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CONDIT CASE: Exploratory hypothesis |
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by Sam Smith, The Progressive Review
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12 Jul 2001
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OPERATING on the Maine principle of not talking unless it improves on silence, your editor has been quiet about the Condit case. This morning, however, a speculation entered my head that refuses to depart. This may not, I suddenly realized, be a story about one woman's disappearance and one man's transgressions but about a number of women and a number of men. In other words, we may only be seeing the tip of the penis. |
OPERATING on the Maine principle of not talking unless it improves on silence, your editor has been quiet about the Condit case. This morning, however, a speculation entered my head that refuses to depart. This may not, I suddenly realized, be a story about one woman\'s disappearance and one man\'s transgressions but about a number of women and a number of men. In other words, we may only be seeing the tip of the penis.
The possibility that the Condit case has exposed some form of group sex on Capitol Hill - whether involving call girls or faith-based voluntary activity - would go a long way towards explaining the strange way everyone seems to be acting. It might explain the desire of the DC police to keep the Modesto cops from pursuing their own investigation. It might explain the disappearance of not only Chandra Levy but a minister\'s daughter who was involved with Condit who has chosen to go into hiding, not to mention the high stakes legal assistance, the days it took the MPD to get around to checking out Condit\'s pad, and Anne Marie Smith being interviewed for six hours by the FBI and the DC cops, with Smith saying that she told some them some things they didn\'t know.
It would not in any way conflict with the Capitol Hill and Washington tradition of commingling sex, politics, drugs, and even, more significantly, blackmail. The current issue of Adult Entertainment Monthly, for example, reports that \"Archeologists digging just four blocks from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., have unearthed the remains of a 19th-century bordello owned by Mary Ann Hall, a determined 20-something who built and managed the three-story brick building, yet was never busted by police even as dozens of other similar houses in the city were targeted.\"
Later, during Prohibition, the notorious \"Man in the Green Hat\" kept Capitol Hill offices supplied with the substances they prohibited elsewhere. And J. Edgar Hoover is believed to have blackmailed numerous members of Congress over their sexual proclivities much as mobster Meyer Lansky is said to have boasted that he had \"fixed that son of a bitch\" - i.e. Hoover- with photos of Hoover having sex with a close aide. Interestingly, while there is little evidence of the Italian mafia being active in DC, Lansky did have some operations here. Hoover may also have blackmailed Jack Kennedy, an easy target what with his affairs with a mob moll, a movie star with Mafia connections, and an east German spy.
In a revisionist version of the origins of the Watergate affair, not only were the burglars allegedly after evidence of a call girl ring working with the Democratic National Committee, but there were allegations of a similar Capitol Hill operations staffed by secretaries, office workers, and a White House secretary.
Then there was Rep. Barney Frank hiring a male prostitute in 1986 who later claimed he ran a sex ring out of Frank\'s Capitol Hill apartment.
As recently as last year, the ethically challenged Rep. Jim Traficant was trying to work the game the other way, claiming to be \"to be investigating corruption in the U.S. Justice Department\" and alleging that Janet Reno \"is being controlled by a blackmailer who has a video of her cavorting with a call girl.\" What is interesting about this is not that the story is credible but that a member of Congress thought it might be.
One may, as liberals did under Clinton, take the view that all sex is good sex. This ignores, among other things, the blackmail factor. As Condit has demonstrated, not all politicians can wiggle out of these situations as easily as Clinton did. Not all have such forgiving constituencies. In fact, it would not be surprising if some of them were blackmailed during the impeachment hearings.
More importantly, it is probable that politicians are blackmailed not just by domestic opponents but by foreign lands. There are some reports that both the Russians and the Israelis knew about Monica Lewinsky before Americans did. Intelligence investigator Peter Dale Scott thinks that international blackmail and sex with politicians is \"an ongoing, highly organized, and protected operation\" that has \"driven the major scandals of Washington since at least the beginning of the Cold War.\" Scott has also suggested that the mob and lobbyists use call girls for blackmail.
As is the case with stories such as those involving BCCI and the Mena drug operations, everyone involved has something to lose by public exposure of the real story of sex and power in Washington. Hence politics stops at the sex organ\'s edge and the system works together to get things back under control: Republicans, Democrats, and the law. Don\'t forget the DC police department\'s ultimate employer is the U.S. Congress.
And so the endemic is reduced to an isolated incident and life moves on. Like I say, this is only an hypothesis, but it would not be surprising if a young intern on Capitol Hill were to enter a relationship for sex or love and find herself in the midst of something far deeper. Just something to keep in mind. |
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