Ms. Lewinsky's affidavit was not filed in the Jones case until January 16, and the OIC had petitioned the Attorney General the day before for an expansion of the authority based on the evidence (the Tripp tapes and the OIC's tape) that he had acquired without any authority to do so...
Finally, if the committee compares the charges and the main points of evidence from the 450-page referral with the news stories that appeared between January and August, it will confirm that not one charge, not one allegation and not one piece of evidence from the Tripp tapes to the stained blue dress was not leaked to the press.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
After the beating Tripp has taken in the press, Starr's grand-jury chamber must seem downright inviting.
But in addition to the testimony from Tripp's bridge club friends, Montanarelli said a Radio Shack manager and sales clerk both told the grand jury that they warned Tripp about Maryland's wiretapping law when they sold her the tape recording equipment.
Since coming forward with the tapes, Tripp has faced the public spotlight herself.
Sources in the Jones camp have told TIME they always suspected that Starr gave Tripp the go-ahead to brief them, because they believe she was too unnerved by Starr's interrogation to take such a step on her own.
The public's perception of Ms Tripp as the scandal's most sinister character stems from the fact that she has been suspiciously close to many breaking White House scandals.
The article reported that Tripp had been arrested in 1969, at the age of 19, for grand larceny and later pled guilty to loitering.
Ed Pozzuoli is the President of the law firm Tripp Scott in Ft.
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"They create jobs at the White House, you know, six days a week, " Tripp quoted the friend as saying.
But here's a neat plot twist: Lewinsky says she lied to Tripp about the affidavit, pretending not to sign it because she hoped to keep Tripp on her side.
Lewinsky was so upset about being treated badly by the president that she tracked down Tripp and bombarded her with phone calls while Tripp was trying to deal with the death of family members.
The source tells CNN that Tripp tried on more than one occasion to break off the friendship.
Though Hyde had been extremely reluctant to release the actual tapes--they are said to be devastating to Tripp--the chairman acquiesced, allowing edited versions to go out.
On the 16, Ms. Tripp invited Ms. Lewinsky to have lunch with her in the Pentagon City mall, and there she was greeted by a corps of FBI agents and independent counsel lawyers and talking to a hotel room where she spent the next several hours.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
At Wednesday's hearing, Tripp attorneys Joseph Murtha and David Irwin managed to get the women to concede that their testimony about what Tripp said may have been influenced by news media accounts of the Starr investigation and the impeachment proceedings before Congress.
"At a minimum, it's a shot across the bow, " Tripp's lawyer, Anthony Zaccagnini, told TIME.
The hearing will determine if the state evidence against Tripp has been tainted by any connection with immunized sources.
Indeed the only person to whom Ms. Lewinsky said anything inconsistent with her denial was the ubiquitous Ms. Tripp.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
Ms Tripp was the last person to see Vince Foster, the former White House counsel who committed suicide in 1993.
Turn on late-night television or read a political cartoon and it is clear that Linda Tripp is the most hated woman in America.
Under Maryland law, prosecutors not only have to prove that Tripp taped the phone calls but also that she knew such taping was illegal.
But Starr's decision to bring Tripp to the stand before Lewinsky signals a standoff, at least for now, in the negotiations between the Starr and Lewinsky camps.
That is because Linda Tripp, the shadowy confidant of the former White House intern who surreptitiously taped more than 20 hours of private phone conversations is public enemy No 1.
It seems quaint that on the day Monica was handed over by Tripp to Starr's deputies, she could turn to her mother with the expectation that whatever she said, Mom wouldn't tell.
As you heard yesterday, the Jones lawyers had been briefed the night before by Linda Tripp.
Tripp worked in the counsel's office and was among the last people to see Foster alive.
It was not until later, when she had returned to the United States, that Tripp became embroiled in presidential controversy.
This means state prosecutors can use the tapes as evidence against Tripp.
We handled the information from Ms. Tripp in this same manner.
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