Word: trippe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr is moving forward without her. Last week he finally brought Lewinsky's Pentagon confidant, Linda Tripp, before the grand jury to begin to tell what she knows from a year of girl talk with her trusting protege. Prosecutors spent 14 hours questioning Tripp and never even got around to delving into the 20 hours of telephone conversations that Tripp secretly tape-recorded. That could be because Starr wants to establish carefully her credibility as a witness; it may also be because the tapes are less than conclusive on the question of obstruction. Late last week Tripp appeared likely...
...night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers. It was a lot more fun than hanging around Washington not answering questions about Monica Lewinsky. As White House spokesman Michael McCurry put it, referring to last week's grand jury headliner, Linda Tripp: "The President has been concentrating on one trip, and it's China, not Linda...
WASHINGTON: Linda Tripp certainly looks as if she's under siege. According to CNN, Monica Lewinsky may well cooperate with Maryland state prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, who's after Tripp for secretly taping her young ex-confidant. Montanarelli also thinks another set of tapes -- of conversations between Tripp and New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg -- may be just the thing to make his case. Good luck: TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf says that Special Prosecutor Ken Starr's interest in Tripp will probably trump any state investigation...
...more than likely the grand jury in Maryland will not get hold of any tapes because Starr's is a federal investigation," Weisskopf says. And Montanarelli's chances for reeling in Tripp herself aren't much better. "Tripp received immunity when she agreed to cooperate with Starr. That immunity would likely be relevant to state as well as federal investigations." Tripp capped her fourth day of testimony by declaring that "despite the events which have recently unfolded in Maryland, I continue to focus on my testimony before the federal grand jury." For once, the facts would seem to support...
...Calling Tripp to testify now is an indication of where Starr's probe stands. Earlier this month, when Lewinsky dumped the loquacious California medical-malpractice lawyer William Ginsburg and hired a pair of Washington sharpies, Plato Cacheris and Jake Stein, many observers assumed it meant she was getting ready to cooperate. If Lewinsky were to testify, Tripp would then be relegated to a mere corroborating witness, appearing only after Monica had spilled to the grand jury. But Starr's decision to bring Tripp to the stand before Lewinsky signals a standoff, at least for now, in the negotiations between...