Is there a difference between Spies Like Jack Ruby and Spies like Linda Tripp?

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Gazzetteer - 03 Jan 2009 08:05 GMT

Let me preface this argument by saying that most crime is never solved
and unindicted criminals are a dime a dozen.

Some people, mostly conservative commentators, claim that Linda Trip
was a "whistleblower" while others, mostly reasonable people, find it
difficult to justify anything she has ever done.

In that context, the following is a fascinating, insightful,
historical/philosophical perspective. What do you think? Who is Linda
Tripp?

http://surftofind.com/tripp

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tinwhistler - 03 Jan 2009 23:37 GMT

> Let me preface this argument by saying that most crime is never solved
> and unindicted criminals are a dime a dozen.
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> http://surftofind.com/tripp

I guess the issue presented by this thread is whether or not Jack Ruby
and Linda Tripp played similar or different roles in carrying out
assignments given to them, such assignments being their acts
celebrated in the media for which they are mainly known to the
public. My take is that Ruby was there to silence a story and Tripp
was there to make sure one got told roles almost opposite in essence.
Curt Gentry wrote a biography of J Edgar Hoover in which he claimed
that Ruby traveled between Miami and Havana for ten years carrying the
skim of the US mob familities back from the casinos, and that the
Warren Commission was never told about this by the FBI even though the
agency had detailed knowledge.
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Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego

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Is there a difference between Spies Like Jack Ruby and Spies like Linda Tripp?