New memoirs by former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and former presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal have revived our memory of the "vast right-wing conspiracy."

New memoirs by former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and former presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal have revived our memory of the "vast right-wing conspiracy." In a recent essay in Salon, historian Scan Wilentz points out that the folks involved didn't fade away once the Clintons left the White House. In fact, many of them occupy high government positions in this administration. There's Theodore Olson, who advised the American Spectators infamous "Arkansas Project" and now serves as solicitor general of the United States. There's Brett Kavanaugh, former attack-dog lawyer on Ken Starr's staff and currently deputy legal counsel at the White House. And let's not forget Michael Chertoff, chief counsel of Sen. Al D'Amato's Whitewater committee, now head of the Department of Justice's criminal division and a Bush nominee to the federal bench.

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