Campaign 2000: Tapegate

In the two weeks since a videotape and more than 100 pages of George W. Bush's debate-preparation material landed on the desk of one of Al Gore's closest advisers (who turned them over to the FBI), rumors and fabrications about who was behind the caper have whizzed between the campaigns and the press. The facts have been on holiday. Except at the FBI, where agents have been interviewing the handful of Bush aides who had access to the material. The one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That fact alone...

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