Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whitewater investigation ended up focused on the President's pants. Or to feel that, whatever turns out to be true about Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Starr's own methods are not always easy to stomach. Going after the President's sex life, wiring Linda Tripp to secretly tape Lewinsky, trying to persuade Lewinsky to tape Clinton--are those the actions of a conscientious prosecutor or a political...
Criticism of Starr's role in the Lewinsky affair begins with his entry into it. He got the authority from Attorney General Janet Reno and a three-judge panel to expand his jurisdiction, but not until days after he had wired Linda Tripp to tape Lewinsky. Starr's defenders say he was simply pursuing a credible lead that walked in the door. "There's a pretty decent argument it's related to what he's already doing," says John Barrett, who was an attorney in the Iran-contra probe of Lawrence Walsh. But to Starr's critics, the wiring...
...smoky-voiced New York City literary agent and Bea Arthur act-alike who represents, among others, one Mark Fuhrman, the infamous O.J. detective. Not only did Goldberg serve in her youth as an undercover agent for Nixon during the 1972 election, and not only did she suggest that Tripp tape-record Lewinsky, but she has also been a tipster for Star, which broke the Gennifer Flowers story. According to Phil Bunton, Star's editor in chief, Goldberg came to him last fall with a sketchy version of the sex-with-an-intern tale. Star couldn't crack the story...
...August she leaked the story of Kathleen Willey, claiming to have seen Willey emerge all aglow and clothes disheveled from a hands-on briefing with the President. When Clinton attorney Bob Bennett dismissed Tripp as "not to be believed," she stomped off to Radio Shack and bought herself a tape recorder...
Maybe they should get a tape recorder, like everyone in Washington...