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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (873)	9/25/2000 1:09:45 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

From the guy who "broke" the Monica story that led to the impeachment of a president: XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUNDAY SEPT 24, 2000 20:02:09 ET XXXXX ABC PUTS SOURCE IN SHADOWS FOR INTERVIEW; DEVELOPS ‘EVIDENCE’ OF POSSIBLE GORE/BUSH MOLE Exclusive ABC NEWS has conducted an on-camera interview with a source who claims a Gore campaign staffer repeatedly bragged to him that there was a mole inside of the Bush campaign! The interview, conducted in shadows to protect the identity of the man, could be aired as soon as Monday, according to network sources. While the network has worked hard to shield the identity of its informant, senior Gore campaign officials obtained his name and home address over the weekend, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Gore officials have reached out to the "increasingly frightened" individual who gave the interview to ABC on Friday. "What did you tell them!?" one Gore campaign staffer demanded to know from the Nashville resident. Separately, ABC NEWS hotshot Jackie Judd and her producer Chris Vlasto are said to be working on additional "video evidence" surrounding the Gore/Bush mole mystery. MORE The Gore campaign’s Michael Doyne, who reported to National Field Director Don Fowler Jr., son of former DNC chair Don Fowler, was suspended this weekend after giving conflicting accounts about the possible mole to ABC NEWS. Doyne bragged there was a mole in the Bush campaign who "knew where Bush was going before Bush knew." Doyne later warned a friend in an e-mail to be "hush hush on the mole." Doyne’s mole talk came before a confidential videotape of Bush preparing for the presidential debate was passed to the Gore team from Bush campaign headquarters in Austin. Gore officials prepared a sworn statement for Doyne to sign that denied any knowledge of a Gore mole in the Bush campaign . Senior FBI officials investigating the case have expressed great interest in the timing of Doyne’s e-mails, according to sources. Gore campaign communications director Mark Fabiani launched a frantic behind-the-scenes spin cycle from Nashville to hold off other media outlets from reporting the Doyne development. "We just took ABC to the airport, they don‘t have a story," Fabiani said to a reporter late Friday, before ABC NEWS published portions of its mole story on the web Saturday afternoon. "The kid signed an affidavit. How can you now go and report something that another network determined was about very little?" The Fabiani spin was similar to White House attempts at lobbying reporters not to pursue the claims of Clinton accuser Juanita Broaddrick. "If you go with the story after NBC News decided not to, there won't be any argument about whether Fox News is right wing or not," White House press secretary Joe Lockhart warned a FOX NEWS correspondent Jim Angle. [NBC later aired its interview with Broaddrick.] ----------------------------------------------------------- Filed by Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant drudgereport.com for updates