When politics and justice collide: Clinton case echoes Gore probe

[DonViejo]

Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — The Democratic presidential candidate’s interview with federal investigators was hours-long.

The questions, including tense exchanges about missing emails from a high-profile government archive, spanned years when the then-candidate was one of the most senior officials in government.

If the political drama sounds familiar, it should.

Hillary Clinton’s current struggles with an email scandal, the aftermath of a Justice Department investigation and serious questions about fundraising activities closely track the fraught political landscape then-vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore confronted in 2000.

Sixteen years ago, then-attorney general Janet Reno rejected for a third time a recommendation to appoint a special counsel to investigate Gore's campaign fundraising activities in 1996.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/28/clinton-emails-justice-department-gore-reno/89351954/

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1. A Poppy ploy, MSM provided the YAWN and We agreed to Go Along .