"Mr. Bacon once worked at the Wall Street Journal with Jane Mayer, who asked to be identified by her married name, Hamilton."
The leaking of Tripp's file by the Pentagon's Bacon to the New Yorker's Mayer/Hamilton is a slam dunk violation of the Privacy Act, and Bacon and Mayer/Hamilton should be sharing a prison cell somewhere. There they can review their "sources and methods".
In the recent past, Mayer/Hamilton has been involved in gratuitous smears of Judge Starr and of Bush White House legal counsel staff. Regarding the latter, Mayer/Hamilton's publisher was forced to publish a retraction, an apology, and make material changes to Mayer/Hamilton's publication...
Kudoes to you for bringing the facts of the past to the present for all of us to remember!