OMED: Below, you will see excerpts from a piece in Insight Magazine., and some comment of ours.  Click on the headline above to read the full original text.

This is the family the urban half of America wanted to install in the White House.  Now we can understand why Al Gore as Vice President made a quiet deal with the Russians to allow the sale of state-of-the-art military weapons, including super-silent submarines and some dangerous new torpedos, to some nasty national players in the Middle East -- thus threatening America's  petroleum supply. 

The Clinton-Gore administration, after overseeing policy that made us dramatically more dependant on oil from that region, then turned over a California federal emergency petroleum reserve to Occidental -- an Armand Hammer corporation in which the Gore family has a half a million dollars in stock.  A Middle East war that involved Iraq and Iran, or just another OPEC squeeze on the world oil supply would be very good for that stock, now.  Read on.  After a few minutes  you will understand why Al Gore lost Tennessee.  Folks there probably finally got tired of baking soda politics.

The long-secret case file concerning Al Gore Sr. links the late senator and father of the former vice  president to communist operatives and shows his disdain for the FBI.

        Former vice president Albert Gore Jr.'s expected political comeback
  may be rougher than he imagines. He's fresh from a European
  sabbatical, but not only will he be battling a popular incumbent
  president, he faces the wrath of many senior Democrats who
  blame him for losing the White House. Now come ghosts from his
  senator father's communist-linked past, buried deep within the elder
  Gore's long-secret FBI file. 
         Insight has obtained the raw FBI file of the late Albert Arnold
  Gore Sr. under the Freedom of Information Act. Gore's FBI case file,
  Nos. 94-37110 and 161-12825, contains 265 pages. Another 56
  pages have been withheld for supposed national-security reasons and
  personnel rules. It took two years for the FBI to release the file,
  which Insight requested before the 2000 presidential campaign. 

 OMED: Since the FBI is under the control of the Department of Justice, and since at the time Insight Magazine asked for the files, the head of the Department of Justice was Attorney General of the United States, Janet Reno, it is not surprising to hear that the truth did not come out until after the election. We cannot say if Janet Reno was the stupidest or the most corrupt Attorney General in American history.  All we can say is that she was the worst in our long lifetimes. 

          Hoover regarded the senior Gore with such contempt, the file
  shows, that in 1954 he was placed on the "not to contact" list after
  Gore blasted FBI pursuit of Soviet espionage cases. Indeed the file
  raises serious questions about Gore's own ties, especially his
  relationship with the wealthy Soviet agent Armand Hammer, from
  whom Gore Sr. received large sums of money (see "Gore Family
  Ties," May 22, 2000). It also contains new revelations linking Gore
  Sr. to Harry Dexter White, the deputy treasury secretary in the
  Roosevelt administration who repeatedly was identified under oath as
  a Soviet agent. White died of a heart attack in 1948, two days before
  he was to appear before a congressional committee to answer spy
  charges by former Communist couriers Whittaker Chambers and
  Elizabeth Bentley. 

  OMED: Those who can damage senior Democrats with their testimony often die this way.  A former Clinton associate "passed away" in jail in a similar manner. Heart problems are often the result of stress, so it must be very stressful to work for some Democrats.

         Russian defector Igor Gouzenko since has fingered White as a
  spy, as did the Venona intercepts of Soviet dispatches that linked him
  to the code names Richard, Reed and Lawyer. These confirm that in
  1945 White was providing a Soviet KGB officer with sensitive
  economic information. One of the intercepts established that the KGB
  even offered to pay the college tuition of White's daughter when he
  complained that he might have to return to the private sector to pay
  her education bills. Coupled with the earlier sworn testimony, these
  revelations prompted former senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  (D-N.Y.) to declare without hesitation that White was a Soviet agent.

  OMED: Moynihan until his retirement was highly regarded by the mainstream media, which forgave him for agreeing with Hoover in this case.

         Missing from the Gore file is anything about his well-documented
  financial and political ties to his benefactor Hammer. In Hammer's
  massive 658-page FBI file, No. 61-280, dating back to 1921 and
  now available at www.fbi.gov, Gore shows up as a close friend of the
  longtime Communist agent.
         In the heavily redacted Gore file, Hammer appears only as
  having been given as a character reference for Gore when the former
  Tennessee senator sought a White House appointment from Jimmy
  Carter five years after Hoover's death. Hammer then was Gore's
  employer. 

 OMED: It's just a matter of personal taste, but I wouldn't choose to use a "longtime Communist agent" as a reference for a U.S. government job.

         Whatever else was in the Gore file is not known. He was vetted for the job but didn't get it  after the security file reached the White House. 

 OMED: If Jimmy Carter had something to do with Gore not getting that job, it casts a shadow on his otherwise perfect record of never doing a single thing correctly while in office.

         Perhaps also redacted from the Gore file are the facts that
  Hoover launched three unsuccessful espionage investigations against
  Gore employer Hammer — who claimed to have the Tennessee
  senator in his back pocket — along with a series of money-laundering
  probes and campaign-contribution violations. 

  OMED: Looks like Hoover was just harrassing Gore's friend Hammer, doesn't it?  Mean, nasty right-wing Hoover.  Bad person.  Evil person.   Read the next three paragraphs and learn the absolute, undeniable truth about the Gore family friend.

     Hammer's FBI file shows that Hoover was not fooled. "Are we
  keeping a line on Hammer? I know he was no good in 1919 when
  [Ludwig] Martens was here," Hoover wrote to agents in 1951.
  Martens was one of Vladimir Lenin's top agents in the United States
  along with Hammer's father, Julius, who owned Allied Drug and
  Chemical, a provider of skin creams and herbal medicines. The
  business was used to launder sales proceeds of smuggled Soviet
  diamonds to finance the founding of the American Communist        Party. 
         Martens was expelled and the senior Hammer was sent to Sing
  Sing Prison for committing a botched abortion that his
  medical-student son may have performed. Armand Hammer
  thereupon liquidated his father's holdings, turned them into emergency goods and took these to Moscow, where he went to work for the  founder of the KGB. 
         It wasn't until long after Armand Hammer died, in 1990, that
  Edward Jay Epstein's book Dossier: The Secret History of Armand
  Hammer unveiled evidence from KGB files that Hammer was a
  Soviet agent. The Kremlin papers show he was a lifelong agent of
  influence for the U.S.S.R. and a close confidant of every Soviet
  leader from Lenin to Mikhail Gorbachev. 

  OMED: The Tennessee farm the Gores call home was either a bargain-priced buy or an outright gift from Armand Hammer.

         The Gore file contains little of the Hammer link, although it does
  mention that Hammer gave Gore his break by getting him involved in
  the cattle-breeding business in 1950. This was a reputed hustle where
  funds were laundered to Gore by cattle sales for which the animals
  never were delivered. That "business" helped finance Gore's
  residence in the plush Washington Fairfax Hotel. It and other such
  ventures sent future presidential candidate Al Gore Jr. to the elite St.
  Albans private school and to Harvard University. 
         The Gore file also strangely excludes mention of the fact that,
  when Gore retired, Hammer made him president of a
  coal-exploitation venture that provided the Gores with more than
  $500,000 a year. Was it a payoff? The answer might be found in the
  56 pages the FBI refused to release.