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Linda Rose Tripp (née Carotenuto; born November 24, 1949) is a former U.S. civil servant who figured in the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal of 1998–99. Tripp's action in secretly recording Lewinsky's confidential phone calls about her relationship with the President caused a sensation with their links to the earlier ''Jones v. Clinton'' lawsuit and with the disclosing of notably intimate details. Tripp claimed that her motives were purely patriotic, and she was able to avoid a wiretap charge in exchange for handing in the tapes. She then claimed that her firing from the Pentagon at the end of the Clinton administration was vindictive, while the administration claimed it to be a standard routine. Still, she was able to claim generous compensation for unauthorized revelations about her security clearance. Tripp works with her husband in a retail business in Middleburg, Virginia. ==Early life and government employment== Tripp was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She graduated in 1968 from Hanover Park High School in East Hanover, New Jersey.〔("THE ULTIMATE NEW JERSEY HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK: T-Z AND ALSO..." ), ''The Star-Ledger'', June 27, 1999. Accessed August 4, 2007.〕 Tripp was an Army Intelligence secretary at Fort Meade before being transferred to the Pentagon in 1987. Tripp was a White House employee in the George H. W. Bush administration, and kept her job when Bill Clinton took over in 1993. During the summer of 1994, senior White House aides wanted Tripp out, so they arranged a job for her in the public affairs office in the Pentagon which gave her a raise of $20,000 per year.〔Goldstein, Amy; and Sanchez, Rene. ("Tripp's Curious Path to the Pentagon" ), ''The Washington Post'', February 7, 1998, p. A12. Accessed October 9, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linda Tripp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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