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...people knew where the bottom really was--knew if, when or what kind of drugs Bush had ever used. There were some senior-staff discussions about getting out the truth, whatever that was, but no one inside the Iron Triangle of strategist Rove, spokeswoman Hughes and campaign manager Joe Allbaugh agreed with that strategy. Bush had made it clear that he wasn't going to go down the road of admitting anything. "We're not going to do it," Rove told a Washington Republican. "Everyone's going to have to live with that...
...only a handful of top campaign aides, and an immediate check of the logs kept by a media adviser showed no tape was missing. The Bush team was dumbfounded. The FBI began fingerprinting the material. It has also interviewed Bush campaign chairman Don Evans and campaign manager Joe Allbaugh and will speak to others who had access to the tapes. The idea that Gore might have a sense of what they're planning was troubling enough for the Bush camp. Even worse was the thought that there might be a mole in their midst...
...Bush camp as a likely suspect in the case of who mailed a sensitive Bush debate preparation videotape and documents to the Gore campaign. Reacting furiously to an Associated Press story that moved very early Saturday morning, Bush communications director Karen Hughes told reporters that campaign manager Joe Allbaugh has called FBI director Louis Freeh to complain that "it is completely inappropriate and wrong for the Justice Department to play politics by leaking information in the midst of a presidential campaign...
...Hughes said that FBI agents based in Austin had assured Allbaugh that they had come to no conclusions about the identity of the guilty party. She suggested that someone in the political ranks of the Justice Department put out an erroneous story fingering the Bush camp in order to deflect suspicion from Gore loyalists who may somehow have purloined the tape and documents. "The only people interested in helping Al Gore prepare for a debate are people who support Al Gore, not people who support Governor Bush," she said...
With word out, McCain and his staff tried to reiterate their earlier position. "John's position has not changed. He doesn't want to be asked," says McCain political aide John Weaver, who made a special call to Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh on Friday to make that point. But that won't stop the speculation. Cheney's office called to get McCain's weekend telephone numbers, as they did with several other contenders. Saturday, McCain and Bush are attending the funeral of Georgia senator Paul Coverdell in Atlanta. Despite the solemnity of the event, very little of what...