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To: Cisco who wrote (22)	9/24/2000 5:12:22 PM
From: Cisco	Respond to of 1719

Here is the CNN quote from the early transcripts: BLITZER: You know, the uproar over the past few days about a supposed mole that the Gore campaign had in the Bush campaign. You've suspended a young staffer working in the Gore campaign, because he supposedly boasted to a friend that your campaign had a mole buried deep inside the Bush campaign and provided that videotape of Governor Bush preparing for the upcoming debates. Tell us what's going on right now. FABIANI: Well, as you know, someone sent a debate videotape and some debate preparation materials from the Bush campaign to Al Gore's debate preparation partner, Tom Downey. The Gore campaign and Mr. Downey handled this immediately. FABIANI: The material was turned over to the FBI immediately, we notified the media right away. We handled it entirely appropriately. We understand from press reports that the FBI is closing in on the person inside the Bush campaign who did this, and we don't know anything more about it than that. As for the news report that you're talking about regarding our campaign, there is a very low level staffer, a 28-year-old administrative assistant to the field director, who boasted to a friend outside the campaign that he knew about a mole. We've explored that completely, we've done an internal review, there's no evidence whatsoever that there's -- that we know of any kind of a mole within the Bush campaign. We've gotten a sworn affidavit from the 28-year-old indicating that his statement was made without any knowledge or basis in fact, and that's where it is, it's that simple. I think, you know, George Bush has to be worried that he's got a problem in his campaign if his debate materials start showing up on our doorstep. Bottom line though, Wolf, we don't want any part of these materials, if people are sending us stuff, we'll send them right over to the FBI and let the Bush campaign worry about that.