-Caveat Lector- <http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2069-2001Jan30.html> Sidney Blumenthal Tells It Like It Was By Lloyd Grove Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 30, 2001; 12:20 PM Just as we suspected, former presidential assistant Sidney Blumenthal was running the government. Perhaps even the world. That's our inescapable conclusion after reading his book proposal for "The Clinton Wars," the unwritten White House memoir for which Farrar Straus & Giroux is paying an impressive $650,000 advance, with plans to publish sometime next year. "The Clinton Wars will present the untold story behind the actions and policies of the presidency from my perspective as a close adviser and confidant to both President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton," Blumenthal writes in the proposal, which we managed to obtain this morning. "During my tenure as Assistant to the President, from 1997 to 2001, I have had consistent and unique access. My personal knowledge and information from this time has been exclusively reserved for this book and almost every page will recount a previously unknown anecdote." Blumenthal, who writes that he has known the Clintons since his stint in the 1980s as a national reporter for The Washington Post and eventually formed "a confidential relationship" with them, describes his book as "a first-hand account from the inside of the Clinton White House by one who was at the center of the conflicts, politics, scandals, and successes of the presidency." The breadth of his narrative ranges from "inside Air Force One to the sealed Senate impeachment hearing room to Kosovar refugee camps," he writes, and includes "my dramatic conversation with the First Lady that was the subject of Ken Starr's suit to the Supreme Court over executive privilege, but which, once he won, his prosecutors forgot to ask me about before the Grand Jury." Predictably, the author will recount "the strange process of demonization that also came to be centered on me" and apparently plans to settle scores with such figures named in his proposal as Matt Drudge, Christopher Hitchens, Tim Russert, Newt Gingrich, Chris Matthews, Tom DeLay, Sally Quinn and George Will. And he intends to show "that the First Lady's statement about a 'vast right-wing conspiracy' was not an exaggeration." Blumenthal writes: "The book will detail how I learned about the subterranean multi-million dollar dirty tricks campaign against the President through a friendship with disillusioned right-wing hitman, David Brock." Other highlights: * "I will discuss Elie Wiesel's moral influence, Tony Blair's firmness, Madeleine Albright's toughness, and what really happened in the sudden firing of General Wesley Clark." * "I will tell the inside story of the Clinton-Blair relationship. . . . I will explain how I came to first introduce Bill Clinton to Tony Blair before he became Prime Minister and then to serve as the President's liaison in this special relationship." * "The Clinton Wars will encompass the political campaigns of 2000, both Hillary's and Al Gore's, in which I played major roles every day. . . . I will discuss my involvement with the Vice President during the administration on such issues as global warming and race as well as my political counsel to him and his team during the primaries and the general election campaign." Blumenthal stirringly concludes his proposal: "I intend to write a book that will serve as a central and essential reference for all historians of the future." Hey, Sid, when you get around to it, can you comp us an autographed copy? ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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