Sidney Blumenthal Departs Salon For HRC Campaign

An editor’s note at the top of Sidney Blumenthal’s column this week
breaks the news, but I thought I’d share it here as well: He’s leaving
Salon to join the Hillary Clinton campaign as a senior advisor. His
incisive thinking and incomparable writing will be missed. Sidney was
our Washington bureau chief during the 2004 election, presided over one
of the best accounts of George W. Bush’s missing year
in the Texas Air National Guard, and has been a weekly Salon columnist
since 2003. As the Bush administration destroyed most of what it
touched, from Iraq to the Justice Department, his column has been must
reading, for the way it captures big-picture themes as well as the
small, sad portraits of major players, from Colin Powell to Alberto Gonzales to Scooter Libby to Karen Hughes.
It’s too bad we’ll have to live through the closing days of the Bush
administration without his weekly illumination, but we wish him well on
the campaign front.