Linda Tripp, central figure in the Clinton scandal, dead at 70
(WorldNews Politics)

By Gene Maddaus | Variety.com LOS ANGELES – 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,...