-Caveat Lector- http://newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/10/3/105016 Debate Moderator Sitting on Gore Time Bomb When PBS's Jim Lehrer moderates Tuesday night's debate between presidential candidates Al Gore and George Bush, he'll be armed with devastating information developed by his own network that could throw the Gore campaign into chaos. The question is, will the left-leaning Lehrer ask Gore about what he knows, or protect the Tennessee Democrat from the single-most damaging revelation yet to emerge from his presidential bid? On Monday night, Lehrer's PBS aired the premiere episode of "Frontline: The Choice 2000," a multi-part in-depth look at the backgrounds of both candidates. The pre-debate broadcast focused on Gore and included a dramatic interview with his once "best friend" John Warnecke. For the first time on national TV, Warnecke went public with charges that Gore was a heavy drug user during the years they worked together at Nashville's Tennessean newspaper in the 1970s. More problematic still, Warnecke told "Frontline" how Gore personally pressured him to go along with a cover-up of their marijuana-filled years, which included lying to reporters. Gore leaned on his old buddy during a series of phone calls in 1987, as the up-and-coming politician was mounting his first bid for the White House. First Warnecke got a call from Gore's chief of staff, Peter Knight. "Peter had - I had known Peter from organizing fund-raising affairs for Al," Warnecke told "Frontline." "Peter said that the marijuana issue was coming up and the press was on it, asking questions about Al's marijuana use. And they wanted me to basically deny that Al smoked with me. ... They wanted me to - to basically lie to the press when they called ..." A little later, presidential candidate Gore himself was on the line, trying to force his old friend to hide the truth: "I told him I wouldn't hurt him," Warnecke told "Frontline." "He would come back again and not believe - it was as if he wouldn't believe me. ... He pushed me hard. And I kept telling him I wouldn't hurt him. I couldn't hurt him ..." The exchange still didn't satisfy Gore, who called back an hour later to keep the heat on. "He was asking me again to put forth this line that this was a private issue, not privy to the press to know anything about," Warnecke told "Frontline." "And I kept - I repeated again to him that I was not going to hurt him. 'My God, you're my best friend. I'm not going to hurt you. I can't hurt you, Al. It's not in my conscience to hurt you.'" When reporters called, Warnecke did his best to honor his promise not to hurt Gore and still not completely lie. Rather than acknowledge the hundreds of times he says he and Gore got high together, Warneke told reporters at his former paper, the Tennessean, and at the New York Times that he'd only seen Gore smoke dope once. The account was close enough to the Gore campaign's modified limited hangout cover-story - that Gore's dope-smoking was "infrequent and rare" and had ceased shortly after he got back from Vietnam - to satisfy the press. Warnecke says that it hurt so much to lie to reporters, he broke down in tears under questioning by the New York Times. Presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer knows all about Gore's marijuana cover-up, having no doubt viewed his own network's Warnecke interview several times before it aired Monday night. Would Lehrer ignore the issue if a witness had recently told PBS he was pressured to lie about sharing drugs with George Bush? That's highly doubtful. Reporters have avidly pursued rumors that Bush once used cocaine - personally challenging the candidate numerous times - even without a witness like Warnecke speaking on the record. Whether Jim Lehrer ignores his own network's scoop about Gore's marijuana cover-up during Tuesday night's debate will be a true test of his journalistic integrity. For a full transcript of the "Frontline" interview with John Warnecke, go to www.pbs.org. 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