Washington Times-EDITORIAL • June 28, 2000
Like a stonewall
Attorney General Janet Reno's resolute stonewalling shows no
sign of crumbling. Miss Reno, in rambling testimony during a
Senate subcommittee hearing yesterday, gave no indication that
she would favorably respond to another recommendation that a
special counsel be appointed to investigate the abuses.
Last Thursday Sen. Arlen Specter, whose Judiciary
subcommittee has been conducting an invaluable investigation of
the Justice Department probe of campaign-finance abuses, publicly
revealed that yet another task force chief has recommended to
Miss Reno that a special counsel be appointed to investigate Vice
President Al Gore for perjury and other crimes. Mr. Gore's staff
responded the next day by releasing the 123-page transcript of a
four-hour interview that task force chief Robert J. Conrad Jr.
and two FBI agents conducted with Mr. Gore on April 18. Despite
numerous previous interviews, it was the first time Miss Reno's
task force actually queried the vice president about the Buddhist
temple fund-raiser more than four years ago.
Ostensibly released to show that Mr. Gore had nothing to
fear from the answers he had given, the transcript in fact
reveals that the vice president was full of contempt. It's worth
recalling that Mr. Gore previously had the audacity to tell the
FBI that too much iced tea had forced him to leave one meeting to
go to the men's room the very moment discussion took place of an
illegal fund-raising strategy. Thus, Mr. Gore was later able to
plead ignorance and to deny he had lied in his earlier
depositions. In fact, four witnesses have testified that the vice
president was present when the strategy was discussed.
During the latest interview, Mr. Gore contemptuously denied
that the 103 White House "coffees" held in 1995 and 1996 with
major campaign donors were "fund-raising tools" used to raise
millions of dollars in soft money for the Democratic Party. Asked
directly if the coffees were "a fund-raising tool," Mr. Gore
again replied, "I don't know. They were on his side of the
house." That would be President Clinton. Mr. Gore also claimed he
had briefly attended only one coffee. In fact, he hosted at least
23 coffees and attended eight others hosted by President Clinton.
Altogether, as Sen. Arlen Specter noted at the subcommittee
hearing yesterday, those attending the coffees contributed $26
million to the Democratic National Committee, including nearly $8
million within one month of attending a coffee. Consider a
briefing memo written for Mr. Gore before he attended a
fund-raising strategy session in the White House Map Room in
February 1996. One of the talking points prepared by the vice
president's chief of staff encouraged him to tell the president
and other participants: "[W]e can raise the money — BUT ONLY IF —
the president and I actually do the events, the calls, the
coffees, etc." In other words, the coffees really were de facto,
premeditated fund-raisers, and Mr. Gore played an integral role.
Regarding the Buddhist temple event in April 1996, the vice
president would have Mr. Conrad believe that he was the only
party functionary in attendance at the temple luncheon who did
not know that well over $50,000 had been raised. But the deceit
was so obvious that even Mr. Gore could not keep his story
straight during the interview. At one point he inadvertently
acknowledged that the temple event was in fact "a fund-raiser,"
requiring his attorney, James Neal, to correct him. "[Y]ou said
previously you didn't, you still don't know whether it was a
fund-raiser," Mr. Neal reminded the vice president. "Well, that's
right," Mr. Gore replied. "Let me, let me amend that."
Regrettably, Miss Reno gave no indication yesterday that she will
amend what even the New York Times has described as "her brazen
dereliction of duty as attorney general."
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