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To: Cisco who wrote (843)	10/10/2000 10:51:54 AM
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To: Cisco who wrote (843)	10/10/2000 10:58:31 AM
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Why won't Bartlett make the letter public? Bush workers not focus of tape probe 10/10/2000 By Pete Slover and George Kuempel / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – George W. Bush's presidential campaign said Monday that the Justice Department has told campaign officials that its staff is not being targeted by a federal grand jury investigating a leaked debate tape – but offered no such assurances to workers for an outside media consultant. The FBI focused on Yvette Lozano, 30, an office administrator for the Bush media company, after she was videotaped Sept. 11 mailing a package at an Austin post office. Ms. Lozano has said the parcel contained not illicit debate materials but a pair of pants that she was returning to the Gap for her boss, Bush media chief Mark McKinnon. "The campaign received a letter saying nobody in the Bush campaign is a target of this grand jury," Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett said Monday. He also said Mr. McKinnon, who runs Maverick Media in Austin, had received prosecutors' assurances that he was not a target of the grand jury. Mr. McKinnon, Ms. Lozano and their lawyers could not be reached for comment. The inquiry began after a package with an Austin postmark arrived Sept. 13 at the office of former U.S. Rep. Tom Downey, a debate adviser to Democrat Al Gore. Mr. Downey turned the packet over to the FBI after determining that it contained printed Bush briefing materials and a videotaped practice debate at the governor's ranch. Mr. Bartlett said the letter from officials of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Unit to the Bush campaign's Washington lawyer appeared to rule out a dirty trick by top Bush aides relating to the leaked debate tape or thievery by a lesser staffer from within the campaign. Mr. Bartlett declined to release a copy of the letter. Federal prosecutors often send "target letters" advising people of their status as the focus of grand jury investigations. More rarely, a letter will be issued to assure people that they are not a target, which can often help secure the cooperation of witnesses. Federal offices were closed for Columbus Day, and FBI and Justice Department officials declined to comment. Along with the letter, the Bush campaign received a grand jury subpoena for copies of confidentiality agreements signed by campaign staff members and outside consultants, Mr. Bartlett said. Also, he said, the grand jury subpoenaed documents that could help establish the value and cost of producing the videotape. That could be significant because one federal law being reviewed by investigators makes it a felony to steal something worth $5,000 or more from a federally funded activity, such as a political campaign. Mr. Bartlett said Bush aides already had offered to turn over those materials and that the subpoena to deliver them by Friday was a formality. Also, a Gap spokesman, Jack Dougherty, said the company already has complied with a subpoena Sept. 26 seeking all records of the McKinnon transaction. Staff writer Michelle Mittelstadt in Washington contributed to this report.