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In the most obvious political prosecution of all time, the day after the President is fined ninety thousand dollars for being a liar in court, the federally immunized informant who started it all, is indicted in Maryland on two charges of wiretapping. Am I the only one around here who sees something wrong with this? I smell a democRAT in the courthouse! Maryland is a major Democrat state, and the State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli is a Democrat appointed in 1984. Whine as much as you want about finding a token Republican in the Maryland Wild Bunch; you will only have found someone in the Department, who is concerned about loosing his or her job!
This could easily boomerang on the revenge seeking Democrats. First, only the most extreme left wing liberals in the Democrat party are going to think this is fair; the rest will recognize it as the crude vendetta it obviously is. Tripp could actually benefit in the polls and/or gain publicity for a multi-million dollar book deal by receiving some sympathy? Second, any trial we allow the Tripp defense, including the eventual group of " Vast Right Wing Conspiracy " lawyers working for free, to call some witnesses to offer incredibly embarrassing testimony about Bill Clinton and his White House cronies!
Stephen Montanarelli tried to be a Clinton/DNC/Whitehouse spinmeister clone with a denial of the obvious political motivation, with, " I can't help how it will be seen. ... I think we've done our duty ". Yeah man, we can see you have done your duty for the first philanderer!
Philip Coughter, a previous Tripp spokesman, called the indictment " the most disgraceful, transparent campaign of politically motivated vengeance in recent American history ". Nice touch, huh?
White House crony Bob Weiner ( appropriate name, huh? ) ,reportedly said it would be " gratifying that the law may finally recognize her abuses. Her violations of privacy were an affront to the meaning of friendship ". Oh please, his comments are an affront to the meaning of decency!
A grand jury indicted Tripp on two counts of breaking Maryland's wiretapping law, which says that both parties in a conversation must be aware of any taping, to make it legal. Each offense is a felony, and could carry a penalty of up to five years in prison and a ten thousand dollar fine. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr gave Tripp federal immunity, but he could do nothing about what partisan state prosecutors, or a carefully guided Grand Jury, may do. Normally, one criminal agency wouldn't step on another's feet by indicting an informant, but I guess in these deperate times for Democrats, it leads to desperate measures by Democrats?
The actual specifics of the charges break down like this: 1) One count of ' illegal interception ', a charge stemming from a phone conversation taped on Dec. 22, 1997, after she was told by her lawyer that secret taping was illegal. Tripp did not lie about this, when questioned ( not like the march of Clinton conspiracy liars ). In this conversation, Tripp and Lewinsky talked about what they should say if called to testify about Ms. Lewinsky's sexual relationship with Clinton, for the Paula Jones lawsuit. 2) Disclosing the contents of that conversation to Newsweek magazine, which published a partial transcript of a Tripp-Lewinsky phone call on Feb. 2, 1998. To me, the only charge with even the smallest iota of weight, would be charge number two.
This could eventually end up being one of those " be careful what you wish for " routines for the revenge hungry Democrat sharks, who now smell Linda Tripp's blood in the water. I believe the road to any Linda Tripp prosecution, will be paved with new, more embarrassing, scandalous details about the deceit of Bill Clinton and the FOBs ( maybe some new indictments? )!
- Bongo ( Talk a little louder, please? )
