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
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.
The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.
It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.
At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
was about the prosecutors, what's been said about them, what Mr. Blumenthal has heard about them.
I did not urge or encourage any reporter to investigate the private life of any member of Congress. Any suggestions otherwise are completely false.
No. Absolutely not. We never discussed the personal lives of any woman in those meetings.
Sidney did more than fine. Everyone is impressed at how Sidney stayed low key.
My administration's climate change policy will be science based,
The president shared his account of the Lewinsky matter with me, ... He did so unguardedly and freely under the assumption that we were speaking in complete privacy. What I told the grand jury under oath supports completely what the president has told the American people and is contrary to any charge that the president has done anything wrong.