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Gore's E-Mail Trail: Long-Missing Messages Brought To Light
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2000
(AP) Newly disclosed White House e-mail messages bolster the
argument made by opponents of Vice President Al Gore that a
Buddhist temple event he attended was a political fundraiser.
The long-missing messages, provided Friday to the House
Government Reform Committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind.,
also show that Gore's office was informed of an offer from a
businessman to raise $250,000 if a White House coffee were
arranged with President Clinton.
Gore critics have maintained for four years that the temple event
and the coffees, 21 of which had the vice president as host, were
fundraisers. The White House has always denied that they were
fundraisers.
The newly disclosed e-mail is part of a batch of over 100,000
e-mail messages that the White House never properly archived. As
a result, the messages weren't reviewed to determine whether they
should have been sent under subpoena to investigators on topics
ranging from fund raising to Whitewater and impeachment.
They were reconstructed recently from backup tapes and are being
turned over to Congress. They were provided this summer to
Independent Counsel Robert Ray and the Justice Department, which
had subpoenaed them.
While the e-mail provides new ammunition to Gore's opponents, the
White House says the material in the e-mail contains �nothing of
significance.� Spokesman Jim Kennedy said the Gore staffer who
referred to the temple event as a fund-raiser was questioned
about it in Congress three years ago.
�There is nothing in this material that sheds any new light on
this old debate,� said Kennedy.
Karen Hughes, spokeswoman for Republican presidential candidate
George W. Bush, said the newly disclosed e-mail material is �yet
another piece of evidence that calls into question the vice
president's credibility when he says he didn't know that a
fund-raising event was a fund-raising event.�
The e-mail shows the Gore staff considered the April 1996 event
at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple near Los Angeles to be a
fundraiser. Gore originally claimed it was a community outreach.
He later said he knew it was donor-related.
�Currently, we are committed in San Jose and LA for fund-raising
events,� said one staff e-mail on April 9, 1996, three weeks
before the event. That message included a draft official schedule
for two fund-raisers that day - one at the temple and one in San
Jose.
Copyright 2000, The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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