With a Friend Like This...

Friends don't tape friends, so could we all quit calling Linda Tripp anything but the spy-provocateur she is? Nothing in this mess is more inexplicable than how anyone could record, day after day, the most intimate details, real or imagined, of another person's life. Tripp claims to have so insinuated herself into Lewinsky's life that the two had a sleepover at Monica's apartment. That was the night Tripp claims the President phoned at 2 a.m. Lewinsky's lawyer says Tripp "was never privy" to such a call.

Last Friday, Tripp issued a statement to offset her image as the villain of the...

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