Hitch Is No Snitch

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Did Trotsky's fate seal Sidney Blumenthal's?

Christopher Hitchens and I do not agree about very much. For example, as a friend of Albania and Albanians, I will never forgive his assault on the outstanding Albanian personality of our time, Mother Teresa. But when I heard that this U.S.-based British provocateur had blown the whistle on Sidney Blumenthal for lying to the Senate about slandering Monica-and was being savaged by the left for doing so-I felt a pang of responsibility.

Let me explain. I first met Hitch, as he is known far and wide, at the Second Thoughts conference in Washington in 1987. He insulted me in an exceptionally rude manner, as reported in one of the …