FBI at Congress’ beck and call
Many readers wonder why the FBI got involved in the Levy case. From day one, even before local cops dropped the ball in grilling Rep. Gary Condit, agents have practically muscled the Washington police out of their own investigation. Do the feds even have jurisdiction in such local matters?
The bureau is always brought in on kidnapping and blackmail cases, which are federal offenses. But in this case, there was another reason: A U.S. congressman simply asked the FBI to get involved. On May 7, Condit picked up the phone and requested the FBI join the investigation into Chandra Levy’s disappearance.
That’s all it takes.
“We like to keep congressmen happy,” explained a former FBI agent who helped investigate the robbery of an aide to former Democratic Sen. Howard Metzenbaum. The case involved a Maryland teen-ager and could have easily been handled by local police, but Metzenbaum demanded the FBI get involved.
“When a congressman or senator calls up the bureau, we do a lot more,” the retired agent said.
Not my girlfriend, really
“I went out to dinner with my girlfriend, which by the way is not Anne Marie Smith,” offered Smith’s attorney, Jim Robinson, on “Rivera Live” after the Connie Chung-Condit denial-fest.
WorldNetDaily recently questioned the relationship of Smith and Robinson, seeing that they’re living together at his Seattle home, along with their motives in going after Condit.
Here’s the column that’s got Robinson issuing disclaimers.
Washington Post-Fox-Smith love triangle
The night before Smith went on Fox last month to drop her bombshells about Condit, Robinson told us he got an angry phone call from a Washington Post reporter.
“The reporter yelled, ‘I just found out that you’re doing a piece with Fox after you told me you weren’t going to do anything,'” Robinson said.
Looks like betrayal is in the air. But we’re glad Fox got the scoop. The Post would have just watered it down, or spiked it and forced the reporter to ask Drudge to unspike it.
Gary and Gray
One of Condit’s top aides crows that her boss advised Gray Davis on key issues during his campaign for governor of California. Too bad they were the wrong ones.
WorldNetDaily, in an exclusive, interviewed Condit legal counsel Dee Dee Moosekian. The following quotes, gathered from the cutting-room floor, never made it in the original article:
“The congressman told Gray Davis when he was running for governor, ‘The No. 1 issue that’s going to confront you is going to be water,'” Moosekian said.
“He pulled him aside and said, ‘Look, I want to get you up to speed on these issues and make you realize how important it is,'” she added.
So one of the first things Condit’s pal did as governor was put together a task force to negotiate a water deal with the Clinton administration.
Of course, Condit was wrong about water being the No. 1 issue for the state. It turned out to be electricity. And Davis is now struggling in the polls. Some advice!
Yet, after the election, Davis repaid Condit for what he thought was a favor by naming his son, Chad, to a $111,000-a-year post and his daughter, Cadee, to a $50,000-a-year post in Sacramento.
