Sid Blumenthal had cultivated a strong relationship with Hillary Clinton when he was Washington correspondent for the New Yorker, so when he quit to join the Clinton White House in 1997, there were jokes about whether he'd ask for back pay.
Since his controversial tenure as an assistant to the 42nd president--Blumenthal wound up having to testify on the Monica Lewinsky messiness--he has, among other things, been a Bush-bashing columnist for Salon.
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