The Long Run Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs

NYT ^ | November 3, 2007 | MICHAEL POWELL

[Fred]

Wonder what this little one is thinking??

[nj26]

What’s that saying? You can judge a man by the company that he keeps.

[winner3000]

Is that the best slime the Slimes could come up with? That’s disappointing ;)

[Fred]

The Clinton campaign will latch on to this like a junkyard dog. Should the GOP have to defend this kind of crap during a presidential election?

[nmh]

Rudy didn’t want to know much about him. He saw him as effective for HIS purposes and didn’t question him.

Not good policy ... .

[nmh]

The slimes are AFRAID of Rudy.

They want to divide people and have them for for Chilllary, that ice queen.

Isn’t it amusing how they don’t question the company Chillary keeps ... dead bodies, foreign money ....?

[sono]

To think Bernie Kerik almost ran DHS ...

[tear gas]

Wow! That’s quite a picture. “Baby has two daddies.”

[Fred]

Already starting..Obama will take the high ground and grind on HRC and RG...

'From NBC's Mark Murray Regarding Giuliani today calling Obama's Iran strategy "naive" and "irresponsible," Obama spokesman Bill Burton pulls out the Bernie Kerik and Iraq Study Group cards.

"While Rudy Giuliani may embrace Hillary Clinton's policy of not talking and saber rattling towards Iran, Barack Obama knows that policy is not working," Burton said in a statement. "It's time for tough and direct diplomacy with Iran, not lectures from a Mayor who skipped out on the Iraq Study Group to give paid speeches, and who was naive and irresponsible enough to recommend someone with ties to convicted felons for Secretary of Homeland Security."

I want this all out in the open. Do not want to have to defend this nonsense for any republican...and if RG had any sense he would want it out too..

[jmaroneps37]

The slimes clutching at straws.

[Alberta's Child]

It was more than a year ago when I speculated that the Bernie Kerik story would be the most devastating problem the Giuliani campaign faces.

One of the things this article didn't mention is that Kerik had an open warrant for his arrest when he was nominated to be the head of the Department of Homeland Security.

This is the kind of sh!t we used to think only happened in Little Rock, Arkansas.

[calcowgirl]

Mr. Kerik followed Mr. Giuliani downstairs to a dimly lighted room. There waited Mr. Giuliani’s boyhood chum Peter J. Powers, who was first deputy mayor, and other aides. One by one, they pulled Mr. Kerik close and kissed his cheek. “I wonder if he noticed how much becoming part of his team resembled becoming part of a mafia family,” Mr. Kerik wrote. “I was being made.”

This guy just gets stranger and stranger.

[Liz]

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS SURGERY COMPLETED; THE WAY IT SHOULD READ:

.......as to Kerik's filthy links to organized crime, "Me-First Giuliani" defended the tainted Kerik----his former driver, bodyguard and business partner------whom Giuliani tried to foist on the Nation as Homeland/Sec/Secy so that Kerik could surveil FBI files to advance Power-Mad Giuliani's political ambitions.

"Me-First Giuliani" also connived to shield himself from the fact that he had knowledge of, but ignored, Kerik’s filthiness.

"I was not informed of it,” "Save-My-Rear Giuliani" said when asked if he had been warned about mobbed-up Kerik when he appointed Kerik to the top NYC police post in 2000.

"Security Expert Giuliani" had tripped up royally, and was forced to amend the statement last year in testimony to a state grand jury.

"Me-First Giuliani" acknowledged that the city investigations commissioner, Edward J. Kuriansky, had told him that Kerik was mob-connected at least once.

"Forgetful Giuliani" the security expert said that neither he nor any of his aides could recall being briefed about Kerik’s mob involvements.

But a review of Mr. Kuriansky’s diaries, and investigators’ notes from a 2004 interview with Giuliani indicate that such a session indeed took place.

Even more significant, according to the diaries compiled at the time and Kuriansky's later recollection to the investigators, Kuriansky recalled briefing Giuliani’s closest aides about Kerik’s dirty entanglements just days before Giuliani made his chauffeur, Kerik, (the man who knows where all of Giuliani's bodies are buried) the city's top cop.

[tear gas]

Very well stated, Liz.

Now that people are finally beginning to look carefully at fRudy's business dealings, he better start researching the statutes of limitation.

P.S. I like your tag line, too. LOL

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Rudy looks like RINOLD in that pic.

[calcowgirl]

Much better!

I hadn't noticed Rudy's cousin, before. How nice to have another member of the "family" in NYC enforcement, approving mobbed up businesses.

One night in July 1999, he sat in Walker’s, a bar in downtown Manhattan, defending Interstate to Raymond V. Casey, a cousin of Mayor Giuliani who was chief of enforcement for the city commission that was reviewing Interstate’s license application.

[calcowgirl]

Grumpy and Clueless

[Calpernia]

>>Interstate Industrial, a construction firm suspected of links to organized crime

Wow, that is interesting. Interstate Industrial have been campaign supporters of John Edwards and Christi Todd Whitman.

[wideminded]

"Security Expert Giuliani"

That's the biggest laugh. Why does he get credit for being a security expert when September 11th happened on his watch?

[Calpernia]

You know how much Giuliani loves the Yankees? Interstate Industrial built Yankee Stadium :)