A senior government official had befriended a young White House intern
When the intern began to confide in her illicit affair with the President of the United States, the senior official began to tape record the conversations without the knowledge and consent of the intern. When the affair was exposed, the official turned the tapes over to government investigators. Can the official be prosecuted under state wiretapping laws that prohibit wiretapping by private individuals?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Answers may vary: Based loosely on the facts of Pentagon employee Linda Tripp's illegal wiretapping of her telephone conversations with intern Monica Lewinsky in the mid-1990s, Tripp was charged with violating Maryland state laws prohibiting the private taping of phone conversations, but the case was eventually dismissed.
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