Tripp, a Defense Department employee, had been a friend of Monica Lewinsky, who had herself worked as an assistant in Bacon's office in 1996 and 1997 (having been hired on the recommendation of the White House).

[4] Bacon issued a statement that the information he released was driven by "a desire to be responsive to an urgent media inquiry" and that the Inspector General's two-year investigation did not find any connection to the White House.

[5] In a 2003 settlement, following a lawsuit which claimed that the revelations violated the Privacy Act of 1974, Tripp received a payment of $595,000, retroactive promotion and salary increases for the years 1998 to 2000 and the right to reapply for government employment.

[1] After leaving his government post in 2001, Bacon became president of Refugees International, which asks world leaders to assist the millions worldwide who have fled their homes due to violence or persecution.

[8] In the weeks before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bacon suggested such methods as selection of bombing targets outside of densely populated areas as a means to reduce the number of refugees.

[4] Five days before his death (August 10), Refugees International announced that Bacon had endowed a new program to focus on people displaced by climate change.

He described difficulties in obtaining approval for payment of radiation therapy for cancer that had spread to his brain, which his insurer had deemed "not medically necessary", and expressed frustration with the amount of time he and his physician had to spend in dealing with paperwork.