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by the press from public scrutiny until after the New Hampshire primary. And
now this drunken driving criminal will employ his war room propaganda
tactics defending the indefensible.
America should take note of this because if Clinton is elected, this is a
small insight as to how she will deal with anything or anyone she perceives
as a threat to her authoritarian dictatorship!
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/01/11/blumenthal-on-the-boil.aspx
Sidney Blumenthal plays hardball. A longtime confidante and adviser to the
Clintons, he has zealously defended them through any number of scandal
investigations. Along the way, Blumenthal has shown an affinity for the
sharp counterattack. When a group of Arkansas state troopers in the early
1990s began leveling charges that Bill Clinton had strayed in his marriage,
Blumenthal shot back--penning an article in The New Yorker accusing the
troopers of a litany of their own transgressions, including attempted fraud,
marital infidelity and drunken driving.
Now, Blumenthal himself faces charges of driving drunk. Blumenthal, an
unpaid senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, was
arrested in Nashua on the eve of the New Hampshire primary and charged with
aggravated DWI, according two members of the Nashua police force.
Sgt. Mike Masella, one of the arresting officers, said the movements of a
Buick caught his eye. "I observed all his erratic driving," Masella said.
"When I first noticed him it was at an intersection. He abruptly stopped.
That caught my eye . He was drifting in his lane." Masella followed the car,
a rental, for a mile and a half, and clocked its speed at 70mph in a 30mph
zone--more than twice the legal limit. Masella pulled the car over at 12:30
a.m. Monday morning. Blumenthal told the officer he was returning to his
hotel from a restaurant in Manchester. After declining to take a
Breathalyzer, Masella says, Blumenthal failed a field sobriety test.
Blumenthal was handcuffed, booked, had his fingerprints taken and was held
for four hours--standard operating procedure in such arrests in New
Hampshire--before posting bail and being released. (He will be arraigned
later this month.) Because the car was moving at excessive speeds,
Blumenthal was given the more serious charge of "aggravated" DWI--which
carries a mandatory sentence of at least three days behind bars. "He's
charged with a serious crime," says Nashua Police Capt. Peter Segal, who
will oversee the case as it moves toward a court date.
Ray Mello, a New Hampshire attorney, says he is representing Blumenthal and
will explore "all of the avenues of discovery."
"In reality, it's a traffic violation," Mello said, noting that the more
serious "aggravated" DWI charge is due to the alleged speeding, not "degree
of intoxication." When asked if Blumenthal was driving drunk, Mello said,
"He's going to pursue all legal defenses in court, and we're going to deal
with the case in court and not in the media." (The Clinton campaign declined
comment on the arrest and whether it would affect Blumenthal's status as an
adviser.)
Blumenthal's attorney could, of course, work out a plea agreement with
prosecutors and spare his client jail time. Masella said that Blumenthal, a
journalist and author currently working as a senior fellow for the New York
University Center on Law and Security, was a gracious arrestee. "I asked if
he was here with a campaign. He said he was here with Clinton," Masella
said. "Other than that we certainly suspected him of DWI, he was a perfect
gentleman."
now this drunken driving criminal will employ his war room propaganda
tactics defending the indefensible.
America should take note of this because if Clinton is elected, this is a
small insight as to how she will deal with anything or anyone she perceives
as a threat to her authoritarian dictatorship!
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/01/11/blumenthal-on-the-boil.aspx
Sidney Blumenthal plays hardball. A longtime confidante and adviser to the
Clintons, he has zealously defended them through any number of scandal
investigations. Along the way, Blumenthal has shown an affinity for the
sharp counterattack. When a group of Arkansas state troopers in the early
1990s began leveling charges that Bill Clinton had strayed in his marriage,
Blumenthal shot back--penning an article in The New Yorker accusing the
troopers of a litany of their own transgressions, including attempted fraud,
marital infidelity and drunken driving.
Now, Blumenthal himself faces charges of driving drunk. Blumenthal, an
unpaid senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, was
arrested in Nashua on the eve of the New Hampshire primary and charged with
aggravated DWI, according two members of the Nashua police force.
Sgt. Mike Masella, one of the arresting officers, said the movements of a
Buick caught his eye. "I observed all his erratic driving," Masella said.
"When I first noticed him it was at an intersection. He abruptly stopped.
That caught my eye . He was drifting in his lane." Masella followed the car,
a rental, for a mile and a half, and clocked its speed at 70mph in a 30mph
zone--more than twice the legal limit. Masella pulled the car over at 12:30
a.m. Monday morning. Blumenthal told the officer he was returning to his
hotel from a restaurant in Manchester. After declining to take a
Breathalyzer, Masella says, Blumenthal failed a field sobriety test.
Blumenthal was handcuffed, booked, had his fingerprints taken and was held
for four hours--standard operating procedure in such arrests in New
Hampshire--before posting bail and being released. (He will be arraigned
later this month.) Because the car was moving at excessive speeds,
Blumenthal was given the more serious charge of "aggravated" DWI--which
carries a mandatory sentence of at least three days behind bars. "He's
charged with a serious crime," says Nashua Police Capt. Peter Segal, who
will oversee the case as it moves toward a court date.
Ray Mello, a New Hampshire attorney, says he is representing Blumenthal and
will explore "all of the avenues of discovery."
"In reality, it's a traffic violation," Mello said, noting that the more
serious "aggravated" DWI charge is due to the alleged speeding, not "degree
of intoxication." When asked if Blumenthal was driving drunk, Mello said,
"He's going to pursue all legal defenses in court, and we're going to deal
with the case in court and not in the media." (The Clinton campaign declined
comment on the arrest and whether it would affect Blumenthal's status as an
adviser.)
Blumenthal's attorney could, of course, work out a plea agreement with
prosecutors and spare his client jail time. Masella said that Blumenthal, a
journalist and author currently working as a senior fellow for the New York
University Center on Law and Security, was a gracious arrestee. "I asked if
he was here with a campaign. He said he was here with Clinton," Masella
said. "Other than that we certainly suspected him of DWI, he was a perfect
gentleman."