It was my hotmail account. The header to the email was still there, but there was no message, i.e., the text of my very lengthy story. I'm not going to worry about it. This job is not worth the stress level, I'll tell you that.
Could the demise of Rudolph Giuliani protegé Bernard Kerik end up helping Rudy's former antagonist Bill Bratton?
The Los Angeles police chief, whom the former mayor fired after he landed on the cover of Time magazine for leading the crime turnaround in New York City, has been a favorite of President Bush and outgoing Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, who often point to the City of Angels as a role model for preparedness.
Bratton and his counterterrorism chief John Miller, who found Osama bin Laden and interviewed him when he was a TV journalist, have sent detectives to Iraq to work with the Marines to study Al Qaeda methods of kidnappings, attacks, device building and use of electronics. They have also built relationships with the CIA and FBI, and with the L.A. Fire Department (fire brass are invited to police intelligence meetings), which have been historically been strained in New York.
Not to mention that Bratton has lowered crime stats in L.A. the same way he did here - as the L.A. Times reported last week.
"Bratton would be the smartest, but not the most likely choice," said one law-enforcement source. "He's really apolitical, but he associated himself with former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green's failed run for mayor, so he's probably seen as a Democrat." http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/261986p-224157c.html