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The Clintons are back. Sidney Blumenthal -- much-hated former Clinton aide, ethically challenged former journalist -- $850,000 advance in hand, has a new book out on May 20, attacking everyone who ever attacked him or the Clintons, rehearsing once again the old right-wing conspiracy, every attack on them, answered. The right wing conspiracy revived, answered, again. Hillary's book is next. Could someone please tell these people to shut up? The Democrats might have a chance of electing a new president if they could get the last one, and his defenders, to clear the stage. It doesn't matter if they're right...

In an op-ed article in the New York Times on April 11, Eason Jordan, the chief news executive at CNN, said he had been to Baghdad many times to get the government to keep CNN's bureau open. He said, "Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff." Here is one of the stories CNN suppressed. Jordan said, "In the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he...