-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39cd80ff64a0.htm FOX NEWS: Low level Bush staffer sent emails to Doyne; Fowler was also reprimanded along with Doyne Politics/Elections Breaking News News Source: FOX Published: 9 23 00 Author: Jeff Mitchell Reuters Posted on 09/23/2000 21:20:15 PDT by Sooner Ten days after a confidential Bush campaign videotape mysteriously arrived at the office of an Al Gore adviser, low-level Bush and Gore staffers were discovered to have been exchanging e-mails, sources told Fox News. Responding to reports that the FBI had tentatively identified a senior staffer in George W. Bush's campaign who sent out the videotape of Bush preparing for the presidential debates, Bush campaign aides Saturday denied that it was one of them and lashed out at the Justice Department for leaking the details of their investigation. "It is completely inappropriate and wrong for the Justice Department to play politics by leaking information in the midst of a presidential campaign," Bush communications director Karen Hughes said. On Sept. 13, the videotape and a package of Bush briefing books arrived at the Washington office of Thomas Downey, a close Gore adviser and former Democratic congressman. The package was postmarked in Austin, Texas � where the Bush campaign is based. Failing to recognize the sender's name, Downey turned the materials over to the FBI, which began a preliminary inquiry. Meanwhile, several "Bush for President" interoffice memos were e-mailed into a personal account from a Bush campaign e-mail address, Republican sources told Fox News. From the personal account, the information was then e-mailed to Michael Doyne, assistant to the national field director for the Gore campaign. Senior Bush aides say the mole is one person e-mailing information to himself at an outside account, although they have not ruled out the possibility of an intermediary or the existence of more than one mole. Doyne has been suspended for joking that he knew of a mole inside of the Bush campaign, Gore communications director Mark Fabiani confirmed on Saturday. Both Doyne and his boss, Gore campaign national field director Donny Fowler Jr., have been unofficially reprimanded for boasting that they "have Austin wired and know what's going to happen before Bush does," campaign sources said. E-mails to Doyne from the mole and Doyne's response to "stay hush-hush on this" are among several pieces of evidence that the FBI already has, according to a DOJ source. The source also said the paper trail appears to stop at Fowler, but may yet reach higher. Doyne has filled out affidavits denying any knowledge or activity with any moles at the Bush campaign and has appeared on television with ABC News denying any knowledge of a mole as well. However, he ammended his affidavit on Friday to admit he had joked with a former fraternity brother about knowing "a mole" in the Bush camp, although their conversation was "not based on any actual facts or any actual knowledge that I had about this subject." Concerning who sent the videotape, there are other possibilities under investigation. The videotapes were kept in two places in Austin � the highly secured Bush headquarters and at Maverick Media, a private media-production house owned by Bush media consultant Mark McKinnon. McKinnon is a registered Democrat whose company has created campaign commercials for Bush's presidential race and, before that, Bush's gubernatorial campaigns. So far no Bush advisers have suggested that McKinnon's party registration might contribute to divided loyalties. Although a DOJ source has told Fox News that the FBI does believe a "Bush campaign person" may have sent the tape to the Gore camp, DOJ sources also say they are also looking at the possibility of theft through Maverivk or perhaps from within Maverick, because of a lack of security after hours because of fire codes and building regulations. Other possibilities under investigation include the possibility that a tape was misplaced or stolen from someone's car, that the Bush campaign might have deliberately sent the tapes to Downey in order to later accuse the Gore campaign of dirty tricks or that an underling staffer either in the Bush campaign or at Maverick might have gotten around security to steal the tape. DOJ investigators said if the Gore campaign had a mole at Bush headquarters, it would seem unlikely that upon receipt of the tapes they would turn them over to law enforcement and potentially destroy the mole's cover. 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