Portland police admit alleged Gore grope case closed by mistake

The Portland Police Bureau has just released a statement “in an ongoing effort to be fully transparent and responsive to media inquiries regarding the investigation concerning Al Gore.” In the statement, chief Michael Reese says police never contacted Gore, nor did they contact the District Attorney’s office when accuser Molly Hagerty told her story to detectives in January 2009. Instead, the police closed the case without investigation. Now, Reese admits that was a mistake. “There should have been command level review at the time on the specifics of this case and decisions on whether the investigation should go forward.”

Police did contact the District Attorney’s office in late 2006 and early 2007, when Hagerty’s lawyer first got in touch with investigators. But at that time, Hagerty refused to tell her story, so there was little authorities could do. Then, when Hagerty told her story — in great detail — police did nothing. Only now, after the National Enquirer reported the story, have they re-opened the case.

Masseuse who wants $1 million for more on Gore is leaving way too much money on the table

The Portland masseuse who has accused Al Gore of groping her in 2006 is offering to tell more for $1 million. In my judgment, she's leaving too much money on the table.

The problem is that she apparently sees this as a two-party transaction. One party is Al Gore, who stands to endure more embarrassment than he already has. The other is the masseuse, who stands to pocket $1 million in exchange for her story.

In fact, however, there are other deep-pocketed parties that stand to lose, or gain, much more depending on whether this story has legs or soon recedes into the noisy background of American life.

There is General Electric, which has invested heavily in green technology and propaganda in the belief that the future would be green. That assumption already is in question, given the exposure of the fraudulent science that has powered global warming theory.

Now, Gore, perhaps the best-known public face of the global warming movement, appears to be on the cusp of prolonged embarrassment. At some point, even self-sacrificial Democrats will start jumping off this sinking ship.

General Electric and a lot of other rent-seeking coporate enlistees in the green movement have a lot to lose. They might be willing to make a bid to short-circuit the current embarrassing Gore story.

So, too, might Gore.

In these circumstances, soiled slacks that may contain Gore's DNA ought to be worth more than $1 million.

Page Six says masseuse will put Gore grope on Page One for $1m

Sources tell Page Six the so-far unidentified Oregon woman is ready to publicly reveal herself and heap more embarrassment on the former vice president in return for a seven-figure media deal. And she intends to use the pants she wore on the night of the alleged incident -- supposedly stained with Gore's DNA and stored in a bank safety-deposit box -- as evidence against Gore, who recently split with wife Tipper.

A source told us, "She's ready to come forward and sell the story with even more salacious details. But she wants $1 million. Her attorney is shopping for a deal, and while there are many media outlets interested, there are negotiations going on because the price tag is way too high."

The woman filed a police statement accusing Gore of sexual "abuse" after a massage at Portland's Hotel Lucia in October 2006. The statement described how during the session, he allegedly "began to demand that I go lower . . . It appeared that he was demanding sexual favors or sexual behaviors." She claimed he "angrily complained that I was not doing what he wanted."

She alleged, "He grabbed my right hand hard, shoved it down under the sheet to his pubic-hair area . . . and said to me, 'There!' in a very sharp, loud, angry-sounding tone."

She added, "He had a dramatic display of violent temper as well as an extremely dictatorial commanding attitude besides his Mr. Smiley Global Warming concern persona. I did not want to get hurt, and I did not want to get raped."

Portland police say the investigation was dropped because "there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations" and the woman declined to seek prosecution.

Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider, who declined to comment after The Enquirer broke the story earlier this week, did not get back to us last night.