Levy Family Calls for Lie Detector Test for Condit

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. Gary Condit's lawyer issued another plea for the media to stop focusing suspicion on his client as the family of missing intern Chandra Levy called on the congressman to take a lie detector test.

Rep. Gary Condit's lawyer issued another plea for the media to stop focusing suspicion on his client as the family of missing intern Chandra Levy called on the congressman to take a lie detector test.

The family of the 24-year-old former Federal Bureau of Prisons intern say they question the congressman's truthfulness about when he last spoke to their daughter and are suspicious of other information he may or may not be offering to police.

"Mr. Condit has not been very truthful to me up until now and I think there are things that are unknown and the truth has to come out," Chandra's mother, Susan Levy, told reporters tonight outside her home in Northern California.

On the other side of the nation in Washington, Condit's attorney Abbe Lowell held a news conference shortly thereafter vowing his client would give authorities anything they wanted.

"The congressman is going to make available what police ask for that for that they think is helpful," Lowell said.

But Lowell said he lacked confidence in the reliability of lie detectors and would only consider discussing it with his client if police urged him to do so.

Police can have anything they want, Lowell said, whether it's access to Condit's apartment, phone records or a request that the congressman's entire staff be made available. In fact, Lowell said, the police have already been in Condit's apartment. The congressman invited them there to conduct his very first interview.

When Levy's mother Susan and her attorney, Billy Martin, met with Condit, the congressman claimed to have last spoken with Chandra on April 25, the sources said. But, according to sources, Condit told police he last spoke to Chandra on April 29.

Levy was last seen on April 30, when she canceled a gym membership in downtown Washington. Her last known communication — an e-mail to her parents in California — was received on May 1.