At 10:04 PM -0400 7/9/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:56:12PM -0500, measl@mfn.org wrote:
Congresscritters and other political vermin are most assuredly "special objects". Is there *anyone* who has not realized this yet?
Right. It was former AG Thornburgh who noted on a talk show yesterday that the cops still hadn't searched the 'critter's home (see mccullagh.org for photos, natch). Standard procedure in any other investigation, he said.
Had Condit been an unemployed chemist living with his parents in Vancouver, Washington, his house would have been raided by ninjas and his house tossed. But Condit is not that shlub. Instead, 10 weeks after being the obvious suspect in a missing person case (*), Condit has had plenty of time to sanitize his place. And to let time cause the trail to go cold. (* Most missing persons cases involving adults are cases where the adult has vanished because he or she does not want to be found. Or because they took off to Atlantic City without telling others. This case is quite different. Chandra Levy is almost certainly rotting in a grave out past Winchester. Whether Condit did it, or his angry wife did it, or he hired a hitter to do it is unclear at this time, but the "hands off" treatment he has gotten is in shocking contrast to the dawn raids delivered to Bell. And so it goes.) --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns