-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- FBI: Gore Changed Answers in Meeting By Pete Yost Associated Press Writer Friday, Feb. 11, 2000; 6:06 p.m. EST WASHINGTON In FBI interviews, Vice President Al Gore changed his answers when confronted with documents in a fund-raising investigation, and suggested he may have missed a key discussion during a meeting because he drank too much iced tea, FBI documents show. In a 10-month span in 1997 and 1998, Gore's initial denials to the FBI gave way to other explanations from hazy memory to the possibility he was in the bathroom when the president and political aides discussed the sensitive topic of fund-raising phone calls, FBI memos show. On the campaign trail in this year's race for the presidency, Gore has tried to neutralize his role in the fund-raising controversy of 1996 by saying he made a mistake in phoning prospective donors from the White House during the Clinton-Gore re-election effort. But political opponents from Bill Bradley to the Republican Party are raising a more fundamental question: whether the vice president tells the truth. The latest effort in that direction came this week, when the Republican National Committee's research division circulated a three-page e-mail entitled, "Did Al Gore Mislead the FBI?" The RNC focused on portions of FBI interview summaries released two months ago by Congress. "The Republican Party has no agenda, they have no vision and they have no message," said Gore press secretary Chris Lehane. "The only thing they can do is focus on discredited charges from the past and they do that at their own peril. "Voters have showed time and time again that they reject that approach in favor of candidates who talk about the voters' future," Lehane added. One FBI summary stated that in a 1997 interview, Gore said "discussions of the fund-raising calls for him and the President would not have been discussed" at a key 1995 meeting. The summary added that "the issue of the Vice President and the President making fund-raising calls would have probably been referred to in the November 21 (1995) meeting, but probably only in passing." Gore also said "the number of telephone calls to be made by the President and Vice President was never discussed with him and he doubts that the issue was ever discussed with the President," the FBI summary added. "At the November 21 meeting, the topic of discussion was probably the DNC budget outlook and discussions regarding the potential sources of income." Gore's account of the meeting took a new turn 10 months later when handwritten notes turned up which appeared to quote the vice president as talking about fund-raising phone calls at the meeting. Gore aide Davis Strauss apparently took the notes. In the later FBI interview, Gore said 23 times that he was unable to recall aspects of the Nov. 21, 1995 meeting and other fund-raising issues brought up by the FBI. One handwritten note from the Nov. 21 meeting states: "VP: 'Is it possible to do a reallocation for me to take more of the events and the calls?'" The vice president's allocation is typed in as 10 calls. Another note states: "VP: 'Count me in on the calls.'" Gore "did not specifically recall the (reallocation) quote, seemingly attributed to him," said the FBI summary. "He offered that ... it sounds like the kind of thing he would have said. ... He felt it was the role of the Vice President to take the load off the President. ... He also could not recall" the count-me-in "quote on that page, also seemingly attributed to him." Trying to explain other parts of the meeting that he said he didn't recall, Gore told the FBI that he normally sits next to the president in such meetings and that the two sometimes consult while the meeting is going on, thereby missing the surrounding discussion. 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