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Linda Tripp to Lead IIAG December 1, 2003 -- Linda Tripp announced tonight on CNN Larry King Live that she will serve as the first Executive Director of the newly formed group Institute for Integrity and Accountability in Government (IIAG). The IIAG is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, charitable organization dedicated to promote and advocate for integrity, ethics and accountability in government. Ms. Tripp explained her decision to become involved and lead the IIAG as follows: "When I came forward I was ill-prepared. There wasn't effective help or guidance readily available. Many of those who tried to help had competing or...

<p>She helped blow the lid off the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal -- now Linda Tripp joins Larry in her first interview since her breast cancer and her Pentagon settlement. Tune in at 9 p.m. ET for the revealing interview.</p>

Linda Tripp to collect bonanza from Pentagon: $595,000 payoff for Clinton tapes By Patrick Martin 5 November 2003 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author The former White House aide who played a critical role in the right-wing campaign to destabilize the Clinton administration, Linda Tripp, will collect a substantial payoff from the Bush administration, her lawyers announced November 3. Tripp will receive a one-time payment of $595,000 from the Department of Defense, as well as a retroactive pay increase for 1998, 1999 and 2000, in returning for dropping two lawsuits against the...

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...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will pay Linda Tripp, a central figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, $595,000 (354,000 pounds) as part of a settlement of lawsuits in which she accused U.S. officials of violating her privacy, court documents show. Tripp's secret tapes of conversations with Lewinsky fuelled the sex scandal that almost brought down former president Bill Clinton. Tripp transferred to a job at the Pentagon from the White House after news of her tape recordings became public. Tripp sued the Defense Department and the U.S. government for privacy violations, including a charge that officials leaked information that...

<p>Linda Tripp will get more than $595,000 from the Defense Department to settle a lawsuit over the release of confidential personal information about her to a magazine, her lawyers said Monday. Based on information supplied by Pentagon officials in 1998, The New Yorker reported Tripp did not admit an arrest on her security application for her job at the Defense Department. She had been arrested for grand larceny when she was a teenager.</p>

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Alleged Audio Tape of Rush and Drug Dealer Maid Could Not Be Used In Court. Maid Committed Felony Recording It! The woman who claims she recorded Rush Limbaugh asking her to procure drugs for him could be in some big legal trouble, and the recording she claims to have could not be used in court. Florida has very strict laws against the “interception of communications.” (see http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Index&Title_Request=XLVII#TitleXLVII) These laws are extensions of the older anti-wiretap statutes, but go much further than the old laws did. The expressly prohibit the interception or recording of any communication, oral, electronic, etc., without the...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon's inspector general has concluded that Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon and one of his deputies, Cliff Bernath, violated the federal Privacy Act by releasing information from Linda Tripp's security file to a magazine reporter.</p> <p>Pentagon investigators concluded Bacon and Bernath should have known the release was improper at the time it was made, but investigators also found that neither was influenced by anyone on the White House staff -- or anyone else -- to release the negative information about Tripp, who played a pivotal role in the Independent Counsel's investigation of President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky matter.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon's inspector general has concluded that Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon and one of his deputies, Cliff Bernath, violated the federal Privacy Act by releasing information from Linda Tripp's security file to a magazine reporter.</p> <p>Pentagon investigators concluded Bacon and Bernath should have known the release was improper at the time it was made, but investigators also found that neither was influenced by anyone on the White House staff -- or anyone else -- to release the negative information about Tripp, who played a pivotal role in the Independent Counsel's investigation of President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky matter.</p>

Saying that Hillary Clinton's book "can't be allowed to go unchallenged," Sexgate whistle-blower Linda Tripp returned to the spotlight on Wednesday to challenge the former first lady's claim that she didn't know President Clinton was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky until a DNA test proved the allegation. Tripp said that Mrs. Clinton undoubtedly knew about the illicit relationship much earlier because she had a top aide monitoring President Clinton's private activities. "With Evelyn Lieberman, as deputy chief of staff to the president, Hillary's henchman - there was no way that Hillary was not completely apprised of Monica Lewinsky,"...

There they are! The Persons Of The Year according to the esteemed editors of Time Magazine. Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins, whistleblowers to WorldCom, the FBI and Enron, America's new square-jawed superheroes. I couldn't help but wonder…when did Time suddenly appreciate the plight of whistleblowers? We can only speculate, but you could almost see the editors of Time breathlessly drooling. Each woman certainly had their 60s feminist credentials in order: Overdriven, maniacally obsessive breadwinners, complete with a little man in the kitchen nurturing those inconvenient children as she climbed the career ladder…then single handedly assaulted the system by...

Over a week has passed since Time's cover eulogized three whistle blowers as Persons of the Year. To date, there has been no press commentary to the effect that there are whistle blowers and then there are whistle blowers. Some whistle blowers, apparently, are to be destroyed because they revealed the truth. The magazine chose the three women this way: "For believing - really believing - that the truth is one thing that must not be moved off the books, and for stepping in to make sure that it wasn't, they have been chosen by Time as its Persons...

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, P.C.ATTORNEYS AT LAW 3233 P Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007-2756 (202) 342-6980 · FAX (202) 342-6984 For more information contact: (202) 342-6980FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Federal Judge Permits Linda Tripp to Prove Multiple Privacy Act Violations Committed By Defense DepartmentBush Administration Motion to Dismiss Denied Washington, D.C. , September 4, 2002 – In a 19-page written ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has rejected the Bush Administration’s attempt to dismiss a complaint filed by Mrs. Linda Tripp alleging that the Defense Department committed multiple violations of the Privacy Act over a 2-month period of time...

A United States District Court Judge in Washington D.C. today denied a motion for summary Judgment filed by the Defense Department, allowing Linda Tripp's Privacy Act violation suit against the Department to continue forward. Dates have been scheduled for further filings and for discovery plans to be submitted. A status hearing has been ordered for October 4, 2002, in Washington, D.C. Details regarding this civil lawsuit may be found on Linda Tripp's web site (http://www.lindatripp.com). An Adobe Acrobat copy of the court documents regarding this decision is found here.

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, P.C.ATTORNEYS AT LAW 3233 P Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007-2756 (202) 342-6980 · FAX (202) 342-6984 For more information contact:Stephen Kohn or David Colapinto: 202-342-6980 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LINDA TRIPP ALLOWED TO PURSUE PRIVACY ACT LAWSUIT ALLEGING JOB HUNT WAS SABOTAGED BY ILLEGAL LEAKS Washington, D.C. , April 16, 2002 – A federal court has ruled that Linda R. Tripp can pursue additional Privacy Act claims against the Department of Defense. In a written opinion issued on March 30, 2002, but just published yesterday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan denied motions filed by the Bush...