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MEDIUM RARE By Jim Rarey September 15, 1999 LINDA TRIPP - KEY TO WACO? What in the world, you might say, could Linda Tripp have to do with the Waco disaster? Please bear with me. Review the facts presented here and reach your own conclusions. That Linda Tripp was more than just a secretary who happened to be in the right place (or the wrong place, depending on your point of view) at critical times is indisputable. Consider the following chronology of positions she held. Tripp married a career army officer, Bruce Tripp, who probably was in military intelligence. According to an article in the March 23, 1998 issue of Newsweek, "She was introduced to covert operations through a secretarial job at U.S. Army Intelligence Command at Fort Meade, Maryland. " The article continues, "Following her husband to Fort Bragg, N.C., she got a job with the top-secret commando unit, Delta Force, so secret she couldn’t describe it on paper. ‘The nature of this position is classified,’ she explains on her resume." From Delta Force, Tripp was transferred to the Bush White House working in the press office. When George Bush lost the election to Bill Clinton she was placed on the transition team to work with the incoming administration. With her top secret clearance, she was assigned by the Clinton White House to one of the most sensitive positions available under civil service as secretary to the new Chief Legal Counsel, Bernard Nussbaum. Nussbaum was Hillary Rodham’s law professor at Yale Law School and worked on the Nixon impeachment House Committee where he brought Hillary on as a staffer. It is generally thought that Hillary was responsible for Nussbaum’s appointment as White House Legal Counsel. In her job, Tripp undoubtedly was privy to information on the scandals that started almost at the very beginning of the Clinton administration (Travelgate and the FBI files, to mention a couple). Waco also happened during her stint with Nussbaum (more on that later). When Nussbaum was replaced as White House Counsel (for reasons which are not clear) Tripp was transferred to an even more sensitive position as secretary to Vince Foster! Foster, a partner with Hillary Clinton at the Rose law firm, was a senior attorney in the White House Counsel Office, but more than that was handling the personal legal affairs of the Clintons. Tripp was the last person to see Foster in the White House on the day of his death. The other imbroglios in which she was involved are pretty much public knowledge (the Kathleen Willey and Monica Lewinsky affairs). How did it come about that Linda Tripp was assigned to two such sensitive positions? Neither of the Clintons knew her before they encountered her on the Bush transition team. Why would they assign her to such sensitive jobs? Obviously, she was recommended by someone the Clintons trusted (or to whom they couldn’t say no). Even more curious is Tripp’s relationship with Lucianne Goldberg and Goldberg’s background. According to an article by Elise Ackerman in the Feb. 23, 1998 issue of U.S. News and World Report, Goldberg is married to an editor at the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), "with ties to U.S. intelligence agencies", Ackerman relates. Ackerman also goes out of her way to tell us that, "It (NANA) was founded by Ernest Cuneo, a veteran of the OSS, the precursor to the CIA." (The role of reporters and journalists is a classic cover for covert intelligence agents.) The Ackerman article also relates the story of Lucianne Goldberg’s experience in "dirty tricks" for the Nixon campaign. Goldberg, evidently with genuine press credentials from Women’s News Service (an affiliate of NANA) traveled on the McGovern press plane during McGovern’s campaign against Richard Nixon in 1972. According to the article, Goldberg later said she was collecting information on reporters and Secret Service agents as to "Who was sleeping with who, what the Secret Service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane-that sort of thing." That information certainly had nothing to do with the McGovern campaign strategy but might have been useful in blackmailing reporters, journalists and Secret Service agents.
How does all of this relate to Waco? Michael McNulty, the producer of two film documentaries on Waco ("Rules of Engagement" and the soon to be released "A New Revelation"), has claimed on cable television shows to have documentation that indicates decisions on FBI activities at Waco were made in the White House involving; Webster Hubbell, Vincent Foster, Hillary Clinton and Bernard Nussbaum. The advance issue of the Sept. 27, 1999 issue of the New American Magazine reports on a meeting held on April 14, 1993 (just five days before the final FBI assault at Waco) at which Janet Reno and Webster Hubbell met with military commanders from Delta Force and the army’s First Cavalry division as well as the FBI’s leaders of the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT). At that meeting, Reno approved the use of the CS tear gas against the Branch Davidians (which has been banned by international treaty from use in warfare because of its flammable nature). Contemporaneous notes of that meeting (obtained by World Net Daily and published on its web site on August 28th of this year) reflect that Reno was already aware of that strategy at the time of the meeting. The notes reflect that the advice of the military was not followed and the final assault was conducted according to an FBI plan. The military (according to the notes) was reluctant to participate in the operation. However, ex-CIA officer Gene Cullen asserts that Delta Force was directly involved in the final siege. But what of Linda Tripp? The former Delta Force operative has testified in congressional hearings, before Ken Starr’s grand jury as well as in depositions in Judicial Watch civil suits. Tripp herself is quoted as saying that, while she has testified truthfully, she has not testified fully (evidently following the standard legal advice to answer all questions but don’t volunteer anything). Since neither the grand jury nor Judicial Watch were concerned with Waco, it is unlikely that Tripp gave them any information she had from her vantage point in Nussbaum’s office relative to Waco. We do not know what may have been discussed with congressional staff members or in executive session with committee members. According to Lucianne Goldberg’s statements on several TV talk shows, only about one third of Tripp’s testimony before the grand jury concerned the Lewinsky and Willey affairs with the balance about "other" matters. In her civil depositions with Judicial Watch, Tripp has shown detailed knowledge of the FBI files caper. It is reasonable to believe that she was just as alert during the planning of the Waco assault, which also occurred during her time in Nussbaum’s office. The following falls somewhere between speculation and an informed opinion. It is reasonable (in this writer’s opinion) to infer that Tripp was an intelligence operative (military or CIA?) inserted, first into the Bush White House, and then into the Clinton White House as a "watchdog". If that is true, then it is obvious that her chain of command did not tree up to the president. Tripp has publicly stated that she observed many illegal actions while in the Clinton White House. Why then did she only surface during the Willey-Lewinsky scandal? The answer may be that she was being pressured to perjure herself on the Willey affair and was threatened with prosecution for perjury if she told the truth! That triggered the taping of Monica Lewinsky because she knew no one would believe her without incontrovertible proof. Is Tripp a patriot who finally "had enough" or an intelligence operative who was forced to surface by Clinton’s heavy handed tactics in covering up his compulsive sexual escapades? She may be both. The jury is still out. Of greater import, however, is the question, "Is there a separate (and secret) organization within the government that operates independently of the Executive Branch, and if so to whom does it report?" What do you think? Permission is granted to reproduce in its entirety or call Jim Rarey at (734) 942-7667 Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om |
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