Police: Clinton aide to plead guilty (Sidney Blumenthal)

[babylonsister]

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Police: Clinton aide to plead guilty


NASHUA, N.H. (AP) -- A senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to plead guilty to drunken driving after the arresting officer was ordered to Iraq making a trial on a more serious charge impossible, police said Monday.

Under the plea, Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist and former White House adviser to President Clinton, will lose his right to drive for 16 months.

Now an unpaid adviser to Hillary Clinton's campaign, Blumenthal, 59, was arrested Jan. 7, the day before the New Hampshire primary, and charged with aggravated drunken driving. Police said Blumenthal was traveling 70 mph in a 30 mph zone.

The case had been set for trial last week, but Blumenthal has agreed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of driving while intoxicated with enhanced penalties, Nashua police Capt. Peter Segal said.

In addition to the suspended license, he will pay a $750 fine plus a 20 percent penalty fee assessed by the court when he is sentenced April 18 in Nashua District Court, Segal said.

Blumenthal also will be required to undergo an alcohol intervention program, which he can do in Washington.

The plea deal was reached after the arresting officer was activated by the military and ordered to Iraq, Segal said, adding that without the officer's testimony a trial would not have been possible.

[Wilms]

1. Ouch!

:tinfoilhat: :popcorn:

[dkf]

2. Hey this must mean Hillary believes in Drunken Driving!!

[leveymg]

3. Worse. Aggravated Drunken Driving.

;-)

[Jack Rabbit]

4. The satrical possibilities are endless

Suddenly, DU posters named Van Buren Dem and Neverland's Child starts posting videos of Sidney Blumenthal failing a sobriety test, interspersed with grizzly stills of traffic fatalities and Hillary Clinton campaigning. The message: drunk driving is a national problem and Hillary Clinton, because of her long and intimate association with Sidney Blumenthal, her close adviser and a convicted drunk driver, is suspect. Can Senator Clinton be trusted to enforce the nation's laws against drunk driving? Is America under a Clinton presidency doomed to higher traffic fatalities because of drunk drivers like Sidney Blumenthal? Be very, very afraid. Invest in duct tape and plaster it over the the ignition key hole of Blumenthal's car and Mrs. Clinton's, too. You can't trust these people with your highways or their bottles.

Meanwhile, McCain rises in the polls.

[aquart]

5. Guilt by association. Good when it's Hillary. Bad when it's Obama.

Double standard? What double standard?

And what the flying fuck does this have to do with a political campaign, babylonsister. Nice dodge to get around GD-P restrictions and force this crap onto the main page.

You're candidate isn't desperate. Why the need for extra slime? Is it possible, like the sorceror's apprentice, you can't stop yourself?

[babylonsister]

6. Bite me. Blumenthal is part of Clinton's 'political campaign'. That's

where this is posted: Politics/Campaigns. Don't like it, don't read it.

And PS, I still have yet to see you post one thing positive about your candidate. All you know how to do is criticize. Oh, that's right! You don't have much to talk about, do you. :think:

[Peace Patriot]

7. The outrage here is that a police officer is being dragged over to Iraq, to

to fight a corporate resource war--with our hijacked military, hijacked national guard, and hijacked police, fire and other emergency services--that Hillary Clinton voted for and has fully supported.

It may be a coincidence that he was deployed--right off the street, where he was protecting people from drunk drivers--and that he could not then testify against Blumenthal on "a more serious charge." It's a matter that merits investigation, in my opinion. But granting coincidence, I'm wondering what was on Blumenthal's mind in New Hampshire that drove him to get drunk and greatly endanger himself and others, by driving 70mph in at 30mph zone. It could happen to anyone, yes--that you get so stressed and careless, that you don't care. A mountain of problems, a weak moment. (Thank God that that now deployed to Iraq officer was there, to prevent tragedy. Too bad he ain't gonna be there for others!) But why was such an important personage in Clinton's campaign freaking out in New Hampshire? That is my question. It is a fair question. The guy may end up in charge of more important things than his automobile--involving risk to many more lives. What got to him? Personal? Political? Of course George Bush is driving a whole country as if he were drunk--100mph straight to hell. And this may be true of our entire political establishment, which has enabled and fully supported his destructiveness. They're all driving recklessly, as if there were no tomorrow. Is Blumenthal a symptom of this? Was it just him? Was it something about the campaign he was working for? Or a general problem of lunacy among all those in power, and all the wannabes of power?