Whatever happened to Chandra Levy?

I'm reading a collection of essays & short stories by Chuck Palahniuk & in one he's describing watching the media coverage of 9/11 with friends when one asks if they ever found Chandra Levy, that intern that went missing. I can't even remember the senator or congressman's name that she worked for. He's probably a high paid consultant now helping lobby groups or political action groups or something like that. Gary Condit. I think that was his name. I could Google it in five seconds & I probably will when I'm done writing this. I'll read the Wikipedia entry on Chandra Levy & learn some basic facts that are probably mostly true & still not know what REALLY happened to her. That's the world we live in today. Everyone wants to know everything about everyone but no one really knows the truth, only the image of truth that we project to others. Sarah Palin comments about Paul Revere riding to warn the British & the media & the bloggers (myself included) make fun of her but she's really a scarily accurate reflection of America today. We know things, "we hold these truths self-evident" - I think that's a mangled quote from the Declaration of Independence - but what do we know really? Paul Revere didn't even make it the whole way to Lexington or Concord, he got caught by the British. There were at least two other riders that night but the majority don't know their names. That's not even really the point of this post. The point is instead of passively accepting the vagaries & the bias that is constant spewed at us, we need to look deeper. We need to investigate things on our own. "I can't do that, I have 2.5 kids & a mortgage & a DVR full of America's Got Talent to watch." Well, to co-opt a phrase, you get what you pay for, America. & it's a damn shame.