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January is the month when the other shoe drops. The news that the Bush administration just got itself a special prosecutor -- a man described as "Eliot Ness with a Harvard law degree and a sense of humor" -- to investigate the Valerie Plame leak is just another cause for people in power to sing "O Crappy Day!" as the new year rolls around. Bad things happen to good people (and some bad people) in January. It was in January (only yesterday, it seems) that Linda Tripp crawled out of the woodwork to torment Bill Clinton....

WASHINGTON (AP) - Linda Tripp, her breast cancer arrested, said Monday she will marry her childhood sweetheart in the spring. The Pentagon employee who went public with Monica Lewinsky's secrets - and helped set in motion the scandal and impeachment trial over President Clinton's relationship with the White House intern - described her first reaction when diagnosed as ``sheer terror.'' Billed as her first interview since being diagnosed with breast cancer and settling her lawsuit against the Defense Department, Tripp said on CNN's ``Larry King Live'' that she had a lumpectomy and underwent chemotherapy. She said her hair fell out,...

Yesterday, attorneys for Linda Tripp announced that at long last the federal government decided to settle a lawsuit she filed against the Department of Defense and others for revealing secret information contained in her background investigation file. The government’s privacy invasion was one of the many wrongs committed against Linda after it learned she had tape-recorded conversations with Monica Lewinsky proving Bill Clinton was a notorious, reckless womanizer. Before Linda Tripp came along, Bill Clinton, his administration, the Democratic National Committee and all of their liberal friends in the mainstream media had managed to hide the fact that our commander-in-chief...

The U.S. government will fork over a half-million bucks to Linda Tripp of Monica Lewinsky scandal fame, as part of a settlement of lawsuits that chaged U.S. officials violated her privacy. According to court documents, Tripp sued the Defense Department and the U.S. government for leaking information that she was interviewing for a job at a lower rank and salary than her old job and for disclosing details from her security clearance. Tripp's secretly taped conversations with Lewinsky. Tripp will be paid 595,000 -- also receiving a retroactive increase in her pay grade which will be used to re-calculate her...

FoxNews - breaking...

Reporter's Privilege OK'd in Tripp Case By SAM HANANELASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - A reporter for the military's Stars and Stripes newspaper does not have to reveal the government sources who leaked information about Linda Tripp's application for a new job with the Defense Department, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said the writer, Sandra Jontz, can invoke the reporter's privilege to shield her from revealing confidential information in court, despite the fact that the newspaper is owned and controlled by the Defense Department. Tripp, whose secret tapes of conversations with Monica Lewinsky helped lead to...

A Conflict of Loyalties David C. Stolinsky, M.D. Tuesday, June 10, 2003 What do Linda Tripp, Elia Kazan and G. Gordon Liddy have in common? At first glance, one would say “nothing.” Tripp “betrayed” her friend Monica Lewinsky by taping their phone conversations. Kazan “named names” to a congressional committee investigating Communists in Hollywood. Liddy “hung tough” and refused to talk about his associates in the Watergate burglary and, as a result, served five years in federal prison. The tape-recording friend, the anti-Communist film director and the conservative talk show host seem an unlikely trio. But they have something important...

Special Reports Personal Collection: Norris Carden's (www.nuzman.com) e-mail collection of Drudge's Special Reports (5/31/1997 - 1/17/2001.) XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT BULLET 8/3/97 20:02 EDT TRIPP TURNS ON CLINTON, TELLS OF WILLEY EPISODE Former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum's executive assistant Linda Tripp has given an interview to NEWSWEEK [8/11/97] that promises to rock the Lincoln Bedroom. In 1993, recounts Tripp, Kathleen Willey told her that President Clinton made sexual advances toward her in the White House.

Freeper Dukeman long ago posted a thread which is very helpful in assessing Krusty's "victim" status:Hey midmich!- Here's Tripp Discussing Norma Asnes On Tape: Asnes Runs Letch Tests On King Billy When Hillary's Away!