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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (8672)	12/11/2000 4:55:17 AM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Yes, Gore made the "offer" of a full "recount" (which was not his to offer by the way) because he was flailing for ANY way to change the LEGITIMATE count! He hoped that Bush would accept and thereby lend legitimacy to his ILLEGITIMATE reinterpretation (NOT recount).

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (8672)	12/11/2000 6:29:50 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

US investigator follows claim of Reno vendetta against Sydney-based lawyer By John Macgregor A high-powered Washington investigator will visit Australia to study suggestions that the US Attorney-General, Ms Janet Reno, may have used the FBI in a vendetta against a political rival - a lawyer now practising in Sydney. Mr Joseph Gersten is seeking refugee status in Australia on the basis of "a well-founded fear of political persecution" in the US. He was a rival of Ms Reno in Florida Democratic politics in the 1980s and early 1990s. She laid drug and prostitution-related charges against him in 1992. The Chief Counsel of Washington's powerful House Committee on Government Reform, Mr James C. Wilson, will come to Sydney early next year after receiving fresh evidence concerning Mr Gersten. He says he wants to "talk to Gersten, and also to Australian law-enforcement authorities" about the FBI passing "raw and unsubstantiated" information on Mr Gersten to the Australian Federal Police. The new evidence comes in documents subpoenaed from the Justice Department, the State Attorney's Office in Florida, and leaked to the House committee from Australian Government departments. The committee recently furnished Mr Gersten's legal team with a copy of a report on him, written by Nautilus Investigations and Security Pty Ltd, a Sydney company. According to the US Embassy in Canberra, Nautilus "volunteered" the report to it. The report casts serious aspersions on Mr Gersten - which he says are false. In a covering note, Nautilus investigator Mr Langdon Rogers pitches for business to the embassy, and offers to "return" Mr Gersten - apparently to the US. Nautilus's report has been sent under US Embassy letterhead to the Commissioner of the Federal police, Mr Mick Palmer. Tomorrow in Washington, Mr Wilson will interview Ms Susan Curtis, the FBI agent apparently responsible for sending the letter on Mr Gersten to the Federal police while she was a legal attaché at the Canberra embassy. Information about Mr Gersten's character was divulged to the NSW Law Society and the Immigration Department by the AFP in the mid-1990s. There has since been an attempt to withdraw his certificate to practise law; and his application to live in Australia as a "skilled migrant" has been refused. The FBI, Mr Palmer, Ms Reno and her successor as Florida State Attorney, Ms Katherine Rundle, have declined to comment on the Gersten matter. The Prime Minister, Mr Howard, was recently briefed on the case by advisers. Ms Reno's moves against Mr Gersten began in 1992, when she was a Florida State Attorney. In that year, she laid the drug and prostitution-related charges against him. The evidence for these charges has been seriously eroded by subpoenaed FBI documents which the House committee has just released to Mr Gersten's legal team. These "302s" (reports of witness interviews) put the time of Mr Gersten's alleged offences at 11 to 11.30pm on April 29, 1992. The offences are claimed, by the State Attorney's Office, to have occurred between 6.15 and 7pm. From 9pm onwards on the night in question, Mr Gersten had credible alibis. Mr Gersten says these newly released documents "have been deep-sixed [suppressed] for several years, obviously because they directly contradict the case against me by State Attorney Reno and her successor". A Bush victory in the US election would enable a Republican attorney-general to act on the House committee's work, including that related to Ms Reno's alleged abuses of power. Sources close to the committee believe this may include Mr Gersten's case. smh.com.au