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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (211935)	12/20/2001 6:46:46 PM
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Linda Tripp's Fears By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid October 16, 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Wall Street Journal recently ran a scathing editorial about a violent attack by a group identified as "Teamsters for Clinton" on peaceful anti-Clinton demonstrators in Philadelphia. The editorial suggested a parallel between this Teamster assault and the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett by Henry II's retainers after the king had asked, "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" "Now of course, Bill Clinton did not order the Teamsters to rough up anti-Clinton demonstrators," the Journal said. "Like Henry's knights, they figured this out for themselves, after hearing about the 'vast right-wing conspiracy' and all that." The Teamsters are not the only ones who understand that the President expects his wishes to be translated into action. On July 28, Linda Tripp told a federal grand jury that she decided to give the Monica Lewinsky story to Newsweek to ensure she was protected when she had to testify in the Paula Jones case. She said that Monica Lewinsky and her friend Lucianne Goldberg had warned her that the White House would destroy her if she testified truthfully. A juror asked her, "You actually felt that telling the truth would result in your life being threatened?" Ms. Tripp replied, "Not only did I feel it, I was told it." The source, she said, was "Monica, who also feared for her life." She added, "I think that there are...places on the tapes where she admits that she's fearful of her life, that her mother was fearful of Monica's safety and physical well being. And also says on the tapes that she feels that I am in jeopardy as well." Ms. Tripp explained that she feared losing her job and that she "wondered whether it was possible that physical harm could come to me and my children." A juror asked for some examples of what she had experienced that would make her feel in danger. Ms. Tripp, who had been White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum's secretary, responded, "I had reason to believe that the Vince Foster tragedy was not depicted accurately under oath by members of the administration." Broadening that to include Mrs. Clinton and Travelgate, she added, "I knew based on personal knowledge, personal observations that they were lying under oath. So it became very fearful to me that I had information even back then that was dangerous." Asked for examples of physical violence that caused her to be fearful, she said that "the behavior in the West Wing with senior staff to the President during the time the Jerry Parks (murder) came over the fax frightened me." She explained that Parks had headed the Clinton campaign security arrangements in Arkansas in 1992. She said that when the news of his murder reached the White House, it resulted in a flurry of activity and phone calls, all cloaked in secrecy, that "was somewhat alarming." She said this reaction caused her concern, as did Vince Foster's death two months earlier. She explained, "None of the behavior following Vince Foster's suicide computed to just people mourning Mr. Foster. It was far more ominous than that, and it was extremely questionable behavior on the parts of those who were immediately involved in the aftermath of his death." She said the reaction to Parks' death "replicated in my mind some of the behavior following the death of Vince Foster," precipitating "back and forth meetings behind closed doors." She said, "One of our staff assistants asked what is going on, and it was never addressed." To an ordinary government worker, she observed, "It was behavior that was considered questionable, cause for concern." Why would the death of a Little Rock private eye be of more than passing interest to White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum and his staff? Why the hush-hush meetings with senior aides of the Chief of Staff? This flurry of activity lends credence to the claim of Jerry Parks' widow that her husband had done detective work for Vince Foster, compiling a dossier on Clinton. She said when he learned of Foster's death he exclaimed, "I am a dead man." He was very worried, she said, because just before his death, Foster told him he was going to give Hillary a file prepared by Parks. Linda Tripp's account of the White House reaction to the news of Jerry Parks' murder casts new light on the deaths of both men. Copies of the Parks file on Clinton may have been in the two mystery manila envelopes that Foster's secretary had seen in the Counsel's office safe. One was addressed to Foster's friend and Associate White House Counsel, William Kennedy, and the other to Attorney General Janet Reno. Neither one reached the addressee. Those envelopes were probably the object of the searches made of Foster's office on the night of his death. Compiling the dossier may have cost Parks his life. Possessing it may have cost Foster his. aim.org