Al Gore: NSA Surveillance Violates The Constitution Updated

[Major Hogwash]

31. This happened in 1996.

Gore gave the money back.
He had to.

Everyone took it for granted that Gore would again be on the Democratic ticket in 1996. The Clinton-Gore team won 49 percent of the vote to 41 percent for Republican Bob Dole and 8 percent for Ross Perot.

As the automatic front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2000, Gore had developed a reputation as a remarkable fund raiser, until embarrassing questions surfaced. It was revealed that Gore's appearance at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles had generated campaign donations, despite a federal law that prohibited fund raising at tax-exempt institutions.
Gore insisted that he had been unaware of the fund raising, which caused columnist Mary McGrory to wonder how the "best-briefed man in Washington" could have gone so uninformed.

Damaging charges appeared the following March in a front-page exposé by the Washington Post's investigative reporter Bob Woodward, who revealed that White House staff had dubbed Gore the "solicitor-in-chief." Woodward documented fifty-two calls that Gore had made on White House phones to raise nearly $800,000 in contributions. Gore‘s attorneys assured him that no court had ever ruled such actions illegal. At a press conference, the vice president
said that "no controlling legal authority" had barred him from doing it, but his repetition of that phrase seven times made it appear that he was hiding behind the legal jargon. No formal charges were brought but the incident shook his straight-arrow public image.

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http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Gore,_Albert.pdf

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