John LeBoutillier
Wednesday, July 11, 2001

Press reports that he and his too-chatty lawyer, Abbe Lowell, have agreed to take a polygraph test are just plain wrong. Those media outlets are all guilty of an all-too-familiar fault in today’s American society: They do not listen carefully.

Lowell said on Monday afternoon that "if a good offer is made to me I will discuss it with my client."

He never said he or Condit would agree to it.

Here is why:

While polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in a courtroom, they are – when administered properly – very accurate. Can you imagine what would happen to Condit if he took the test, showed a "high level of deception" and those results were then leaked to the media?

The firestorm would envelop him and he would be forced to resign from the House immediately.

Lowell’s job is twofold: 1) to keep Condit out of jail and 2) to keep his political career alive.

Beginning today we will read language about Lowell and the authorities "talking about the parameters" of a possible polygraph examination. In fact, this is a stall tactic by Lowell while he probably has Condit privately take a polygraph administered by someone Lowell selects and swears to secrecy.

Robert Shapiro did this to OJ the day after OJ came back from Chicago. OJ did so badly that Shapiro stopped the test midway, destroyed the test sheets and tapes and swore the tester to lifetime secrecy.

From that day forward Shapiro rebuffed the cops whenever they offered a polygraph.

In this Condit matter, Lowell is not going to expose his client to the ruination certain to come from failing an FBI-administered polygraph – unless Condit sails through the private test with no problems.

Condit’s secretive behavior over the past two months indicates he has much to hide. He will fail any polygraph – unless, as one D.C. lawyer told NewsMax yesterday, he "is a stone-cold sociopath. Those guys can beat any machine."

Assuming, though, that the private Lowell-supervised test goes badly, we will soon see Lowell explaining why he will not agree to a polygraph for his client. He will have to come up with words and excuses not to agree to a test – after everyone believes he and Condit have already agreed to one.

Oh boy, are things going to get testy then!

The media will go nuts when they realize that Condit won’t take the test – and they’ll read it as Condit 'backing off' his pledge of openness and cooperation.

The Levy family will then come forward and accuse Condit of being involved in Chandra’s disappearance.

Condit’s only saving grace would be if the authorities never find Chandra’s body – and thus never find any evidence linking him to a crime.

However, please keep in mind, there have been cases where people have been convicted of murder with no murder victim’s body ever being found!

We are a long, long way from that happening here.

But we are very close – days or a couple of weeks – to the end of Condit's political career.

The minute he dodges the polygraph – or if he should take it and fail – he is toast politically.

Even the Democrats – who stick up for any type of liar, philanderer and abuser as long as he votes Democratic – will then abandon Condit.

Get ready: The next few days will reveal much we have suspected.

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