Found at Yahoo News:
Wednesday July 19 7:06 PM ET
Congressman Focuses on Gore Tape
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites)
acknowledged Wednesday that his voice is captured on a videotape
of a White House coffee with donors but dismissed as ``a partisan
political attack'' a Republican congressman's call for a Justice
Department investigation of the matter.
According to Rep. Dan Burton, Gore can be heard suggesting that
Clinton friend and Indonesian businessman James Riady be shown
Democratic TV ads.
``It would indeed be extraordinary for the vice president to
suggest showing political issue advertisements to an Indonesian
billionaire who lives in Jakarta, Indonesia,'' Burton wrote
Attorney General Janet Reno on Tuesday.
``Your Justice Department is completely disinterested in asking a
single question about what appears to be a suggestion by the vice
president to show illegally funded political advertisements to
... Riady,'' Burton wrote.
Gore said Burton's ``interpretation is a partisan political
attack, coming in the months before the election.
``That is to be expected and this is not a surprise. ... This
has all been out there for years,'' Gore said on CNN.
Riady, who has lived in the United States, was able to give money
legally in U.S. elections. In addition, the ads referred to in
the tape have never been declared illegal.
Riady, one of the central figures in the campaign fund-raising
scandal of 1996, is under criminal investigation by the Justice
Department's campaign finance task force for reimbursing
political donors.
Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said
that on a Dec. 15, 1995, tape of a White House coffee with major
political donors, Gore is heard off-camera making the comment,
``We ought to show Mr. Riady ... some of the ad tapes.'' Burton
said the Justice Department has ``chosen to ignore'' the
information about Gore's comment which the congressman supplied
the department ``a very long time ago.'' Gore spokesman Jim
Kennedy made light of Burton's letter.
``Maybe if Mr. Burton has Oliver Stone as a witness we can truly
get to the bottom of this,'' said Kennedy. Hollywood moviemaker
Stone's ``JFK'' propounded a conspiracy theory for the
president's assassination.
Gore apparently made the comment to a Riady acquaintance, Arief
Wiriadinata of Indonesia, whose donations to the Democratic Party
were returned amid questions about their legality, said Burton.
The vice president has been questioned three times in the Justice
Department probe of fund raising, but has never been asked about
his apparent comment regarding Riady.
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