Backing Al Gore into a corner ... with kid gloves | OregonLive.com

In an 8-page report to Schrunk, senior deputy DA Don Rees argues that "a sustainable criminal case does not exist." And he quickly makes clear that he reached that conclusion by putting Hagerty -- but not Gore -- through the wringer.
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Wait a minute.

Hagerty is dinged for failing a polygraph ... and Al Gore and his attorneys get, through a "pre-arranged agreement," 14 questions that they have all the time in the world to prepare for?

I've heard of good cop bad cop. I just don't get why Hagerty was isolated with the bad cop in this case and Gore was coddled by the fraternal of benevolent police officers.

"Although presenting questions in advance is not the best procedure from our standpoint," Rees notes in classic-understatement mode, "when a person does not have to submit to a law enforcement interview it may be an appropriate practice in order to gain an interview."

Especially if Portland police and the district attorney's office apparently decided, long before that quick dash (at taxpayer expense) to San Francisco, that they had no interest in backing Gore into a corner, nailing him to the wall or making him the least bit uncomfortable.

Al Gore "cleared" of assault allegations made by masseuse | World news | The Guardian

Official says masseuse and her attorneys were uncooperative, and witnesses could not remember anything unusual