Starting Premise: The WH Knew ALL About Kerik

Thanks to Supersnoop John Ashcroft and his Patriot Act, the White House can peek and pry into anyone’s life. And if you have a high-profile life, your dossier is thick as a file of born-again adulterers and molesters. Plus, thanks to Echelon, a little global surveillance program, Big Bro can listen in on anyone’s telephone conversations and monitor anyone’s e-mail. Plus-plus, the WH has the Carlyle Group at its beck and call and the Carlyle Group’s tentacles reach into all politics, all military programs and arms manufacturers and all corporations in the world. Plus-plus-plus the US has a satellite that can pinpoint anyone anywhere, even if he’s pedaling a bike in the wilds of Wyoming. And now the WH is saying it didn’t know their very own Rambo-Baghdad-Terminator stank like three-day-old fish? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK! If Newsweek was able to find out (and it was) that a judge issued an arrest warrant on Bernie Kerik in 1998 because of lawsuits on unpaid condo bills, the White House knew about it six months ago. If Kerik had an illegal alien for a nanny and didn’t pay required nanny taxes, the White House knew and kept mum. If Kerik had questionable income and monies from questionable sources, the White House knew and sat on the info. The question is not what did the WH know and when did they know it. The question is: Knowing what they knew, why did they name Bernard Kerik for the high-powered Homeland Security boss position? Here's my reading of the Kerik chronicle. The appointment accomplished so many goals that it was a master stroke. Kerik had done favors for the BushMen and he thought he was owed a big payback. He submitted his claimcheck. Giuliani had done favors for the BushMen and thought he was owed a big payback, not the least of which was a run for the White House in 2008 as the anointed Heir-of-9/11-Profiteers. Giuliani and Kerik were a matched set. Get one you get the other, for better or worse. How could the White House be shut of both these major annoyances in one swipe of the sword? Promote Kerik, nominate Kerik and watch the opposition destroy both Kerik and Giuliani in a swift and deadly coup de grace. And the fringe benefit, the icing on the cake is that whoever is appointed now will get a fast confirmation. First, because he is NOT KERIK. And second, because every day without a Homeland Security Chief is a day the land is in jeopardy--which is baloney, but the White House will float the lie anyway. If the above scenario is true, watch the Machiavellian Maestros do it again. It works.