Besides, since when has silence become an admission of guilt?
There are two different issues here: legal issues, and PR issues.
Legally, you are right. Condit has no obligation to tell us, the Levys, or anyone anything. The thing is, he wants to be re-elected. So what may be legally proper is not smart from a PR point of view. He NEEDS good PR if he wants to win his next election, right?
From a PR point of view, this man has shot himself in the foot, countless times. Do I feel sorry for him? Not at all. He knew the risks. He took his chances. He wanted to philander and lie and cheat. Fine. But if he gets caught being unfaithful (and in such a spectacular way!) then he pays the price. He’s a public figure, he’s gotta KNOW that such a story will be BIG. But he decided he needed to have all those affairs anyway. And he’s paying the price for the risks he took. And he’s made SO many stupid missteps (from a PR point of view) so things are probably 100% worse for him than they might have been. If only he been more candid from the beginning. But he decided not to do that. How many stupid mistakes can one person make? Why should I feel sorry for someone so stupid and so arrogant?
Didn’t he learn anything from the Clinton affair? The American public can be very forgiving if you just 'fess up right from the git go. It’s all done with. Yeah yeah, so he boinked an intern, he fessed up, yadda yadda yadda. But he had to keep on lying, and acting evasive, and doing lame stuff like trying to hide the watch box. Anyone that stupid earns the bad PR they get, in my opinion.
He may not be legally obligated to talk to the Levys, but I think he is morally obligated to apologize to them for lying to them at the beginning. Mrs. Levy asked him if he was having an affair with her daughter, he lied. I doubt that made her admire and trust him more.
Minor quibble…this is meaningless. I never thought he had anything to do with it until the brother surfaced. I havent’ been paying anything but the most peripheral attention, so I don’t know the current status of the brother and his alibi, but if Condit is in any way responsible, the most likely and believable way is through the actions of someone else. That he has a criminal for a brother who supposedly would do anything for him, well, that sheds a whole different light on it, in my opinion.
But like I said, I’m not keeping up, I just wanted to point out that Condit having an alibi is kinda beside the point. I don’t see Congressmen personally killing young girls and stuffing their bodies in trunks…but getting someone else to do it? Easily imagined.
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First, when you lie to the police who are investigating a disappearence, you are automatically a suspect and warrant a much closer look. He brought that on himself.
Second, if a woman disappears, anyone she was romantically linked with is a possible suspect because she is possibly dead. And as disappearences go, the more the police know about exactly what she was doing in the days prior, the better chance they have of finding her. As I see it, he obstructed the investigation.
Do I think he killed her? I have no idea. Is there any evidence that he killed her. Not that I have heard about. Does this mean the police should not keep investigating? No freaking way. IMHO, the police think he’s somehow involved in her death(yeah, they think she’s dead). If they didn’t think he was involved, they wouldn’t waste their time and resources.
I’m of two minds about the media circus aspect. One, if the Levy’s hadn’t pushed and pushed, this missing person’s case would be at the bottom of a large stack of files and would never really get any attention. Two, the attention now hampers the investigation rather than pushing it forward. I don’t think the police can do their best work with reporters watching and second quessing their every move.