Rudy The Day
Why Rudy Giuliani thought that Bernie Kerik's various shenanigans would not somehow hurt his presidential chances is a matter for the pop psychologists out there. All I can fathom is that he simply thought that Americans would forget that Giuliani Security and Safety was originally Giuliani-Kerik LLC.
[Kerik's resignation] severs a lucrative professional relationship with his mentor, Mr. Giuliani, who made him first correction commissioner and then police commissioner and who helped make Mr. Kerik a wealthy man in the law enforcement consulting field. Mr. Kerik became a national figure after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, writing a best-selling book and earning the admiration of President Bush, who sent him to Iraq in 2003 as interim minister of the interior to rebuild that nation's police force....
Mr. Kerik, who served as police commissioner from Aug. 19, 2000, until Dec. 31, 2002, said he had decided to resign immediately from his positions as senior vice president of Giuliani Partners L.L.C. and chief executive of Giuliani-Kerik L.L.C., an affiliate. He said the furor that followed the Dec. 10 withdrawal of his nomination - when he said he discovered he had not paid taxes for a nanny and did not know her immigration status - was beginning to affect the firm.
That Bernie Kerik was involved in the "rebuilding" of the Iraqi police force, a force so robust and powerful that tens of thousands of American troops are somehow still needed to keep the peace, should not surprise anyone.
Labels: Bernie Kerik, blast from the past, Iraqi "government", Rudy Giuliani
