[Again, the Clintonistas escape. So, we have the Privacy Act violated in Tripp's case, and so what? No punishment. Not even a note in the offenders' personnel file. Well, I guess it's time for the lawyers to chime in. First, this is prima facie evidence that violations of the law have been committed. Cohen is not a prosecutor and I would think this decision regarding prosecution should rest with others than their supervisor who, for all we know, may have been actively or passively involved. Second, since this violation of Linda Tripp's privacy is now firmly established fact, I would think that Tripp has an actionable claim for damages (which are huge). Third, this incident involves people other than subordinates of Cohen ... the WH press office and Blumenthal come to mind ... who also may have been complicit in this matter. Cohen cannot close the case on them. --MS] ----------------------------------------------- Pentagon Violated Tripp Privacy By Robert Burns AP Military Writer Thursday, May 25, 2000; 2:49 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON –– Top Defense Department public affairs officials violated the Privacy Act by releasing information from Linda Tripp's personnel file to a reporter in 1998, the Pentagon's inspector general concluded in a report released today. In response to the finding, Defense Secretary William Cohen today sent letters to Kenneth Bacon, assistant secretary for public affairs, and to his main deputy, Clifford H. Bernath, "to express my disappointment" in their judgment. Cohen termed both men's actions "hasty and ill-considered," but also said: "This was a departure from the very high quality of performance that you have otherwise exhibited." [Spokesman Rear Adm. Craig Quigley said Cohen considers the matter closed and will taken no further action. Quigley said Cohen chose not to make his letters a part of either Bacon's or Bernath's permanent personnel file. --MS] Tripp, who attracted national headlines by secretly recording conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, worked for Bacon in the Pentagon's public affairs office, as did Lewinsky. In the midst of the Lewinsky scandal in March 1998, Bacon and Bernath were involved in informing a reporter for The New Yorker magazine that Tripp stated on a security clearance form she never had been arrested. In fact, Tripp was arrested for grand larceny as a teen-ager, a charge later reduced to loitering in an incident Tripp's lawyers called a youthful prank. ---- http://www.judicialwatch.org/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2000 Contact: Tom Fitton (202) 646-5172 ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO Linda Tripp Now Free To Fight Back (Washington, DC) With the bogus criminal charges against Linda Tripp now dismissed, she is completely free to pursue her own case for privacy violations against the Clinton-Gore Administration. In Judicial Watch's $90-million class-action lawsuit, the public interest law firm uncovered that Clinton political appointees were behind the illegal smear campaign, emanating from the Pentagon against Ms. Tripp. In addition, Judicial Watch uncovered that the Clinton-Gore White House had obtained Ms. Tripp's FBI file, in a likely further effort to smear her. Ms. Tripp is a putative plaintiff in Judicial Watch's Filegate lawsuit. 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