-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52558-2000Sep30.html FBI Looks at Bush Team in Widening Tape Probe By Mike Allen and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday , October 1, 2000 ; A08 AUSTIN, Sept. 30 – While continuing to investigate whether an employee of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's ad firm mailed confidential debate materials to Vice President Gore's camp, FBI agents are looking at whether she was acting at the behest of campaign superiors, an official involved in the case said today. The FBI interviewed Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove, here this afternoon. Rove was the only member of Bush's inner circle who was not questioned a week ago. The interview came three days before the first presidential debate—an indication of how the case has become a distraction at a critical time. A videotape of a Bush debate rehearsal was mailed from Austin to the Washington office of a Gore debate coach. Investigators said forensic evidence links the package to Juanita Yvette Lozano, an assistant to Mark McKinnon, Bush's top media consultant. Bush's campaign expressed full confidence in Lozano today. "We have every reason to believe Ms. Lozano is telling the truth and we stand by her," spokesman Dan Bartlett said. "She is a longtime personal family friend of Mark's—even baby-sitting his own children for years—and we believe she is supportive of Governor Bush. She's worked for him for over a year and we believe what she's saying—that she was mailing a pair of pants on behalf of Mark." Chris Gunter, an Austin lawyer retained by Lozano, said he believes the FBI will go at a measured pace. He compared his client with Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused of planting a bomb during the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. "I think they've learned from past mistakes that it's not wise to do things too fast and jump to conclusions," Gunter said. Federal authorities acknowledge that even if the evidence links Lozano to the package, many questions remain. Federal sources said that even if Lozano's fingerprints are on the materials, it would not necessarily prove she had mailed the package, because she might have handled it earlier. Top Bush officials, even though they are among those being investigated, applaud the expanded investigation because they believe it will force the FBI to look beyond the inside-job theory and consider other possibilities, including the involvement of Democrats, according to campaign aides. Bush officials say the tape probably was copied from one kept at Maverick Media, the Austin firm McKinnon heads. They remain convinced that security could have been breached from the outside. Although publicly the campaign has pointed to Gore headquarters as a potential perpetrator, Bush officials privately allow for the possibility that Democrats in Austin got hold of the materials and mailed them to former House member Tom Downey, who was Gore's sparring partner in practice debates. The Gore campaign released new information received from Downey's lawyer. A typed, unsigned message on plain paper that accompanied the tape said something along the lines of: "Here's some material that might be helpful to you. I'll call in a few days to see if you need anything else." Bush, at his ranch near Crawford, Tex., said today, "I'm confident that nobody who supports my candidacy would have mailed the tape. Somebody that thinks I ought to be president wouldn't have done that." 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