Missteps Cited in Kerik Vetting by White House
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President Bush's enthusiasm for Bernard B. Kerik, and a lack of candor from Mr. Kerik himself, were among the factors that led to the collapse of the Kerik nomination.
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Bernard Kerik said questions have arisen about the immigration status of a housekeeper and nanny he employed.
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Bernard Kerik, who withdrew his nomination for homeland security secretary amid revelations of his involvement in several scandals, did not fill out a background form when he was appointed police commissioner in 2000, city officials said Thursday.
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New York - Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a potential White House candidate in 2008, has had his copybook blotted by a scandal surrounding President George Bush&#39;s nominee for Homeland Security chief.
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CBS News on Monday said it had been misled over the authenticity of documents it aired in a story challenging President Bush's military service and it was mounting an internal investigation.
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DALLAS -- The more you hear about Bernard Kerik&#39;s messy personal life, the more you begin to think the former New York Police commissioner should be cordoned off with little orange cones.
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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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NEW YORK Dec 13, 2004 - Bernard Kerik&#39;s nanny problem might have proved the least of his troubles if he had pressed ahead with his bid to become homeland security secretary.
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WASHINGTON - Documentation experts are raising questions about the authenticity of memos unearthed earlier this week that claim US President George W Bush shirked his National Guard duties more than 30 years ago.
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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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Bernard Kerik, who withdrew his nomination for homeland security secretary after disclosing that he had not paid all required taxes for a nanny, did not fill out a background form when he was appointed police commissioner in 2000, city officials said.
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A day after CBS News presented documents questioning President Bush&#39;s National Guard service, the veracity of those papers is coming into question.
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Those who failed to adequately check the background of Bernard B. Kerik, President Bush&#39;s short-lived nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, failed the president, the public and the nation&#39;s security.
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President Bush said Monday it was &quot;disgraceful&quot; that the news media had disclosed a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorist suspects. The White House accused The New York Times of breaking a long tradition of keeping wartime secrets.
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The White House can argue all it wants that it properly scrutinized Bernard Kerik before President Bush nominated him for homeland-security secretary, but the facts demonstrate that those arguments are hollow.
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So much for Bernard Kerik as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. In a terse e-mail late Friday night, the White House announced Kerik&#39;s withdrawal because of &quot;personal reasons.
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CBS News on Monday said it had been misled over the authenticity of documents it aired in a story challenging President Bush&#39;s military service and it was mounting an internal investigation.