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To: Sully- who wrote (34704)	6/25/2010 1:17:43 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Woman Claims 'Unwanted Sexual Contact' With Gore; No Charges Filed Associated Press Published June 24, 2010 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland police say they investigated allegations that former Vice President Al Gore had "unwanted sexual contact" with a massage therapist during an October 2006 visit, but they found insufficient evidence to support the woman's claims. Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said Wednesday an attorney representing the woman contacted police in late 2006. Schrunk said the woman refused to be interviewed by detectives and didn't want the investigation to continue. But the woman contacted police in January 2009 and gave a statement, saying Gore tried to have sex with her during a massage appointment at the upscale downtown Hotel Lucia. Gore reportedly was registered at the hotel as "Mr. Stone." Read the police reports at OregonLive.com Gore family spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the former vice president had no comment. Gore and his wife announced June 1 they were separating. The National Enquirer first reported the allegations Wednesday, identifying the accuser as a 54-year-old woman. Her name has not been released. A police report prepared in 2007 said the alleged incident happened on Oct. 24, 2006. Gore was in Portland to give a speech on climate change. According to the report, the woman canceled appointments with detectives on Dec. 21 and 26 of that year. Her attorney canceled another meeting set for Jan. 4, 2007, and said the matter would be handled civilly. "This case is exceptionally cleared as (the woman) refuses to cooperate with the investigation or even report a crime," the report states. The case was reopened in January 2009 after the woman contacted police. Detectives interviewed her but determined there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations, Portland police said in a news release. In a transcript of the interview released by police, the massage therapist said she was doing requested abdominal work on Gore. She claimed he he started to moan, demanded she go lower, and later grabbed her hand and shoved it toward his pubic area. She alleged he later tried to have sex with her and began caressing her before she squirmed out of his grasp. The woman said she didn't immediately contact police because she feared "being made into a public spectacle" and having her reputation destroyed. Detective Mary Wheat, a Portland police spokeswoman, said the woman contacted detectives this month and asked for a copy of her statement. According to Wheat, the woman said she planned to take her case to the media. .

To: Sully- who wrote (34704)	6/29/2010 12:24:17 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Sex, Lies, and Al Gore By Robin of Berkeley American Thinker Did Al Gore sexually attack a licensed massage therapist in Portland in 2006? I don't know. But I believe this story has legs. I'm a licensed therapist myself, though of the psychological kind. In my twenty-plus years in practice, I have never seen a woman who I believed was lying about sexual abuse. Now, this isn't saying that females don't lie. Teenager Tawana Brawley was aided and abetted by Al Sharpton in her hoax about gang rape by white males. A stripper apparently lied about being raped by students at Duke. And my middle-class clients don't resemble Tawana. There are also some oddities in the woman's police report. For one, she showed a definite lack of sophistication and brain power. When she wants to have a bathroom break, she announces, "I have to pee." She curses at times, and also disses her coworkers in the massage trade. But unrefined women can be sexually attacked. Women who've been around the block a few times are perfect prey. They have more dirty laundry to be exposed should they tell. People are asking why this masseuse followed through with the police report three years later, in 2009. It's hard to know her motivations. But the story she recounts is compelling. She's no stranger to male violence. She implies as much during the questioning. This exposure, I think, has given her street smarts. She gets an uncomfortable vibe from Gore right from the start, who she claims was drunk. But she ignores her intuition because he's a famous public figure. She even admits to voting for him. When he starts fondling her, she tries various ways to distract him. She is trying her best not to get raped. She uses reason, bringing up his marriage to Tipper. His enraged response would be typical for a narcissist who wouldn't want his pristine image tarnished. Another feather in her cap: She told someone right away. She apparently called a friend in the middle of the night to disclose what happened. She reportedly saw an attorney, a therapist, and even contacted the police (though she didn't follow through). People will lambaste this woman for not following through in 2006 with her complaint. If she were attacked, why didn't she go public and protect other potential victims? The truth is that most women (and men) do not report sexual violence. Predators, especially rich and powerful ones, can get away with almost anything. We've seen this with Bill Clinton's vulturous behavior, as well as former Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer's addiction to prostitutes. John Edwards' liaison produced a blue-eyed baby girl. The sexual hijinks aren't limited to Democrats. When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for Governor of California, he was called the Gropenator because so many women accused him of groping them. The motivation behind these Men Acting Badly is power more than sex. They have gargantuan egos, with toadies serving their every need, and a shoddy moral code. They loot and pillage because they can get away with it. And there's Al Gore himself, a puffed up version of his former self. As the Green Messiah, his head has swelled as markedly as his girth. Gore dismisses any notion that the numbers around global warming have been cooked. When he recently testified before Congress, his contempt for mere mortals was evident. There's something rotten in the Democratic Party. It's been decaying for years, but now it positively reeks. Democratic leaders are punch-drunk with power. Unrestrained, unchecked, and unbalanced, they are manhandling our laws, our bodies, and our very lives. Would anything surprise us these days? We have a president who may or may not have Communist and Muslim ties. We know less about him than the dentist we visit twice a year for checkups. Given that that we're living in a particularly creepy episode of "The Twilight Zone," would Al Gore as a crazed sex poodle really be that far-fetched? A frequent American Thinker contributor, Robin is a licensed psychotherapist and a recovering liberal in Berkeley. You can email her at robinofberkeley@hotmail.com. .

To: Sully- who wrote (34704)	7/1/2010 4:12:13 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Portland police re-open Al Gore sex case By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 06/30/10 11:00 PM EDT The Portland Police Bureau has decided to take another look at the accusation by a local massage therapist that former vice president Al Gore sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in October 2006. On Wednesday evening the department issued a terse statement saying the once-closed investigation is now open again: <<< The Portland Police Bureau has made the decision to re-open the case regarding the allegations brought forward against Mr. Al Gore. Consistent with our policy regarding open investigations, the Police Bureau will not be commenting on any additional specifics regarding this case at this time. >>> The accuser, a woman named Molly Hagerty, says Gore assaulted her during a late-night massage at the trendy Hotel Lucia on October 24, 2006. According to police, Hagerty declined to tell her story to investigators in the weeks after the alleged attack. It was only in January of 2009 that she gave a statement to police. That statement, 73 pages long, is filled with details about Gore’s behavior on the evening in question. In 2007, Gore’s lawyers dismissed Hagerty’s claim as “completely false” — a denial the lawyers based on the “integrity” of Gore’s long marriage. (Gore recently announced that he and his wife Tipper have separated after 40 years together.) Police closed the investigation for lack of evidence, but investigators apparently did not talk to Gore, nor did they talk to witnesses Hagerty spoke to on the night of the alleged attack, nor did they investigate a pair of pants that Hagerty said were stained that evening, possibly as a result of the encounter. Now, however, after the National Enquirer published information from the police report as well as an interview with Hagerty herself, the investigation is apparently on again. A Gore spokeswoman says the former vice president welcomes the investigation. “Further investigation into this matter will only benefit Mr. Gore,” spokeswoman Kalee Kreider told the Portland Oregonian newspaper. “The Gores cannot comment on every defamatory, misleading, and inaccurate story generated by tabloids. Mr. Gore unequivocally and emphatically denied this accusation when he first learned of its existence three years ago. He stands by that denial.” Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

To: Sully- who wrote (34704)	7/1/2010 4:35:04 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Al Gore and How Liberals Act By Mark Noonan on sex scandal From Byron York’s article on the Gore sex scandal: <<< …Finally she got away. Later, she talked to friends, liberals like herself, who advised against telling police. One asked her “to just suck it up; otherwise, the world’s going to be destroyed from global warming.”… >>> For liberals, advancing the agenda is all that matters – and if part of the price to be paid is that a person must be sexually violated by a liberal leader, then its ok. A bit of a grope is to be set against the possibility that Gore will save us all from global warming… The thing to draw out of this is that everything is political with them. The only time it ceases to be so is when one of them comes to his or her senses and ceases to be a liberal. Take nothing they say at face value unless it is confirmed elsewhere by impeccable sources – you’ll never know when they are trying to snow you in the name of the Cause. .

To: Sully- who wrote (34704)	7/1/2010 7:28:25 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Friend Corroborates Masseuse's Story About Gore By: Daniel Foster The Corner The newest issue of The National Enquirer (I know, I know) has an interview with Molly Hagerty, the Oregon masseuse who accused Al Gore of sexually assaulting her during a 2006 session inside a Portland hotel. Also interviewed is Hagerty's friend, Greg Boatman, who she told about the incident soon after it happened. Says Boatman: <<< "She called me on the phone on Oct. 23, 2006. I remember the date because that's my birthday. She was excited about the massage she had scheduled for that evening -- she said it was with former Vice President Al Gore. "I was shocked when she called back and woke me around 4 a.m. that same night. When I picked up, she was in tears. She told me she was assaulted...Mr. Gore groped her and threw her down on the bed. "I was shocked and believed her right away. Molly's never lied to me -- she's one of the most honest people I've ever met." >>> Now this sounds like classic hearsay, and it is. But the Enquirer also quotes a criminal defense attorney who calls such "outcry witnesses" potentially important. "In sexual assault cases, outcry witnesses are important and often provide some of the most significant evidence. <<< "If there is a witness who says that later that day or the next day, the accuser told me about a sexual assault, that is excellent evidence. Even though it's hearsay, it can be used in court to rebut an inference that the accuser made up the story well afterward." >>> But police never interviewed Boatman, nor did they contact the Portland hotel for possible surveillance footage. .

To: Sully- who wrote (34704)	7/10/2010 8:26:12 AM
From: Sully-	1 Recommendation Respond to of 35834

With Gore facing sex accusation, long-lost memories emerge By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 07/08/10 8:55 AM EDT In a semi-reassessment of the character of former vice president Al Gore, the liberal journalist Melinda Henneberger, editor of Politics Daily, casually drops an anecdote we haven’t heard before: <<< For years, he was belittled for being so annoyingly right all the time; Gail Sheehy once criticized him for having no discernable body fat. “He tries too hard to be perfect,” she wrote in “Flawless, But Never Quite Loved,” a 2000 opinion piece in The New York Times. “Perfection is a serious flaw for a modern politician. Mr. Gore has suffered from it all his life.” Maureen Dowd pegged him as a “goody-goody … locked into the Good Son Role,” “the Tin Man: immobile, rusting, decent,” and “so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct he’s practically lactating.” But that was always a caricature; Gore was also sarcastic, droll, and fully capable of playing hard ball. A journalistic colleague I had no reason to doubt told anyone who would listen that Vice President Al Gore had tried to stick his tongue down her throat out of nowhere at a New Year’s Eve party in the mid-90s, when all she’d been expecting was a friendly peck. >>> Gore’s behavior, as described by Henneberger, seems neither sarcastic, nor droll, nor hardball. (Doesn’t “playing hardball” apply to things like salary negotiations and political dealmaking — not forcing yourself on a woman at a party?) Rather, it suggests, at best, a boorishness in Gore that some in the media knew about but never got around to mentioning until now, as police investigate a massage therapist’s claim that Gore sexually assaulted her in a Portland hotel room in 2006. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com