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Last month, as the White House was engaged in orchestrating a carefully choreographed diplomatic dance on the subject of Israeli settlements, rumors surfaced on the Washington blogs that Hillary Clinton was thinking of bringing Sidney Blumenthal, a steadfast Clinton loyalist, to the State Department as a speechwriting consultant. But this week, as Clinton delivered her first major policy address at the Council on Foreign Relations, The New York Times reported that Blumenthal was among several Clinton friends whose appointments had been scuttled by the Obama administration.