Clinton BigWig Busted DWI Before NH, News Only Breaks Now
The Blumenthals and the Klintons, way back when. Notice the wife keeps her distance…
This guy was doing 70mph in a 30mph zone. I personally would have drug him out of the car and beat him to death.
I’m just wondering…if this had been someone in theMcCain, or Romney, or Thompson, or any other Republican candidate’s camp, I’m thinking we would have heard it before the elction.
Oh yeah, and Blumenthal has a wife-beating past…it was one of the stories that helped launch Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report.
What kind of strings did the Klintons pull to put the lid on this story?
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.
Read the whole Newsweek article here.
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I would drink to if I had to put up with her every day.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pmJust goes to show you can know a man/woman by the company that they keep. Scum usually hangs out with other scum. Will it get much play in the MSM. Maybe on the Osama network at NBC or MSLSD.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pmI’m sorry he wasn’t with Teddy on the bridge that night–maybe two for one.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:30 am