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...message was couched in the cold, metallic language of the law: "You are commanded to appear and testify" before Kenneth Starr's grand jury on Tuesday, June 30, at 9:15 a.m. Not exactly a Hallmark hug, but to its recipient, Linda Tripp, the subpoena was a welcome invitation--one she in effect had been preparing for since August 1997, when she began secretly tape-recording her long, strange telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky...
Through five grueling months of scandal, Tripp has been cast in at least three unflattering, even cartoonish roles. First, she was the Betrayer, who secretly taped the phone conversations of a love-struck friend. Next, according to a New Yorker reporter who dug into her background, she was the Vengeful Woman, an insecure gossip who had become embittered about the opposite sex because of a philandering father and her own failed marriage. Then, according to an account by media watchdog Steven Brill, she was the Set-Up Artist, a conniver who teamed up with literary agent Lucianne Goldberg to expose...
...Starr will be less concerned with Linda Tripp's testimony Tuesday than with how Monica Lewinsky's attorneys respond to it. After all, Tripp has spent more than 100 hours with Starr's team preparing her testimony, and her grand jury appearance is calculated to put the squeeze on his most reluctant witness -- Lewinsky...
...rare media interview published in the Washington Post, Tripp said that her appearance provides an opportunity to fight back against the vilification she claims to have suffered over her taped conversations with Lewinsky. But the White House spin machine appears ready to roll, with White House aide Sydney Blumenthal in the New York Times recounting some of the questions he faced from Starr's prosecutors in an effort to paint the investigation as a coy probe of the President's libido. But beyond getting his witnesses to elaborate on the definitions of what constitutes a sexual act, Starr's eyes...
...Starr will turn up the heat on Monica Lewinsky Tuesday when he puts Linda Tripp on the stand. With negotiations deadlocked between Lewinsky's attorneys and Starr's investigation over what the intern would be prepared to concede in her testimony, getting Tripp's testimony on record is a way of boxing in Lewinsky, says TIME Correspondent Eric Pooley. Lewinsky's lawyers have reportedly repeated the offer that she would testify to an affair but not to a cover-up, but that hasn't been enough to persuade Starr to offer immunity. Putting Tripp in the stand - even...