Blow Job for a Job...
October 23, 1997
Tripp was a resident of Columbia, Maryland, at the time she made her surreptitious recordings of the conversations with Lewinsky, and 49 Democrats in the Maryland Legislature signed a letter to the state prosecutor demanding that Tripp be prosecuted under Maryland's wiretap law.[7] Before the trial, the state court ruled that, due to the immunity agreements which the Independent Counsel's office entered into with Tripp, Lewinsky, and others, a substantial amount of the evidence which the prosecution intended to use was inadmissible. At a pre-trial hearing the prosecution called Lewinsky as a witness to try to establish that her testimony against Tripp was untainted by the Independent Counsel investigation. However, the Maryland state court ruled that Lewinsky, who "admitted that she lied under oath in a federal proceeding and has stated that lying has been a part of her life", was not credible and Lewinsky's proposed testimony against Tripp was "bathed in impermissible taint". As a result, all charges against Tripp were dismissed on May 26, 2000, when the prosecution decided not to proceed with the trial of the case.
On March 14, 1998, it was revealed that Linda Tripp was arrested when she was 19 years old in Greenwood Lake, New York, in 1969 on charges of stealing $263 in cash as well as a wristwatch worth about $600. The charges were eventually dismissed before coming to trial.[8] Although never convicted in 1969, years later Tripp answered "no" to the question "Have you ever been either charged or arrested for a crime?" on the Department of Defense security clearance form.
Shortly before Tripp was scheduled to appear before the grand jury in the Lewinsky investigation, in March 1998, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Kenneth Bacon, and his deputy, Clifford Bernath, leaked to reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, Tripp's answer to the arrest question on her security clearance form. Following the Bacon--Bernath leak to Mayer, the Department of Defense leaked to the news media other confidential information from Tripp's personnel and security files. The Department of Defense Inspector General investigated the leak of Tripp's security clearance form information and found that Bacon and Bernath violated the Privacy Act, and the DoD IG concluded that Bacon and Bernath should have known that the release of information from Tripp's security file was improper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Tripp
 The Lewinsky Tapes
© Newsweek The week before Christmas Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp had been subpoenaed to be deposed in the Paula Jones lawsuit. They suspected they would be asked whether Lewinsky had had a sexual relationship with the president. Lewinsky called Tripp late one evening and again the next morning. Tripp taped the conversations. Excerpts of those recordings, heard by Newsweek, follow: Tripp asks Lewinsky for permission to tell her lawyer about the dilemma.
Tripp: He may, but it's not going to hurt us more than we are already hurt. Lewinsky: But it's one more person who will know... Lewinsky: Look, maybe we should just tell the creep. Maybe we should just say, "Don't ever talk to me again, I f---ed you over [by telling others about the relationship]. Now you have this information, do whatever you want with it." Tripp: Well, if you want to do that, that's what I would do. But I don't know that you're comfortable with that. I think he should know. Lewinsky: He won't settle [the Jones case]. He's in denial. Tripp: I think if he f---ing knew, he would settle. Lewinsky: I don't think so because he knows what it will end up just being is me against you. I don't want to paint you as a bad person. Tripp: Look, Monica, we already know you're going to lie under oath. We also know that I want out of this big time... If I have to testify, it's going to be the opposite of what you say... Lewinsky: Well, it doesn't have to be a conflict. Tripp: What do you mean? How? Tell me how? [What am I] supposed to say if they say, "Has Monica Lewinsky ever said to you that she is in love with the president or is having a physical relationship with the president?" If I say no, that is f---ing perjury. That's the bottom line. I will do everything I can not to be in that position. That's what I'm trying to do... I think you really believe that this is very easy, and I should just say f--k it. They can't prove it. Lewinsky: I believe you, but obviously I don't have the same feelings about the situation... Tripp: What do you mean? Lewinsky: Because if I had the same feelings that it was so wrong to deny something then I would not be doing it. You see what I mean? Tripp: I think down deep you don't like having to lie. Lewinsky: ...I don't think anybody likes to... I would lie on the stand for my family. That is how I was raised. Tripp: You're going to die here. I would do almost anything for my kids, but I don't think I would lie on the stand for them... Lewinsky: I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life... Tripp: This is so amazingly huge to me... I know it's huge to you... I'm being a sh---y friend and that's the last thing I want to do because I won't lie. How do you think that makes me feel? I can make you stop crying and... I feel like I'm sticking a knife in your back and I know at the end of this, if I have to go forward, you will never speak to me again and I will lose a dear friend... Lewinsky: Look, I will deny it so he will not get screwed in the case, but I'm going to get screwed personally. Tripp: ...This is sick, this is sick... The women discuss a plan for Tripp to have a "foot accident" and end up in the hospital when she is to be deposed. Tripp: Look, I can't lie under oath so I have to think of a way that I don't have to... I only wish you'd tell the big one [that I know]. Then I'd know he knew... Lewinsky: I can't. If I do that, I'm just going to f---ing kill myself... Tripp: He hasn't asked you if you told anyone? Lewinsky: ...He asked me something and I said no... The other one, the one I saw today [apparently Jordan], asked me... "You didn't tell anybody, did you?" Tripp: And what did you say? Lewinsky: No. Tripp: Oh, Jesus Christ. And you think anything you tell him would definitely get back to the other one? Lewinsky: Of course it would. The women return to the subject of whether Clinton would settle with Jones if he knew Lewinsky had told Tripp of the alleged relationship. Lewinsky: No, he wouldn't. I promise you that's not enough information. He's in denial about it. Tripp: He knows you're going to lie. You've told him, haven't you? Lewinsky: No. Tripp: I thought that night when he called you established that much. Lewinsky: Well, I mean, [I] don't know. Tripp: Jesus. Well, does he think you're going to tell the truth? Lewinsky: No... Oh, Jesus. Tripp: So he's at least feeling somewhat safe that this is not going to go any further right now, right? Lewinsky: Yeah... Lewinsky's call waiting beeps in, and when she checks she finds it's her mother. After Lewinsky talks to Mrs. Marcia Lewis, she speaks again to Tripp. Lewinsky: [My mother] understands why you think it's necessary to tell the truth. She said [the plan to avoid the deposition by having an accident is] brilliant. The women return to a discussion of whether there is any hard evidence that could hurt them. Lewinsky: Whatever they have, if they have anything, has to be inadmissible. Nobody saw him give me any of those things and nobody saw anything happen between us. Tripp: Are you positive that nobody saw you in the study? Lewinsky: I'm absolutely positive. Tripp: How about Betty [Currie]?... Tripp: What if they are able to subpoena records? Lewinsky: What records? Tripp: Phone records. Lewinsky: Phone calls to me? Honestly... I'd say I was afraid to say he [called me] because we're friends, and I know what this case is about... I'm sure he calls on some sort of special phone.... You know he got caught once [by using a regular phone] so... Lewinsky sighs and again expresses her wish that Clinton would settle the Jones case. She concludes it will never happen. Tripp: You don't know that yet. Lewinsky: Yeah, I do, from the way – what Vernon said. Tripp: Was he definite? Lewinsky: Oh, you could hear it in his voice. It's like done. Tripp: But again, I go back to [the fact that] he [Clinton] doesn't know everything... Lewinsky: Even if you didn't know [about the sexual relationship], I'd still be doing this because it's not their [the lawyers in the Jones case] business. It's not their business... Tripp: If they have anything, it's that you were given federal employment. Lewinsky: I already had it [a federal job] when it [the sexual relationship] started... Tripp: I can't be involved in this. I can't be a party to all this ugliness that will do nothing except destroy people... Lewinsky: I will have lost the two closest people to me... Tripp: Maybe Vernon's right and it's a huge fishing net because of the rumor [that Lewinsky was having sex with Clinton]... Maybe it's just us flipping out. The women discuss letters, photos and gifts that Lewinsky says she gave to and got from Clinton, and they debate how to respond to the portion of Lewinsky's subpoena that asks for all such evidence. Lewinsky implies that she wrote several notes to the president that would be incriminating. Lewinsky recalls a thank you note she wrote to the president after her family was allowed to watch him tape the radio address. Lewinsky: I sent a note to Nancy [Hernreich, an assistant to the president], a note to Betty [Currie], and a note to the creep... 'Dear Schmucko, thank you... As my little nephew said, 'It was great to meet the principal of the United States.' Lewinsky refers to an official White House photograph she has and worries that the inscription on it is so personal that lawyers will use it against her. She says she tried to call Betty Currie to ask for a clean copy of the picture so that she might give that one to the lawyers. But she says Currie is unavailable. Tripp: My fear is that they have information that we don't know that they have... and they can nail us... Lewinsky: If I needed to, I would say... this did not happen [the sexual relationship]... God forbid... somebody had a video camera of him and me, Iwould still say I never told you anything... First of all, for your sake, but also for my own sake.
October 29, 1997
On January 19, 2001, the last full day of the Clinton Administration, Linda Tripp was fired from her job in the Pentagon. Tripp claimed that the firing was vindictive, but the Clinton administration countered that all political appointees like Tripp are normally asked to submit their resignation upon a new administration taking over, and those who refuse are fired. Tripp sued the Department of Defense and the Justice Department for releasing information from her security file and employment file to the news media in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. On November 3, 2003, Tripp reached a settlement with the federal government.[11] The settlement included a one-time payment of more than $595,000, a retroactive promotion, and retroactive pay at the highest salary for 1998, 1999, and 2000. She also received a pension and was cleared to work for the federal government again. Her rights to remain part of a class action lawsuit against the government were also preserved. Since the Lewinsky scandal, Tripp moved to Northern Virginia, married German architect Dieter Rausch in 2004 and opened a year-round Christmas shop with her husband called the Christmas Sleigh in Middleburg, Virginia. In a December 1, 2003, appearance with Larry King on Larry King Live, Tripp told of her suffering breast cancer. On the subject of her successful invasion of privacy lawsuit against the federal government, Tripp claimed that she actually came out behind financially, due to attorneys' fees and the derailment of her government career. She also claimed that the Clinton administration's violations of her privacy were not equivalent to her violations of Monica Lewinsky's privacy as the Clinton administration's leaking of her employment history was illegal, not addressing the fact that she herself was alleged to have violated the Maryland wiretap laws. Furthermore, Lewinsky had asked her to lie under oath in the Paula Jones lawsuit against Bill Clinton, something she had refused to do. She told King that she only began taping her conversations with Lewinsky, whom she had known for 18 months, a mere eight weeks before she was scheduled to be deposed in the Jones lawsuit. Tripp had earlier said she taped the conversations to prevent the Clinton administration from retaliating against her, since she had decided not to lie under oath. Her would-be publisher, Lucianne Goldberg, however, said in a 1997 interview published in the New York Times that she had advised Tripp to record her conversations with Lewinsky in order to obtain factual proof for a book deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Tripp  
The Podesta Emails; Part One
Today WikiLeaks begins its series on deals involving Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Mr Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until 2001. Mr Podesta also controls the Podesta Group, a major lobbying firm and is the Chair of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington DC-based think tank. Part 1 of the Podesta Emails comprises 2,060 emails and 170 attachments and focuses on Mr Podesta's communications relating to nuclear energy, and media handling over donations to the Clinton Foundation from mining and nuclear interests; 1,244 of the emails reference nuclear energy. The full collection includes emails to and from Hillary Clinton. In April 2015 the New York Times published a story about a company called "Uranium One" which was sold to Russian government-controlled interests, giving Russia effective control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for the production of nuclear weapons, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of US government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off the deal was the State Department, then headed by Secretary Clinton. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) comprises, among others, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy. As Russian interests gradually took control of Uranium One millions of dollars were donated to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013 from individuals directly connected to the deal including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer. Although Mrs Clinton had an agreement with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors to the Clinton Foundation, the contributions from the Chairman of Uranium One were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons. When the New York Times article was published the Clinton campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, strongly rejected the possibility that then-Secretary Clinton exerted any influence in the US goverment's review of the sale of Uranium One, describing this possibility as "baseless". Mr Fallon promptly sent a memo to the New York Times with a rebuttal of the story (Podesta Email ID 1489). In this memo, Mr Fallon argued: "Apart from the fact that the State Department was one of just nine agencies involved in CFIUS, it is also true that within the State Department, the CFIUS approval process historically does not trigger the personal involvement of the Secretary of State. The State Department’s principal representative to CFIUS was the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs. During the time period in question, that position was held by Jose Fernandez. As you are aware, Mr Fernandez has personally attested that “Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter.” What the Clinton campaign spokesman failed to disclose, however, was the fact that a few days before sending his rebuttal to the New York Times, Jose Fernandez wrote on the evening of the 17 April 2015 to John Podesta following a phone call from Mr Podesta (Email ID 2053): "John, It was good to talk to you this afternoon, and I appreciate your taking the time to call. As I mentioned, I would like to do all I can to support Secretary Clinton, and would welcome your advice and help in steering me to the right persons in the campaign". Five days after this email (22 April 2015), Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon wrote a memo to the New York Times, declaring that "Jose Fernandez has personally attested that 'Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter',” but Fallon failed to mention that Fernandez was hardly a neutral witness in this case, considering that he had agreed with John Podesta to play a role in the Clinton campaign. The emails show that the contacts between John Podesta and Jose Fernandez go back to the time of internal Clinton campaign concern about the then-forthcoming book and movie "Clinton Cash" by Peter Schweizer on the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation. In an email dated 29 March 2015 (Email ID 2059), Jose Fernandez writes to Podesta: "Hi John, I trust you are getting a brief rest after a job well done. Thanks no doubt to your recommendation I have joined the CAP [Center for American Progress] board of trustees, which I'm finding extremely rewarding."
Julian Assange
November 3, 1997
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known as the Lewinsky scandal. Monica Samille Lewinsky was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in an affluent family in Southern California in the Westside Brentwood area of Los Angeles and in Beverly Hills. Her father is Bernard Lewinsky, an oncologist, who is the son of German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and emigrated to El Salvador and later the United States. Her mother, born Marcia Kaye Vilensky, the daughter of a Lithuanian Jewish father and a Russian-Romanian Jewish mother; is an author who uses the name Marcia Lewis. Monica's parents' acrimonious separation and divorce during 1987 and 1988 had a significant effect on her.[3][9] (Her father later married his wife, Barbara;[5] her mother later married R. Peter Straus, a media executive and former director of the Voice of America under President Jimmy Carter.[10]) The family attended Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and Monica attended Sinai Akiba Academy, its religious school.[5] For her primary education she attended the John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air.[11] She then attended Beverly Hills High School, but for her senior year transferred to, and graduated from, Bel Air Prep (later known as Pacific Hills School) in 1991.[3][4] Following high school graduation, she attended Santa Monica College, a two-year community college, and worked for the drama department at Beverly Hills High School and at a tie shop.[3][9] In 1993, she enrolled at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, graduating with a psychology degree in 1995.[3][4][9] With the assistance of a family connection, Lewinsky got a job at the White House as an unpaid summer intern in the office of White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta. Lewinsky moved to Washington, D.C. and took up the position in July 1995.[3][9] She moved to a paid position in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in December 1995. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_l... |
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