Word: tripp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their will. Monica said, "Can they really make me wear a wire and invade other people's privacy like that?" She was frightened. They were threatening her mother with prosecution. But if they had all this collateral evidence, then they didn't need my client at all. Linda Tripp illegally taped 20 hours of conversation with Monica and then brought those tapes to Starr, a former judge. Rather than prosecute her, he said, Thanks, I'll use them. They should have gotten court approval, but Starr seems to think it's O.K. to break the law to enforce...
...dress made its first appearance in cyberspace. On Jan. 21, Matt Drudge reported on his Internet Drudge Report that Linda Tripp had told investigators Lewinsky allegedly confided she "kept a garment with Clinton's dried semen on it--a garment she allegedly said she would never wash." Drudge declines to characterize his sources. But he says his initial report was "very valid," and he stands by his account that the dress exists. "I know it to be a black cocktail dress," Drudge says...
...next day Drudge appeared on NBC's Today show. In his introduction Matt Lauer called the Drudge Report "a media gossip page known for below-the-Beltway reporting." Lauer asked Drudge about his story. Drudge said Tripp "has told this to investigators." Asked if he had confirmation, Drudge responded, "Not outside of what I've just heard, but I don't think anybody does at this point." The Today show had just given NBC News' imprimatur and a national platform to Drudge to report on the President. "I wouldn't call what he does reporting," objects University of Virginia professor...
While all of Washington, D.C., is absorbed, or so it seems, in esoteric questions about arcane legal concepts like "perjury" and "subornation of perjury"--whatever they mean--the political world is missing the real issue: If some of the seedier snippets leaked from the Tripp-Lewinsky tapes are to be believed, then lying in a deposition is but one of the President's offenses...
...doing no worse than ?protecting someone she loves? (presumably the President). Her mother, Marcia, facing a third day of grand jury testimony Thursday, was ?emotionally drained? by having to testify against her daughter, said her attorney. And no wonder. ?[Monica] told her everything about the sex,? according to Linda Tripp?s agent, Luciane Goldberg. Even the relationship between Ginsburg and Ken Starr is described in the langue d?amour: ?He never writes, he never calls,? joked Lewinsky?s attorney...