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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (528)	8/5/1998 12:25:00 AM
From: Jay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Re "Teach a man to fish, and he can eat for a lifetime" Precisely! Take care.

To: Catfish who wrote (528)	8/5/1998 5:24:00 AM
From: Shawn Donahue	Respond to of 13994

Darrell, Here is some very good insight into why Linda Tripp had to testify against Bill Clinton...reasons that liberals will never understand...wanting the truth to be known and justice served ! OYSTER BAY -- As part of its $90 million Filegate lawsuit against the Clinton administration, Judicial Watch has obtained the names of hundreds of heretofore unidentified White House employees whose FBI files were gathered by Clinton dirt digger Craig Livingstone. And though Clintonites had denied that their collection of files was an attempt to gather damaging information on political opponents, the new list of White House Filegate targets includes the name of Linda Tripp, the most damaging witness yet to testify against President Clinton. Though this startling development was reported last Monday by the Washington Times, most other news outlets have taken a pass. The press appears to consider the pulling of Tripp's FBI file as just the latest installment of the White House war against Sexgate witnesses. Yet the timing of this particular Clinton intelligence operation suggests it had nothing to do with Tripp's current Monica-gate testimony. Nor was the requisition of Tripp's file prompted by her confirmation of reports last year that Clinton had groped White House volunteer Kathleen Willey. Tripp's FBI dossier turned up in the White House in June 1994, more than three years before either of those scandals erupted. The chronology suggests that the early White House interest in Tripp had to do with her role in another White House scandal, one about which she had just been debriefed by FBI investigators. At the time Tripp's file was turned over to Livingstone, Special Prosecutor Robert Fiske was finishing up his investigation into the suspicious death of Vincent Foster. Fiske's Foster findings were released on June 30, 1994, just weeks after Tripp's file was handed off to Livingstone. Tripp was a key Foster case witness. She was the last person known to have seen the deputy White House counsel alive. When counsel office aide Tom Castleton revealed that Foster had taken his briefcase when he left the White House for the last time (only to have it magically re-appear in his office after his death), it was Linda Tripp who assured investigators that Castleton had been mistaken. But other aspects of her account could threaten to expose a cover-up. In Foster's final days, it was clear the White House had engaged in a full court press to keep him from wandering off the reservation. Meetings with Foster later described as spontaneous were engineered by Clinton damage controllers Webb Hubbell, Michael Cardozo and Marsha Scott. Scott told investigators she couldn't remember the details of her unusual closed door session with Foster on the day before his death, which she said lasted an hour or so. But Lucianne Goldberg told the Washington Weekly last April that, according to Linda Tripp, the Scott-Foster meeting consumed "most of the day". MORE at: etherzone.com