Word: conditioned
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Gary Condit had nothing to do with Chandra Levy's disappearance, he may have become a classic example of the old adage about the cover-up being worse than whatever he might have done. "You advise your clients not to have any discussions concerning a case with anyone else," said one veteran Washington defense lawyer. "But people do it routinely. Even for smart, sophisticated people, the instinct is to tell others 'No, don't tell (the investigators)'" what happened...
...enforcement authorities spent six hours Wednesday talking to flight attendant Anne Marie Smith about, among other things, Condit's role in an attempt last month to persuade her to sign what she maintains is a false affidavit about their relationship. She'll be spending more time with investigators Thursday, but it's still a long way from here to an indictment for obstructing justice or suborning perjury. For one thing, it's extraordinarily difficult to nail someone for a cover-up when there's no evidence he was involved in the underlying crime - assuming, of course, that there...
...forbid if she's dead and they find evidence on her body that creates an association with Condit, then he's got to explain that. Even that is not absolute proof, but it's suspicious. Part of forensic science is interpreting the evidence, and you can interpret in different ways. Not only do you have to reconstruct the events leading up to the crime, but after you do the analysis you've got to interpret...
...Condit being treated as a murder suspect, though there is no murder investigation at this point, and the police insist that he isn't a suspect...
...think there's no question that Condit is a suspect. They don't want to say that he's a suspect because at this point there's no crime. She may have committed suicide, she may have been abducted, she may have left the country. She may not want to be found, though I think that's extremely unlikely. Someone can be convicted of murder without a body, but there's no evidence of a crime yet. They have to be careful calling him a suspect. He's the center of attention, basically...