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"The Portland Police Bureau has just released a statement &amp;ldquo;in an ongoing effort to be fully transparent and responsive to media inquiries regarding the investigation concerning Al Gore.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; In the statement, chief Michael Reese says police never contacted Gore, nor did they contact the District Attorney&amp;rsquo;s office when accuser Molly Hagerty told her story to detectives in January 2009.&amp;nbsp; Instead, the police closed the case without investigation.&amp;nbsp; Now, Reese admits that was a mistake.&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;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.&amp;rdquo;\nPolice did contact the District Attorney&amp;rsquo;s office in late 2006 and early 2007, when Hagerty&amp;rsquo;s lawyer first got in touch with investigators.&amp;nbsp; But at that time, Hagerty refused to tell her story, so there was little authorities could do.&amp;nbsp; Then, when Hagerty told her story &amp;mdash; in great detail &amp;mdash; police did nothing.&amp;nbsp; Only now, after the National Enquirer reported the story, have they re-opened the case. Here is Reese&amp;rsquo;s entire statement:"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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