LINDA TRIPP

[BOSSHOG]

Please, everyone contact your congressional reps and have them question the Justice Department about the settling of Tripp's Privacy Violation lawsuit. The settling is typical right wing chicanery and not justified. Let us overturn this ruling which is costing taxpayers $600,000 which is nothing more than payback for a right wing team player. Thanks for listening.

[liberalhistorian]

1. Don't you just love it that one of the

things she claimed was that her "privacy was invaded", she suffered a "loss of privacy" which then caused her to lose reputation in the community, etc., etc., yadayadayada.

God, the NERVE of that woman, the ABSOLUTE GALL of her claiming "loss of privacy" and that kind of garbabe when she DID THE SAME FUCKING THING TO MONICA LEWINSKY!!!! If she was so worried about "privacy", and didn't want her own privacy invaded, why in the holy fuck did she do that to Monica and invade HER privacy in such a public, humiliating manner?

GODDAMN repukes, their hypocrisy is so blatant it's SICKENING! And why doesn't the media see this? Why don't they ever pick up on repuke hypocrisy?

[spooky3]

3. now, now, I'm sure the ONLY reason that Linda took it was

that she feels bad about what she did to Monica, and is planning to send the money to her.

[JHB]

2. More on this stiry from Conason

Tripp was 19 years old when she was arrested for grand larceny in the alleged theft of money and a watch from two men at a motel in upstate New York. Whether she was "drinking alcohol" or not, that had nothing to do with the charges against her (which were later reduced in a plea bargain to "loitering"). More important, perhaps, no Pentagon official leaked the story of Tripp's arrest to New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, who was the first to report it in March 1998. In the course of preparing a profile of Tripp, Mayer learned about the arrest from Tripp's stepmother.
...
At the time, Tripp's arrest was germane not so much because of anything it revealed about her youthful character but because it proved she had lied on her application for a top Pentagon security clearance. That Defense Department form required the applicant to disclose any prior arrest -- and indeed, the form itself warns that failure to disclose such information in pursuit of a security clearance may constitute a felony offense. When Tripp omitted the information about her 1969 arrest from the DOD form and then signed it, she violated those provisions (an offense for which she has never been punished).

The Pentagon couldn't have revealed Tripp's arrest record to Mayer for a very simple reason: Nobody there knew about it. What the Pentagon officials told Mayer was that they had no record of Tripp's arrest. This was the "invasion of privacy" underlying her subsequent lawsuit and the barrage of right-wing propaganda that pilloried Mayer and the Pentagon.

So Tripp is being paid almost $600,000 because Pentagon spokesmen told the New Yorker that the Defense Department knew of no arrests in her background.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/11/04/privacy/index.html

[kentuck]

4. The person that taps other people's phones and rats their most...

personal comments to them sues for invasion of privacy and wins! The world is upside down.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Bosshog

Please edit your subject line omitting the excessive capitalization or I will have to relock.

Thanks,
MrsGrumpy
DU Moderator

[opihimoimoi]

6. destiny will find ways to contend with Linda. Prolly end up with

leptospirosis

[kskiska]

7. I've read where now she's thinking of

trying to get back into a government job. If you sue your employer, can you really expect to be re-employed? Who, in their right mind, would want to work next to Linda Tripp?