same) could tell you that overuse of the same "advertising technique" will cause the sheep to get suspicious.

And the one thing Bushies don't want the sheep to be is suspicious or aware that they arebeing manipulated.

[Enthusiast]

17. Well said, Tom.

Their propaganda effort is now mostly geared toward attempting to discredit Obama's proposal to correct our national problems. I just turned off NPR, the propaganda there is as prevalent as in the mainstream media. It makes my stomach hurt.

[not fooled]

18. "NPR"

= "Neutered Public Radio". Worthless now except for BBC feed. Destroyed by the 'pukes (not that it was ever even close to what it should have been). Mission accomplished!

[deminks]

20. Reports: Arrest close in Chandra Levy slaying

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – An arrest may be near in the nearly decade-old slaying of federal intern Chandra Levy, whose disappearance in 2001 ended Gary Condit's congressional career, several television stations reported.

The California Democrat was romantically linked to Levy, but was not considered a suspect in her death or disappearance. Television stations, KFSN and KCRA in California and WRC in Washington, D.C., reported that police were seeking an arrest warrant.

Levy's parents said Friday outside their Modesto, Calif., home that police called them and told them an arrest was near.

"Your child is dead and gone and it's painful, but we're glad that the police and people are doing something, and investigating, and making a difference so somebody's not on the street to do it again," Chandra's mother, Susan Levy, told KGO-TV in San Francisco.

The parents did not say when an arrest warrant might be issued.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_on_re_us/chandra_levy

[Cleita]

21. Yes, the news jumped on it like a bunny on viagra. I guess that's all we'll hear

from now on.

[stevedeshazer]

22. When the freepers find out it wasn't Gary Condit after all, I'm sure they'll apologize.

:sarcasm:

[GoesTo11]

23. Wonder if it was Morning Joe

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

24. strange how the outcomes of these are so different.

run out of town vs. a cable news host

Not to mention that all most everybody knows who Chandra is, no one is even aware of Lori, May they both rest in Peace.

[Cleita]

28. Joe was a Congressman at the time of the dead intern incident. n/t

[FSogol]

25. That was my thought also. n/t

[mackerel]

27. Condit had it coming...

As we call him in the Valley, Gary Condom.

[LisaL]

29. He was a conservative "family values" democrat having an affair

with an intern young enough to be his daughter. Yea, I really feel sorry for him.
:eyes:

[stevedeshazer]

36. I don't feel sorry for him, I think he's a creep.

But I doubt he's a murderer.

[IDFbunny]

48. Im still on the fence on this

Condit wouldn't have done his own dirty work anyway. Let's see what the arrest brings.

[TheWraith]

41. Yeah, but that's a far cry from being a murderer. nt

[LisaL]

47. Him having an affair with an intern young enough to be his daughter

would have been enough for him to lose his career.

[cosmicone]

34. Condit deserved it ... he voted to impeach Bill Clinton n/t

[joeybee12]

38. Chandra Levy? Oh yeah, the women the media obssessed over while Al Queda was

preparing its attack and the MSM was caught empty handed wondering how this could have happened. Thank God they've learned and now are focused on serious issues in an effort to educate the public instead of titillate and mislead!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

39. Condi Rice could

have gone running through Washington naked waving the August 6 PDB and no one would have noticed.

[joeybee12]

40. Geesh! A photo of her doing that would come in handy...

...for use at the Poison Center to induce vomiting.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

43. Or George Tenet

yelling "It's blinking red, it's blinking red!!!"

Ok, should stop now, I'm making myself nauseous.:o

[joeybee12]

44. You see, it would be a good thing to have at the poison center...

...perhaps both?

[DCKit]

52. The DC PoPo? Shirley, you jest.

These yahoos couldn't find their own assess with both hands. Hell, I got held up not twenty feet from two of DC's finest - then they threatened to arrest me for making a stink about it.

Whoever this guy is, he didn't do it.

[onager]

54. Where was Joe "D.I." Scarborough when it happened?

Just askin'...

[Peace Patriot]

60. Now that we've all forgotten that Chandra Levy left her apartment without her wallet

and keys, and possibly opened her door to her murderer, and also left her packed luggage (she'd made plans to leave DC for good), and--given her MapQuest searches just prior to her disappearance--may have thought she was going to meet someone in Rock Creek Park, they are going to try to pass off an imprisoned Salvadoran immigrant (another news report*) as her killer?

Sorry, there are still too many questions about this murder. And not the least among them is what happened at Condit's meeting with Dick Cheney on the day Levy disappeared and during the very hours of her disappearance, as it turns out. The DC police/FBI initially lied that she disappeared in the mid-morning. Two months later--after Newsweek had permitted Cheney aides to plant Cheney's version of that meeting in Newsweek's pages--they said that, due to the FBI lab's examination of her computer (for 2 months?), they now put her disappearance at approximately 12:00 to 1 pm. In June, Condit had released his schedule for May 1, the day she disappeared, which showed a big hole in his schedule that day, from 12:00 to 3:00, beginning with a meeting with Cheney at 12:00. No one--not reporters, not the DC police, not the FBI--ever questioned Cheney or his aides about that meeting, even to verify that it had taken place--according to the Cheney aides quoted in Newsweek in August. One other possibly important fact: Two days after Levy disappeared, on May 3, Condit--the leader of the 'Democrat' "Blue Dogs"--voted for Bush-Cheney's first tax cut for the rich, a very close and controversial vote, with only 10 'Democrats' voting for it.

There were other things going on in DC at that time that might be relevant. For instance, the Bushwhacks were already engaged in a big shakeup (purge?) of the FBI. There was a House investigation going on. Condit sat on the House intelligence committee, privy to many secrets. Late that same summer, John O'Neill, the FBI agent who was following the Al Qaeda money trail, was drummed out of the FBI on a lame excuse, and his investigation shut down. (He took a security job at the WTC and, one week after taking that job, died in the WTC on 9/11.)

When you think back over these events, through the lens of later developments, you can't help but wonder what that Condit/Cheney meeting was about, why no one questioned Cheney about it, and why the DC/police seemed to manipulate information to give Cheney time to get his story straight (short meeting, maybe 20 minutes, 2 aides present, routine political business--according to the aides who gave this to Newsweek two months after Condit released his schedule). And you can't help but wonder about a lot of other things as well--for instance, Condit apparently had several mistresses. Did Cheney have a spy dossier on him? Was Condit a Cheney operative on the House intelligence committee?

I think what we are seeing with this sudden identification of a murder suspect--someone obviously in no position to defend himself (a Salvadoran immigrant in jail on prior sex charges)--is very possibly the final piece of a cover up--Cheney tidying things up. I think this needs to be seriously investigated, although I have little hope that it will be.

--------

*(The Salvadoran immigrant:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.chandra22feb22,0,2215656.story )

(Note: To lend credence to the story about the computer--and the FBI lab taking two months to correctly estimate her disappearance hours--the DC police conducted a highly visible parade of police rookies in Rock Creek Park in late July. They found nothing. A year after her disappearance, in May 2002 (after 9/11, and well on the way to the invasion of Iraq), her bones were found in Rock Creek Park not far off the path where the search had been conducted.)

[ohio2007]

61. MS-13 Gang Member Charged With Chandra Levy's Murder

El Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique charged with murder. Chandra Levy (April 14, 1977–ca. May 1, 2001) was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in the spring of 2001 and was subsequently found murdered in Rock Creek Park.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=062_1235340694



case closed

;)