ABCNews.com reports in a feature length article. Excerpt:
W A S H I N G T O N, July 11 — If investigators want Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie detector test, his lawyer says they first will have to haggle over the sort of questions that can be asked.
The FBI wants to hook Condit to a polygraph machine and ask him a broad range of questions in its investigation into the disappearance of missing former Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy. After weeks of refusing to detail his relationship with the young woman, Condit has now told police he did have an affair with her. Police now want to know whether the congressman has been honest in answers to other questions.
But Condit’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is cautious. The main sticking point, he said, is over what will be asked. If the questions are narrow, he said, it would be considered. But if the test is a “wide-ranging fishing expedition about his whole life,” Lowell said he would advise Condit that it’s not a good idea.
And a source close to Condit said the California congressman would only consider a test if the questions were kept to a minimum, such as, “Do you know what happened to Chandra Levy?”