Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Stone Blumenthalis an American journalist, activist, writer and former political aide. He is a former aide to President Bill Clinton; a long-time confidant to Hillary Clinton; and a journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. He was editor of several departments and wrote for several publications including The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. After 2000, he published several essays critical of the administration of President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.
collapse eventually of their own insubstantiality. And in these conversations with me, the First Lady has always been supportive of the president.
If Ken Starr is interested in the truth, he heard it today.
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
Do you remember that story I told you back in January? Well now that you're actually going to be a witness, now that you're going down to testify before the grand jury, I don't want you to give the grand jury a false impression. I don't want you to give false information to the grand jury. I don't want you to be a cog in the wheel of an obstruction of giving the grand jury the opportunity to hear the truth. I need to recant for you what I told you.
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.