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...Vice President Al Gore and I, as his chief of staff, had back in 1993. But you offered no basis whatsoever for any such linkage and no support for the central assertion that these incidents presented "compelling connections between foreign cash and official favors in Washington." The powerful but baseless accusation in your story is that I met with John Huang and others, and that Vice President Gore then met with a large group of Asian Americans because they made political donations. This is not accurate. There is simply no basis for the conclusions that you drew. JACK QUINN Washington...
...White House, which was shaken as much by the fact that the story had leaked as it was over the prospect of another Israeli spy, refused all comment. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denounced the report as "totally baseless." Added Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Israel's ambassador in Washington: "Certainly after the Pollard affair, we would have been crazy...
...paranoia has increased in direct proportion to the Internet's popularity over the past few years. Usually the fears are baseless and serve only to slow down mail servers across the land. But events last week showed that roads to the Information Superhighway can actually be treacherous, and even the mighty Microsoft Corp. can be slowed down by pot-holes...
...overcome it. This camp of thought says that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by the Lord in Genesis 19 is caused by the towns' inhabitants being inhospitable rather than the men of Sodom asking to have sex with angels who appeared as men. This is an utterly baseless claim...
...Olympic-bombing investigation. "One of the things I would urge you to do, remembering what happened to Mr. Jewell in Atlanta, remembering what has happened to so many of the accusations that over the past four years have been made against me that turned out to be totally baseless...