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To: jlallen who wrote (11721)	6/13/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

For one, she got a nice book deal out of it. But your right, blackmail is not the correct word. To my knowledge she never tried to blackmail Clinton. What she did do, however, was tape phone conversations with Lewinsky, without her knowledge, 20 some tapes worth as a matter of fact. The woman has a habit of being in the midst of scandals, too often to be coincidental if you ask me. From my understanding of the events and the woman, she appears to be a busybody attention seeker. Considering that Lewinsky never mentioned Clinton by name in any of the tapes, it seems she had an agenda in going to Starr. In any case, she was preparing her book faster than the press could print Clinton scandal stories.

To: jlallen who wrote (11721)	6/13/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Here's a rundown of the timeline, note that Tripp approached her book agent before she started taping conversations, as a matter of fact, it was her agent that told her to. Far from seeking the truth, she was pursuing a book deal. <<Because of her association with Foster's death, she was an obvious witness for Starr and his investigators. Associates said Tripp felt comfortable talking to Starr at the time, which made it easier to approach him later with her tape recordings of Lewinsky. Foster's death inspired several people to consider book projects about it, notably a friend of Tripp and a sworn enemy of Clinton, New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg. "At that point, there were no books from the inside," Goldberg said. "And the Vince Foster thing was certainly bizarre." Conservative publisher Alfred Regnery confirmed that he considered the project, but added "it didn't go anywhere." Tripp was seen by some in the White House as disloyal and eventually she was transferred to the Pentagon, where she received a salary increase and several positive job performance reviews. It was at the Pentagon where Tripp first met another White House refugee, Lewinsky. They talked frequently in person and by phone and also communicated by e-mail, the records of which also have been subpoenaed by Starr. Though Tripp's tapes of Lewinsky prompted the storm against the president, it was her account of the Willey incident in Newsweek magazine last August that she has said motivated her to make the recordings. After Newsweek quoted Tripp as confirming that Willey had met with the president, Clinton's lawyer, Robert Bennett, said Tripp was not "to be believed." A month after Bennett's comments appeared in Newsweek, according to Goldberg, Tripp picked up her phone in the Pentagon and called the New York agent. As recounted by Goldberg, Tripp said, "I have something now that is absolutely explosive." They made a date to talk about it later, but it was a couple of weeks before Goldberg heard from Tripp again, she said. "She called me, the 18th or 19th of September. I said, 'Start at the beginning.' Then she just said, 'There is a girl that I work with that is having an affair with 'The Man."' Goldberg, who had worked as a covert political operative for President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972, told Tripp to tape her conversations with Lewinsky.>>