By Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Linda Tripp, the career civil servant who ignited the impeachment of President Bill Clinton by tape-recording his mistress, has died.
She was 70. Tripp was working in the Pentagon when she befriended Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern who was having an affair with the president.
In 1997, she made 22 hours of surreptitious recordings of Lewinsky speaking about the affair, and then handed them over to special prosecutor Ken Starr.
To Clinton’s supporters, Tripp became one of the primary villains of the impeachment episode — a false friend who had betrayed Lewinsky’s confidence out of partisan motives.
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