A senior adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to plead guilty to drunken driving after the arresting police officer was activated by the military and ordered to Iraq. Blumenthal, 59, was arrested Jan. 7, and charged with aggravated drunken driving. Police said Blumenthal was traveling 70 mph in a 30 mph zone. With the arresting police officer ordered to Iraq a trial on the more serious aggravated drunken driving charge was impossible, according to the police.

Under the plea bargin, Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist and former White House adviser to President Clinton, will lose his right to drive for 16 months, pay a $750 fine and be required to attend a alcohol intervention program.