Editor's Note: This incendiary article appeared as the weekend headliner at EtherZone.com;
but EtherZone.com went down on Saturday and has yet to reemerge; as well, several regular
writers for EtherZone.com are reporting that e-mail to editor/publisher Bob Momenteller is
bouncing back. This is doubly suspicious, as a related article on Gary Condit, written by
former Congressman John LeBoutillier, was yanked inexpicably by NewsMax.com  two
weeks ago, and was returned to the spotlight by none other than EtherZone.com.
We'll follow this story, with breaking developments on the strange case of Gary Condit
and the missing intern, Chandra Levy.

It is an odd juxtaposition: just as the FBI is transferring the Chandra Levy investigation to its "Cold Case Unit"
(the one that did such a good job solving the death of Vince Foster), with the explanation that, or so CBS's
Jon Stewart is reporting, "local police have put an inappropriate emphasis on the role of  Gary Condit in the case,"
humble armchair sleuths have learned that on May 5, Condit made a panicked-telephone call
(the "I think I might be in some trouble" call) to stewardess-cum-galpal Anne Marie Smith, from a pay phone
in front of a McDonald's fast-food joint way out in Luray, Virginia., at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains
--some 80 miles from his Washington D.C. digs.

Posters at FreeRepublic.com, hearing this odd tidbit as reported on FoxNews, July 17th (with Rita Cosby
continuing to perform a genuine public service in keeping the world to-date on this story), uncovered some
strange facts about Luray, Virginia:

· That it is some 80 miles away from his Washington D.C. digs

· That it is renowned for its caverns (according to restaurant and motel-desk area travel brochures)
(a Google search for Luray, Virginia, will produce all sorts of references to the "famous Luray Caverns")

· That it is reputed to be a haven for motorcycle gangs, of the 1%er variety . . .

And because the media, incredibly, has not followed through with the basic question, that being:
"Congressman, What was the purpose of your visit to a remote part of Virginia, a long way away from
your Congressional office, and how did you get there, and why did you feel compelled to call Anne Marie
Smith from a pay phone in front of a McDonald's restaurant, to say that you 'think I might be in some trouble';
and, specifically, what was the nature of that 'trouble' that you felt you might be in?"; . . . because no one else
is asking these questions, I thought I would take the time to do so, now.

Condit has yet to make a public statement, other than he and Levy were "good friends"; but he made a
potentially huge misstep whilst attempting to recall his own schedule during the last day of Ms. Levy's
last known day on this Earth; to wit:

· Condit was NOT with "off-air" ABC reporter Rebecca Lynch from between 6:30-7:30pm, May 1,
as was previously reported to Washington D.C. police by Condit's chief of staff Mike Lynch, who,
on June 29, released a timeline of the Congressman's activities during the days in question.

The restaurant meeting, which ostensibly served as a discussion between Condit and reporter Cooper
on various House Agriculture committee goings-on, took play on May 2--two days AFTER Levy was
last seen, and a day after the last known activity coming from her cell-phone or computer via the Internet).
Here we have one full hour unaccounted for by Gary Condit on the day that Levy might have left this
Earth and a bald-faced "error" in Condit's timeline, as offered by his chief of staff to D.C. police.

Furthermore, according to Su-Lin Nichols, a spokesperson for ABC News, Ms. Cooper has "not been
contacted by any law enforcement authorities." (Source "Washington's Incurious Police," WSJ  July 18;
and from "Police Ignore Condit's Fault Alibi," Salon, Jake Tapper, July 18)

· We do know that Mr. Condit met with Vice President Dick Cheney at 12:30pm, May 1, in a meeting
that has been put at roughly 45 minutes in duration by White House sources; but the timeline released by
chief of staff Mike Lynch reveals that there is no evidence of the whereabouts of his boss from between
1:15 and 3:30pm, when he was seen attending a constituents' meeting. Recall: Ms. Levy's last known
activity (or the last activity reported by her computer log) was 1:30pm.

There is also a question as to the roughly 60 minutes that Mr. Condit is supposed to have spent at a
doctor's office later that same day (May 1, 2001), from between 5:00 and 6:00pm. Were I D.C. police
and/or FBI, I would want to know the doctor's name, address, the purpose of the Congressman's visit,
and would, of course, want to verify with said physician and attendant nurses/receptionist that Condit was,
indeed, present at the doctor's office during this period.

In sum: Gary Condit, clearly the strongest non-suspect in this case, and who had maintained a sexual
relationship with Chandra Levy, has fully three and one-half hours of unexplained absences in his schedule,
on the day that Chandra Levy--who was, as the media has just revealed, surfing Condit's House Agriculture
Committee Web site and also various media sites, including Washington City Paper, Washington Post and
the Drudge Report--is last reported to have been alive.

It is curious that still available online in the Washington City Paper, is an in-depth 1999 story of another
dead intern, one Joyce Chiang. At 26, young and sexy (FBI profilers, are you paying attention?), Ms. Chiang,
who interned for Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), in an office then-directly adjacent to Condit's, was last seen
at a Starbucks coffee shop in Dupont Circle, January 9, 1999; on April 1, a paddling canoeist found Chiang's
corpse washed up in the Potomac, south of Belle Haven Marina in Fairfax County. There is not much more
to be said about the similarities between the two interns, other than that Chiang had also left behind in her
apartment her pager (Levy, her cell phone); and, that the last call Chiang she received on that pager was
from a pay phone at Dulles Airport. To-date, D.C. police have never identified Chiang's last caller.
 

We also have former Congressman John LeBoutillier's deeply-disturbing anecdotal report that Mr. Condit might like to take a walk on the wild side, as it were; and what with the attorney for Anne Lee Smith divulging recently that Condit enjoyed sexual excitement of the sort that was "not normal for a heterosexual man," and with growing interest in the contents of the "forbidden closet" in the Congressman's apartment and "DNA evidence" having reportedly been found all over Condit's carpets, I, for one, won't be surprised when Mr. LeBoutillier's report is verified as being true, but only as the tip of the iceberg.