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Return of the Chandra Levy case — and illegal alien sex offender Ingmar Guandique

By Michelle Malkin • February 23, 2009 05:02 AM

News broke over the weekend that an arrest may be imminent in the Chandra Levy murder case. There is reportedly DNA evidence linking Levy to illegal alien sex offender Ingmar Guandique. His name should be familiar to those of you who have followed the story over the years. I first wrote about Guandique nearly seven years ago — and I’m seeing history repeat itself again with the MSM’s whitewashing of Guandique’s immigration status (just look at these search results and spot the missing word.)

Here’s the column I wrote in June 2002, still relevant today:

The media’s immigration blinders
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2002

“ILLEGAL ALIEN QUESTIONED IN CHANDRA LEVY CASE.”

Did you miss that headline in the news last week? Well, that’s because no one ran it.

Ingmar Guandique, a violent Salvadoran national who is serving a 10-year sentence for assaulting two female joggers in Washington’s Rock Creek Park last year, was interrogated recently as part of the investigation into the intern murder mystery. But in my review of all 115 news items archived in the Lexis-Nexis database that mention Guandique in connection with the Levy case, not a single story referred to his status as a criminal illegal alien.

The Associated Press described Guandique merely as an “immigrant;” the New York Times called him a “Washington man.” On the basic questions of where Guandique came from, how he got here, and how he managed to stay, the Washington Post-the mainstream media giant closest to the scene of Guandique’s crimes- has printed nothing at all.

Though Guandique reportedly passed lie detector tests, he remains an unofficial person of interest in the Levy case. D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey says the media is making too big a deal of Guandique. Quite the contrary. The glaring omission of Guandique’s immigration status from the mainstream media’s no-stone-unturned Levy coverage is a newsworthy act of negligence as the nation grapples with lax borders and national (in)security.

Only one media outlet, the invaluable Washington, D.C.-based newsweekly Human Events, has published the pertinent facts. Editor Terry Jeffrey reported this week that not only is Guandique an illegal alien, but also that the INS had given him a green light to work in the country legally while his application for “Temporary Protected Status (TPS)” was pending. Guandique’s TPS application was eventually denied, but not before he committed two brutal attacks in the same park where Chandra Levy’s body was found.

TPS is basically a bad-weather pass into the U.S. Whenever a natural disaster strikes, we allow thousands of foreigners to stay here-mostly from Latin America-while their homelands supposedly recover. But the INS doesn’t track down TPS beneficiaries once their status expires. Worse, INS chief James Ziglar recently remarked during a trip to the Mexican border that it would be neither “reasonable” nor “practical” to deport millions of illegal aliens who have snuck across the borders, violated their visas, or overstayed on TPS. How many future Guandiques (or Attas or Almihdhars) are among them? Ziglar doesn’t seem to care. He’s too busy nullifying the immigration laws he’s supposed to enforce.

The public deserves informed analysis of whether fraud-ridden immigration programs such as Temporary Protected Status and other various forms of amnesty have come at the expense of our public safety and the national interest. But how can the question be answered if the press never asks?

Instead of hard-nosed analysis, observed author William McGowan at a forum on immigration and media coverage hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., last week, journalists maintain an “overly romantic” view of the issue. McGowan’s penetrating new book, “Coloring The News,” documents how political correctness has corrupted coverage of myriad policy issues, including immigration. He noted superficial reporting of airport security and visa screening issues in the pro-illegal alien New York Times before September 11, sympathetic stories on providing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, and the flippant title of a bleeding-heart Times magazine cover piece a few years back: “What Immigration Crisis?”

Another panel member and veteran immigration analyst, Lodi (Calif.) News-Sentinel columnist Joe Guzzardi, reported on the results of a 1,500-article review he conducted for NumbersUSA.com, a grass-roots reform group, to gauge fairness and balance of immigration coverage. “Very few stories met the reporters’ definition of fair and balanced,” he said. Most news stories are frontloaded with quotes from illegal immigration and open borders advocates, while opposing views are buried and marginalized.

Indeed, most editors still can’t even bring themselves to use the term “illegal,” preferring the flagrantly biased euphemism, “undocumented.”

Questions about the adequacy of immigration news coverage, as the Center for Immigration Studies noted, are longer academic. It’s “a matter of life and death.” When will the media take off the rose-colored blinders and start reporting the true costs of our continuing, criminal-friendly immigration policies?

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#630652

On February 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm, WarEagle82 said:

Like so many deviants Chappy seems to oversexualize everything. Now he sees “sexual tension” where I assure you any normal person would see contempt, disdain and disgust.

And what we have here is no romantic comedy. Try “farce” if you need a theatrical analogy. You pretend to love America and democracy while we all actually do.

Chappy, whatever you are, you ain’t my type! The only difference is that I know it and you seem to fantasize about, well, about all too many things.

You may fantasize about being Harry and Sally at the same time for all I know when you are out trolling for tranny prostitutes with Barney Frank and his former pimp roomie. But, rest assured, I do not.

Now I really need a shower.

On February 23rd, 2009 at 10:27 am, chapoutier said:

Common kids, can’t we just all get along? I do love the sparring, though! You guys are good!

Like any great romantic comedy, the sexual tension between WarEagle and I manifests itself in open hostilities until the last 10 minutes of the film. I am not sure if he is the Sally to my Harry or vice versa, though.
#630663

On February 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm, BlackFlag55 said:

Bless your hearts. Nobody believed Clancy, either, until planes flew into the trade center. Because, you know, people who post on forums like these are so much more informed than the rest of the Real World.

I did not say the Soviets trained Chandra Levy. That … is a template. A template which is endlessly reproduced. They only have one game plan and they keep using it because it works. You … keep falling for it. “Watch my left hand, watch my left hand, watch my left hand” – while they rob you with their right hand. If you think there’s a shred of difference between the current Democratic Party and the Communist Party of the 50s and 60s and 70s, then you need to read something other than a Gamer’s Manual.

The Sparrow School taught more than women. They taught the teacher how to teach. From the Sparrow School came all sorts of people trained in how to operate a template school. The use a of honey trap, how to get in close to an otherwise alert politician. This is NOT NCIS and ridiculous machinations. This is simple, trade craft 101. It’s a rare man who can resist being hit on, when the hitter is working for the Other Side and believes in what she’s doing. many a young girl (think Monica Lewinsky) get their kicks from playing dangerous games, or have you not graduated high school, yet and run into Bad Girls? It’s astonishing that you haven’t considered that evil swine like the Democrats haven’t been taking specific explicit instruction from Communist and Marxist operators from former regimes. Good Lord, the Kennedy family bought – whole cloth – an entire private counter-intelligence agency back in 1990. Took them off the market, staffed with some of our best and brightest minds from the world of retired military intel.

In the world of corporate espionage and counter-intelligence it’s estimated there are well over 10,000 professionals employed outside the corporate world. In your fevered imaginations would it ever have occurred to you that the CEO of Hewlett Packard would go down on federal criminal charges of spy craft and related crimes? That’s just the world of business. The world of politics is infinitely more dangerous. Ask Jim McDougal, Mary Mahoney, Ron Brown for pete’s sake. Ask Admiral Boorda why he committed “suicide” over a misplaced medal (talk about yeah, right). William Colby suddenly got an urge to go canoeing and jumped up from his dinner and ran to the water??? You’ve got to be kidding me. How about Jerry Parks, Kathy Ferguson or Bill Shelton? Rings no bells? Of course not. You;re Not Paying Attention. Clarke Feister, Asst Secty Air Force dead in Alabama. Did you ever hear anything again from Charles Hayes? For that matter, what happened to Patsy Schroeder after she ’suddenly’ resigned when Charles Hayes was making the rounds of Senate offices? You think all these things aren’t connected?

Wow. Just a great big wow.

As to Black and Flag, more history reading for you. One of this nation’s greatest heroes went to war against the District of Columbia under a black flag. Do some research.
#630671

On February 23rd, 2009 at 3:05 pm, chapoutier said:

It’s a rare man who can resist being hit on, when the hitter is working for the Other Side and believes in what she’s doing. many a young girl (think Monica Lewinsky) get their kicks from playing dangerous games, or have you not graduated high school, yet and run into Bad Girls?

Don’t you think these “sparrow schools” (which by the way I have tried to research. All I get are Tom Clancy references)…anyway, don’t you think these “sparrow schools” would try to use some, uhhh, how do I say it…attractive women to seduce these powerful men? You know just to increase their chances?
#630678

On February 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm, chapoutier said:

Chappy, whatever you are, you ain’t my type!

That’s what Sally said about Harry, right up until they fell in love and lived happily ever after.
#630713

On February 23rd, 2009 at 3:37 pm, cabrerski said:

I’m with Chap on the need for “attractive women” to make the trap complete (not much honey). Anyone else think that these women (Levy, Lewinsky, et al.) were just insecure power groupies?
#630801

On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:33 pm, WarEagle82 said:

Well, Chappy, dream on cause I go home to my wife and kids every night. You can play your Harry/Sally delusions, alone or with your deviant buddies downtown all night, every night. I will be at home enjoying a more real and normal relationship with my wife and kids.

I already fell in love and am “in process” with the “happily ever after.” Best luck to you and Barney Frank.

On February 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm, chapoutier said:

Chappy, whatever you are, you ain’t my type!

That’s what Sally said about Harry, right up until they fell in love and lived happily ever after.
#630809

On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm, chapoutier said:

Well, Chappy, dream on cause I go home to my wife and kids every night.

So do lots of other folks “on the down-low”, right?

But alas, I guess I will have to pine for you from afar.
#630826

On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 pm, WarEagle82 said:

Seriously, have you guys seen pictures of Levy and Lewinski? These two young ladies were NOT raging beauties. If a state intelligence agency were going to trap someone I think they might employ a little more “honey” in their effort. Not that Clinton needed anything more than a place, mind you. Talk about a hound dog!

Of course, 100 years from now, I am sure we will all find out that it was really Garry Condit that caused the fall of communism and that the Soviets were after him for that. And used a very plain girl to entrap him.

“Col. Flagg” is reading to many bad spy novels.

On February 23rd, 2009 at 3:37 pm, cabrerski said:
I’m with Chap on the need for “attractive women” to make the trap complete (not much honey). Anyone else think that these women (Levy, Lewinsky, et al.) were just insecure power groupies?
#630827

On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:49 pm, cabrerski said:

I’m sure they had great personalities…
#630829

On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm, WarEagle82 said:

I am sure you know all about “livin’ down-low,” common STDs associated with deviance, and lots of other “special things.” I expect you and your buddies are regulars at the Folsom Street Fair.

And thank you kindly for pining from a considerable distance.

On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm, chapoutier said:

Well, Chappy, dream on cause I go home to my wife and kids every night.

So do lots of other folks “on the down-low”, right?

But alas, I guess I will have to pine for you from afar.
#631049

On February 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm, Bogtrotter said:

As is my habit, I read this story here then went over to one of the more popular leftist lib sites to read their take on it. I actually had to do a search and look through multiple threads over the past few days to find any mention at all of the suspects illegal status. And when someone did ask about his status the response was “Would you feel better about it if he was legal” and “What does that matter.” The lengths they will go to for political correctness is astounding.
#631080

On February 23rd, 2009 at 8:57 pm, garydt said:

Hey Chap, you mentioned earlier that you would not think Rush L. had any women that were interested in him unless Rush had paid them. I don’t get to listen to him often but everytime I do I hear women all the time slurp all over him on how they would love to be with him. Not all women are Obamaphites or Mathewites and not one think alike bloc.