FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR: Former Monica Lewinsky confidant and Pentagon employee Linda Tripp is back in the news, and at this hour, heading back to court. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken joins us now with details -- Bob.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She is the one, of course, who turned over to investigators the tape recordings of her conversations between -- with Monica Lewinsky over her relationship with the president. But now, she is going up against the Pentagon again, charging that, quote, "unidentified" Pentagon officials violated the Privacy Act when they disclosed, she claims, the knowledge that she was in Germany trying to get a job in January with the George Marshall Center, which is a think-tank located in Berlin. When she got to the George Marshall Center, her lawyers will claim, she was confronted with an article in "Stars and Stripe" newspaper, which is the around-the-world, armed forces newspaper, reporting on the fact that she was looking for the job. That, she said, was a violation of the law. She goes onto say in her lawsuit that it embarrassed her and undermined her efforts to get that job. So a lawsuit is being filed, which, one, asks that the judge order that the Pentagon cease any more unauthorized leaks about Linda Tripp. Secondly, that there will be monetary damages. They are not specified. And that she is allowed to go on unencumbered. As we heard just the other day, she is also involved with a dispute about the fact that she was released from her job because she refused to sign certain papers that the administration people, the outgoing Clinton administration people believed were part of a necessary arrangement that she was supposed to follow, and she refused. So Linda Tripp, who has been in the middle of controversy now for at least the last couple of years, continues to be in the middle of controversy. Her attorneys are going to be holding a news conference. They'
Linda Tripp Accuses Pentagon of Leaking Information