Former congressman Gary Condit's defamation lawsuit against Dominick Dunne has been tossed out in a 22-page opinion that basically says the Vanity Fair scribe has a right to his opinion, even if his opinion involves blaming Condit for the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy. Well, it wasn't quite that simple. This lawsuit is, of course, Condit's second against Dunne; the two settled the first one, but when Dunne went on Larry King Live and speculated, to guest host Bob Costas, that, "I think he knows more about what did happen than he has ever said," Condit launched another suit against him in November 2006 on the grounds that Dunne inferred Condit was hiding something from authorities. But Dunne's magical phrase? "I think." It's like "allegedly," only stacked with personal thought! All this is just one of a half dozen lawsuits — none yet seeing a courtroom trial — that Condit and wife Carolyn have filed since 2001, when Levy disappeared and the media fingered Condit as the culprit. With his vindication, Dunne is free to return to obsessing over Princess Di, Phil Specter, Michael Jackson, and, inevitably, Christie Brinkley.