Defense Department settles with Linda Tripp

[peterh]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-11-03-tripp-lawsuit_x.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
Tripp, whose secret tapes of conversations with Monica Lewinsky helped lead to President Clinton's impeachment trial, sued the Defense Department two years ago, alleging violations of the Privacy Act. She had worked for the department as a public affairs specialist.

As part of the settlement, Tripp gets a one-time payment of $595,000, a retroactive promotion and retroactive pay at a higher salary level for 1998, 1999 and 2000.



Gee..one has to wonder how much fun it must be for her to come to work every day and how much fun it must be for her co-works also. I’d hate to be her immediate supervisor…gives me the heebe-jeebes thinking about it.

[eissa]

1. That bitch

The nerve of someone who secretly taped her "friend" and then released those tapes to further her own political agenda, to sue using the Privacy Act is perverse. I hate her :grr:

[shanti]

29. not to worry

karma is a bitch too;-)

[Bronco69]

2. I would love to see an interview

with some of her present co workers. I wonder if they feel about her the same way we do LOL

[CBHagman]

6. The word is that she didn't do much in her Pentagon job.

By the way, Ken Bacon, who was the Defense Department spokesman under Clinton, went off to work at Refugees International.

Linda Tripp, who was the all-purpose turncoat, went off to a career of bitching about her hard lot.

I guess we know what kind of "values" she represents...

[leetrisck]

3. I really don't believe this - Tripp

lied on her application and if I recall correctly, that is grounds for dismissal - maybe it's because she was a teenager and it wasn't supposed to show up anywhere. I just don't know. She was not prosecuted for breaking the law and she gets a windfall and a promotion. I'm in the wrong business.

[Rose Siding]

11. A "leak" from a repub DoD profits Tripp

I'm not at all suspicious :eyes:

And the payola is more than double what they propose for medical tort reform... LOVE repubs

[Grins]

36. Great point!

"...more than double what they propose for medical tort reform"

Beautiful catch!

[The Zanti Regent]

14. The MAGIC (R)™ at work again

If I lied on my job application, I would have been fired right on the spot.

But Linda has the protection from the MAGIC (R)™...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. This makes me physically ill.

1. Remembering her ORIGINAL face.
2. Knowing that my tax dollars are paying this mother of puppies.

[grasswire]

5. she doesn't work there any more, you know

The last news about her was that she was living in rural Virginia and was the proprietor of a Christmas shop. No kidding.

It's mind-boggling to think that she lied on her application for federal employment and isn't punished for that.

[grasswire]

7. from google cache

Linda Tripp to open Christmas shop in Middleburg
Associated Press
© November 22, 2002
Last updated 1:20 PM Nov. 22

MIDDLEBURG -- Linda Tripp is going into business with the Christmas Sleigh, a year-round holiday shop scheduled to open next month in Virginia horse country.
After her involvement in the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, Tripp moved to a cottage near Middleburg, about 40 miles west of Washington.

``It's pretty discreet -- that's why Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis moved here, because they left her alone,'' said Dee Dee Hubbard, president of the Middleburg Business Association. ``We've had bigger and more important celebrities. I've got Liz Taylor, Robert Duvall, Paul Mellon, John Kent Cooke. And then Linda Tripp? People here aren't star-struck.''


The link is dead, so I'm not posting it.

[kskiska]

26. She doesn't even own the Christmas Shop

Some German friends own it and Tripp works for them. She also had breast cancer.

[denverbill]

8. And to think - the whole Monica thing woulda never happened.

Linda lied to get her job. She meets Monica through her job. Clinton might have still gotten his BJ, but the world would never have known, there would have been no Paula Jones lawsuit, because trapping him in a lie was the whole point of the suit.

[Gin]

10. She is a low life slug...and I hope she has a rotten time at work..

I hope she has no friends and no peace...I wish her nothing but the worst life has to offer a slug...wait until the Democrats get back the white house...sayonara slug.

[gardenista]

12. OMG. I need to get my brain washed now!

Please, God, remove the image of Linda Tripp in a Repuke Christmas sweater from my brain!

That horrid , um, person! You know, I have known several similar individuals who have worked the system in institutional jobs, i.e., Govt, or large Corporations, even a *Church* (!) who have gotten big payoffs for going away quietly when *they've* been guilty of crimes or sexual harrassment or other massive misdeeds. If you don't have a conscience, you can get away with just about anything.

But just remember, she needs to look in the mirror every day.

BTW, I heard that she lets her dog poop on other people's yards, too! A repuke trait if I ever heard of one!

[undergroundrailroad]

9. Linda Tripp get $595,000 and Harriet Tubman get's $11,750 retroactive

for her service to the US Government.

Sorry, but I don't 'get' it?

By Associated Press
October 30, 2003, 3:20 PM EST
AUBURN, N.Y. -- The U.S. government is finally settling up with abolitionist Harriet Tubman for her service as a scout, nurse and spy during the Civil War.
An appropriations bill headed to President Bush includes $11,750 to preserve and maintain the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn -- an amount equal to the pension Tubman should have received from 1899 to 1913 if calculated in today's values

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=113&topic_id=3466

[Panda1]

13. Please tell me she won't actually "see" this money.

Can't we the people sue her? I detest her. :mad:

[leetrisck]

15. Oh, she'll get it - Linda Tripp & Gary Aldrich

were moles in the Clinton White House - have you seen anything really bad happen to either of them.

[MO_Dem]

21. The report I heard

said something like "Linda Tripp and her lawyers" get 600,000. I hope her lawyers are WELL paid--she deserves NOTHING!

[lancdem]

28. I remember when Paula Jones settled her lawsuit

for $750,000 or whatever it was, her lawyers got close to all of it.

[kyrasdad]

16. Can you believe this biotch?

She tapes her "friend" and gives her leading questions to answer, runs her fat ass over to Ken Starr as fast as she can waddle, THEN has the nerve to complain that her privacy was invaded? I'm not one for public floggings, but I think in this case I'll make the exception...

I hope her, Starr, Hyde, Barr, Gingrich, and the rest of that uhnoly cabal has a special place in hell, right next to the furnace.

[beanball]

17. Just another sleezy repug

yo Linda don't forget to send LuciAnn"the bat"Goldberg her agents fee.(two of the gop's top hags)

[liberalmuse]

18. That does it...

If there were any justice at all, that guy from '7even' would make her pork all that cash down until she exploded. This makes me SICK. These f&ckers took their piece of Clinton, and are rewarded for being despicable lying scumsuckers. Then again, if that's how you make a quick buck, no thanks. They can have it.

[Fovea]

19. I would do that at this point for a quick buck

if I got to do it to BushCo.

My older brother always told me never to start a fight.
He also followed that by telling me to make sure I ended them.
The NeoCons have taken the ultimate sucker punch at everything I love,
starting with the constitution and working their way down to the EPA and Amtrak.

I would love to find a Democrat with a Scaife sized war chest and
a penchant for seeing things melt down in public.
I would love to be the Segretti of my generation.

[corarose]

20. She got a FREE FACE out of the deal

Remember a plastic surgeon felt sorry for her because she was butt ugly and everyone was making fun on her. She got a free face out the ordeal also.

[blueseas]

22. Good grief

I hope her lawyers fees are at least $800,000

[Festivito]

23. Ironic, she sues for a release of confidential personal information.

It's too funny.

Wasn't worth that much money either.

I guess they had to pay her off after a long wait. Didn't she expose Bush Sr's lover...

[joshcryer]

32. Yeah, totally fucking ironic! Shit, I'm peeved.

Sorry for the explectives, but I'm totally pissed. It's so wrong.

[johnfunk]

24. If there were any justice, we would've seen the fat little Nazi like this:

And let's not forget this lovely pic... her MUG SHOT!



The federal government is no place for criminal Scaifewhores like Tripp.

[papau]

25. "as part of a settlement of lawsuits" -Bush chose to pay her as reward

"as part of a settlement of lawsuits" -Bush chose to pay her as reward


They can't even pay out their bribe and hush money without putting the touch on Uncle Sam.

And Bush has made a nice anti-Clinton headline out of Bush giving away US monies.

Funny how no one in the media spins it this way.

[diamond14]

34. bush* always pays his 'friends' with OUR money....the bush* criminals

would never have been able to steal the White House without 'friends' like tripp and Florida's kathleen harris (she got her reward - elected to her desired office via more ballot scrambling)....

it's time for WE THE PEOPLE to take OUR government back !!!

BOOT BUSH in 2004
http://www.democrats.org

[sungkathak]

27. An award for what she had done

Former FBI director Hoover held large quantity of black material of Presidents and Senators. With these material he blackmailed the politicians. That's why he could stay at that post as long as he wished.

In leuwinsky scandal, Linda Trip provided Starr's office with 20 hours secretly taped phone conversation in which Leuwinsky talked about her affairs with Clinton. She also instructed Leuwinsky kept the jacket which contaminated Clinton's sperm. Trip didn't get any advantage from it. From my point of view, it was obviously much more a purposed intelligent practice than the relationship of friends. An insistent eavesdropping and evidence searching. Mr. Hoover used to use this kind of material to extort.

[Isere]

30. Defense Department settles with Linda Tripp

Defense Department settles with Linda Tripp......

Good, now when do we get to settle with her?

[jsw_81]

31. Barf alert

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[BGAL1965]

33. The lesson is obvious

Betrayal really does have it`s rewards.

[spotbird]

35. Maybe she'll invest it all in the stock market.

Today.

[demgrrrll]

37. What really makes me mad is that the judges refused to give the Clinton's

reimbursement for their legal fees and they are giving this goonhead over half a mil. If anyone thinks that the BFEE doesn't have a hand in this I've got some swampland I'd like to sell ya. She represents
just about everything I abhor disloyalty, avarice, backstabbing,
I could go on but I think everyone is aware of who she is and what she did. There is balance in life though and I believe that karma although it can be a slow moving entity eventually catches up with people who do others grievous wrongs.

[spotbird]

38. She had to be paid for her good work.

She is the patron saint of sleeze, you wouldn't expect them to leave her high and dry.

[kskiska]

39. From Lucianne's Mouth: Linda won't see the money

from her website

Not So Fast: Thanks to all who emailed their delight at the outcome of Linda Tripp's civil suit for invasion of privacy. We have not seen nor spoken to Linda for five years but we are reliably informed that she won't see that money. It will all go to her lawyers. This kind of gives new poignancy to the recent TV footage from outside that LA courthouse. Shooting a lawyer is a very bad thing to do but one can understand what drove the shooter when he shouted, "You took my money."

[leesa]

40. Well she finally got her payola for particioating in the biggest charade

of any Presidency.