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To: Father Terrence who wrote (31388)	8/23/2000 11:19:58 AM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

...and you think that I'm the dumb-dumb?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (31388)	8/23/2000 12:56:52 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Pioneer Press apologizes for slanderous editorial: First, let me apologize for a column that ran on our oped page Tuesday. The column, by Robert A. Jordan of the Boston Globe, was headlined, ``Leak about grand jury works to Gore's advantage.'' The column was written last Friday. It ran in the Globe's Sunday edition. However, it was overtaken by events before it appeared either in the Globe or the Pioneer Press. Jordan focused on a news leak that Independent Counsel Robert Ray had convened a grand jury to examine whether criminal charges should be brought against President Clinton concerning his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky case. The news broke shortly before Al Gore spoke to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles last Thursday. Jordan addressed speculation that the leak had come from Republicans or Ray's office or even the White House itself. ``No doubt the leak was timed to cloud Gore's most important moment in the political sun,'' Jordan wrote. While Jordan was completing the column, however, a federal appeals court judge appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, came forward and said he ``inadvertently'' told a reporter about the grand jury. The statement by Judge Richard Cudahy should have consigned the Jordan column to the waste basket. But somehow it managed to appear in the Globe and our paper -- and perhaps others -- without any mention of Cudahy's admission. This was an editing error. The many readers who called Tuesday and questioned our judgment expected better of us. So do I. The column either should have been pulled or it should have carried an editor's note acknowledging Cudahy's statement. The Globe also is carrying a correction today. pioneerplanet.com