Sidney Blumenthal is a former assistant and senior adviser to President Clinton. He is the author of the
The Clinton Wars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
2003), and other books, including
The Permanent Campaign and
The Rise of the Counter-Establishment. He is a columnist for the
Guardian,
Salon.com and
OpenDemocracy.net , and a former staff writer for the
Washington Post, the
New Yorker and the
New Republic. He is currently senior fellow at the New York University Centre on Law and Security.