Linda Tripp has won her civil suit against the Pentagon, and will get over half a million dollars in compensation.

As Juan Non-Volokh notes:

Since so much of the blogosphere is outraged by the disclosure of confidential and personally damaging information by government officials in retaliation against political opponents, I assume those obsessed with the Plame affair will not let this story go unmentioned. There was an unquestioned violation of federal law here, leading to a substantial settlement, but the culprit was never identified, let alone punished.

Yes, Ken Bacon was the one who released the information to the public, but we never found out who in the White House gave it to him, and he was never even reprimanded, let alone punished within the law.

But of course, it was OK for the Clinton administration to break the law, because Linda Tripp was “fat,” and “betrayed a friend” (a “friend” who was suborning her perjury and conveying threats against her and her children). So no one pays any price except the taxpayer.