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| Jun 5, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Linda Tripp Reveals Outrage Judicial Watch Had Uncovered Clinton Administration Lies on Tripp Pentagon File Release (Washington, DC) Linda Tripp revealed in Charleston, South Carolina this past weekend that, based on Pentagon documents, the taxpayers will foot the bill for the private lawyers of Clinton Pentagon officials Kenneth Bacon and Clifford Bernath, who violated the Privacy Act when they released information from her personnel security file to the press. Judicial Watch uncovered the true circumstances of the Tripp release in the course of its Filegate civil litigation -- the $90 million class action lawsuit on behalf of Reagan and Bush staffers and others, whose FBI files were improperly taken and misused by the Clinton White House. (Hillary Clinton is a defendant in this lawsuit.) Both Judge Royce Lamberth and the Clinton Defense Department Inspector General found that the evidence showed that Bacon and Bernath violated the Privacy Act when they released Tripp's confidential information to The New Yorker magazine. Nevertheless, neither Defense Secretary William Cohen nor the Clinton-Gore Justice Department will take any real action against either man. At a South Carolina meeting of the members of the Internet site FreeRepublic.com this past Saturday, Tripp revealed, based on documentary evidence, that the Clinton-Gore Defense Department has agreed to pay the private legal bills of Bacon and Bernath. Judicial Watch has moved the Court to allow it to participate with Ms. Tripp in her civil lawsuit against Bacon, Bernath, and others who she alleges schemed to destroy her. "It is bad enough that Bacon and Bernath will not be held accountable for their crimes against Linda Tripp by the Pentagon or Justice Department," stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman. "The idea that taxpayers will pay their legal bills is another outrage. Frankly, it sounds like a payoff for a ‘job well done' by Bacon's and Bernath's political masters at the Clinton-Gore White House." Judicial Watch is a public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. |
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