Give Kerik green light on security bureaucracy
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Tom Ridge tried to piece together 22 federal agencies and 180,000 employees into the Department of Homeland Security. The result is as lumbering as Frankenstein&#39;s monster, yet bringing the agency to life at all was impressive.
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The selection of Bernard B. Kerik as the new secretary of homeland security may signal sweeping changes at a sprawling new department still struggling to find its place.
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House members want answers from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to a number of questions, from how his department manages multibillion-dollar contracts to how it assesses risk and divvies up scarce funds.
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This image released by the White House on Friday, Dec. 10, 2004, shows Bernard Kerik&#39;s letter to President Bush asking to withdraw as nominee for secretary of the Homeland Security Department.
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Administration and Congressional officials said Friday that President Bush&#39;s selection of Bernard B. Kerik as the new secretary of homeland security
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NEW YORK A new report is raising more questions about Bernard Kerik, two days after he withdrew his nomination to head the Homeland Security department.
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Bernard Kerik&#39;s withdrawal from his nomination as Homeland Security director raises many questions for which answers may be elusive.
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Federal prosecutors are planning to unveil an indictment against former New York City police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik as early as week's end, spotlighting alleged corruption that occurred a decade ago when he worked was a trusted adviser to former New York mayor -- and now presidential...
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President Bush Friday formally named former New York Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik as his pick for secretary of Homeland Security.
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President Bush announced today the nomination of Bernie Kerik to succeed Tom Ridge as homeland security secretary. The former New York City police commissioner
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This article was reported and written by Kevin Flynn, Christopher Drew and William K. Rashbaum. Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik looked out at the commanders assembled in his office.
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WASHINGTON: Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who helped rally the cityâs police force and citizens following the September 11 terror attacks, is President George W Bushâs pick to run the Homeland Security Department.
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Bernard Kerik&#39;s nomination to run the Homeland Security Department shows President Bush wants the no-nonsense former police chief to settle turf wars in the sprawling
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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, left, speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 after President Bush announced Kerik as his choice to replace Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge.
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One secret after another has tumbled out since the collapse of Bernard B. Kerik&#39;s nomination as homeland security secretary - an undisclosed marriage, clandestine love affairs, unsavory business ties and unreported gifts.
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In calculating his odds of getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik&#39;s reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in
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President Bush on Friday nominated Bernard Kerik to lead the Department of Homeland Security, his latest move to restock his Cabinet for the second term.