{"id":1329,"date":"2004-12-14T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/not_unhelpful\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T22:07:55","slug":"not_unhelpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/not_unhelpful\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Unhelpful"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Kerik nomination gone bust would be really<\/i> funny, except that it reminds us of the incompetents running the executive branch. Many in the media have been pointing out Kerik’s, uh, problems. But here’s an angle<\/a> on the nomination that hasn’t undergone much scrutiny:<\/p>\n

[Michael] ISIKOFF: And my colleague Mark Hosenball uncovered that arrest warrant sitting at his computer working for a few minutes. But one question on the loyalty issue. It’s certainly true that Kerik and Rudy Giuliani worked together when Rudy was mayor and Kerik was the police commissioner and that they’re close personal friends. But it’s also worth remembering that they’re also business partners, have been business partners for the last few years. And that–you know, that’s a factor in considering why Giuliani pushed so hard to get Kerik the job.
\nMATTHEWS: You mean having him on the inside might have meant some contracts flowing in his direction?
\nISIKOFF: Well, we certainly do know enough about Giuliani & Associates to know that they make their business in the security world and offering security assessments and security advice to governments and private contractors.
\nSo I’m sure, if you’re in that line of work, having your business partner as the secretary of homeland security is not unhelpful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh. “Not unhelpful.” That’s quite the understatement. The financial fallout also explains why Senators Schumer and Clinton hopped aboard the Kerik wagon; they saw money in it for New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Kerik nomination gone bust would be really funny, except that it reminds us of the incompetents running the executive branch. Many in the media have been pointing out Kerik’s, uh, problems. But here’s an angle on the nomination that hasn’t undergone much scrutiny: [Michael] ISIKOFF: And my colleague Mark Hosenball uncovered that arrest warrant […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}