Heckuva job there, Al

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White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik
Giuliani, Gonzales Pushed DHS Bid Forward

By John Solomon and Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 8, 2007

When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from Sept. 11, 2001. But it did not take them long to compile an extensive dossier of damaging information about the would-be Cabinet officer.

They learned about questionable financial deals, an ethics violation, allegations of mismanagement and a top deputy prosecuted for corruption. Most disturbing, according to people close to the process, was Kerik's friendship with a businessman who was linked to organized crime. The businessman had told federal authorities that Kerik received gifts, including $165,000 in apartment renovations, from a New Jersey family with alleged Mafia ties.

Alarmed about the raft of allegations, several White House aides tried to raise red flags. But the normal investigation process was short-circuited, the sources said. Bush's top lawyer, Alberto R. Gonzales, took charge of the vetting, repeatedly grilling Kerik about the issues that had been raised. In the end, despite the concerns, the White House moved forward with his nomination -- only to have it collapse a week later...

Federal prosecutors have told Kerik that they are likely to charge him with several felonies, including providing false information to the government when Bush nominated him, sources have told The Washington Post...

The White House explanation has shifted significantly. Just after Kerik withdrew, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that "we have no reason to believe" he lied and that it "would be an inaccurate impression" to say the vetting was rushed. Now current and former White House officials assert that Kerik lied "bald-faced," as one put it, and say they erred by speeding up the nomination.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/07/AR2007040701398_pf.html

Don't join Newt in calling for Gonzales's resignation just yet, Bum...

You want to wait until all the facts are in.

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White House officials assert that Kerik lied "bald-faced," as one put it, and say they erred by speeding up the nomination.

Those White house officials and their crazy CT theories...

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This is a witch hunt.

Recommending someone who accepted $165,000 in services from the Mafia to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security isn't a crime. 

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This is a witch hunt.

Recommending someone who accepted $165,000 in services from the Mafia to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security isn't a crime. 

Anyone who questions those mafia connections is a traitor and should be imprisoned. 

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Anyone who questions those mafia connections is a traitor and should be imprisoned. 

Am I a bad person for wondering why an Italian-American mayor of New York City was discovered to have been promoting the careers of people with links to organized crime when his African-American and Jewish-American predecessors were not?

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Am I a bad person for wondering why an Italian-American mayor of New York City was discovered to have been promoting the careers of people with links to organized crime when his African-American and Jewish-American predecessors were not?

You're a bad person if you don't support the mafia.

The White House overlooked the mob connection, therefore condoning these activities.  If the top cop in the nation can have mob connections and get the job, there's nothing wrong with it.

If you don't support the mafia, you're not a good American.  In fact, you are a disgrace.  A traitor.  You should be hung.  And shot.  And tortured.

Yes, if you don't support the mafia you should be tortured.  Beach Cum, do you support the mob, or do you hate America?