New York Post-May 30, 2000
WANT TO BE HER PAL? JUST SMEAR HER ENEMIES
By Dick Morris
SEATS at official state dinners at the White House are political
plums which the president and the first lady use to reward their
friends and punish their enemies. When former New Yorker reporter
Jane Mayer was seated at Hillary Clinton's table during last
week's state dinner honoring the President of South Africa, it
was a loud signal that meant: thank you for running with the
story that exposed Linda Tripp's Pentagon personnel file and
please continue to keep your mouth shut about who tipped you off.
It is no coincidence that in the very same week that the Pentagon
Inspector General determined that two top Defense Department
officials had violated Tripp's privacy in releasing information
from her personnel file to Mayer that Jane found herself seated
amid the glitter at the first lady's table at a state dinner.
The issue, first raised in this column two years ago, arose when
Mayer wrote that Tripp had been detained by the police as a
teenager and noted that she had not disclosed the incident when
asked about her background for her Defense Department job. After
this column questioned how Mayer got the information, Defense
Department spokesman Ken Bacon and his former deputy Chris
Bernath stepped forward and admitted that they had leaked Tripp's
personnel file in response to a question from Mayer.
At the time, we suggested - and still believe - that the White
House must have been involved in the decision to leak the file. A
step of this magnitude, against an adversary as pivotal to the
Lewinsky scandal as Linda Tripp, would not have been taken
without Hillary's OK. It's how the White House works in this
administration.
Mayer maintained that she got the information from an old friend
of the Tripp family. Likely she did. But who found the source,
and how did Jane learn of it? My suspicion is that the White
House secret police - the detectives they kept on the payroll -
were behind it.
Despite the Inspector General's official finding that the episode
violated Tripp's Privacy rights and his suggestion that Defense
Secretary William Cohen take "appropriate corrective action,"
Cohen simply sent a letter reprimanding each man and refused to
punish them. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla) called Cohen's action
a "whitewash and cover-up" and noted that "the law was broken and
nothing is being done about it."
Incredibly, Cohen took the position that "there was no attempt to
injure Miss Tripp's credibility or her reputation. They [Bacon
and Bernath] were seeking to respond to pressure from the press
... and there was no attempt to orchestrate any campaign to
discredit Miss Tripp."
Generally, it is a good political rule never to say anything that
the average 6-year-old knows isn't true. Is the Pentagon so
helpful to every reporter that any call about any employee asking
for any information from their secret personnel file will be
greeted with a prompt and forthcoming release of the data? Was it
a coincidence that Tripp happened to be the president's leading
accuser and that the information Bacon and Bernath released
damaged her reputation?
More coincidences: Jane Mayer, who has since been fired, worked
at the New Yorker with Sydney Blumenthal. Lots of evidence
suggests that Blumenthal is a conduit to the press for negative
material on Clinton accusers. He was caught boasting to reporter
Christopher Hutchins about the dirt the White House had on
Kathleen Willey. Right after the president told Blumenthal that
Lewinsky was a stalker, stories repeating the charge appeared in
the press.
Blumenthal has also testified that he spoke to Hillary before
deciding to release the letters Kathleen Willey had written to
President Clinton. This release, also determined to be a
violation of the Privacy Act (this time a criminal one), was also
intended to smear a Clinton accuser.
Blumenthal was, from the beginning, Hillary's boy. During the
1996 campaign, back when Blumenthal pretended to be an objective
journalist, she constantly pestered me to meet with him and would
speak with Sydney every week.
And now, this very same Jane Mayer ends up sitting next to
Hillary at a state dinner the very same week that a report comes
out saying that the information she received on Tripp violated
the Privacy Act. Quelle coincidence!
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