More lovely news about Bernard Kerik, erstwhile nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security.
After the cleanup had settled into a routine that fall, the executive said, Mr. Kerik, who was still police commissioner, asked to rent the two-bedroom apartment for his own use. During his use of the apartment, Mr. Kerik and Judith Regan engaged in an extramarital affair there, according to someone who spoke to Mr. Kerik about the relationship. Ms. Regan published his best-selling autobiography in 2001.
Still, it's clearly not the White House's fault. How were they supposed to know anything at all about this guy? And we should also not be concerned that it was the responsibility of the nominee for Attorney General, the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country, to find this stuff out during his interrogation of Kerik. That man, Alberto Gonzalez, oddly enough has no comment.
Yawn... impeach the bastards... sigh.
More on the "missteps" by the White House by the always impartial Elizabeth Bumiller in the Times.
See? It's not their fault! They're "normally careful," and Bush was just really jazzed, and wanted to fill this critical security job so as not to leave the American people unprotected. It was really just that the guy was a liar. I mean, really, beyond asking him about his background and assuming he was telling the truth, what more could they do?
For the sake of the country, it's best if we all just move on.
