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...minister told the Modesto Bee that when news of Levy's disappearance first broke, and Condit, through staff, expressed concern about his "good friend," Jennifer Thomas had shouted at the television, "That's a lie!" Her father also claimed that he had received an anonymous phone call warning him not to talk. When reporters showed up at the family doorstep the day his story went public, they were greeted with a handwritten note: "I never met that Congressman who's involved in all this...I don't even know how both me and my father got mixed up in this...
...House Oversight Committee investigated payola, the record industry's system of bribing disc jockeys and program managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual term rock-and-roll to jump music. (By the way, that's a lie; the phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good ol' rhythmatic.") Freed had been his own worst witness, confronting the committee, contradicting himself under...
...Washington lawyer Jim O'Dea says that in order to be classified as obstruction, a lie would have to be about something material to the case, and Condit could argue that lying about an affair wasn't material. Also key would be exactly what questions the police asked; if they weren't precise, and if Condit managed to deflect them, a jury might simply laugh at the cops' ineptitude...
...TIME.com: Gary Condit agreed this week to take a lie detector test about his involvement in Chandra Levy's disappearance. How can any information coming out of that test be used...
...instrument measures different kinds of physiological parameters, for example, perspiration and respiration, your rate of breathing. One of the big problems here is that it's possible to get what looks like a lie that's really the physiology of the person, responding to the situation...