Alberto Gonzales - incompetent/screwed up Kerik background check

[DesEtoiles]

Alberto Gonzales' office missed the nanny thing and the warrant that Newsweek found in two days.

[skylarmae]

1. missed? or just didn't acknowledge?

One incompetence after another. This one misses this. That one misses that. No weapons of mass destruction. Democrats will take away your bibles and on and on and on and on....

[bklyncowgirl]

2. They knew about it. They got caught. Time to dump Bernie.

These guys are used to getting away with things. For once the media did its job and they had to back down.

Good for Newsweek.

[ElectroPrincess]

3. It required courage ...

remember no good deed goes unpunished by the * WH. Look at how NOVAK's reporting is going to land OTHER reporters in jail. Talk about a perfect storm, i.e., republican authoritarianism.

[colonel odis]

4. the newsweek reporter who uncovered that is probably in for a rough ride.

stay off small planes. and if i ever see him on a large plane, i won't be getting on said plane.

[UTUSN]

5. He's Another Train Wreck Waiting to Happen

The Shrubbites have sold themselves to gullible Dittoheads on TWO main points: 1) That only they can make us secure, 2) that 9-11 confers automatic "heroism" (FREE PASS for anything) on anybody connected with it.

KERIK embodied, just as much as Shrub and GUILIANI, both of these pillars and just happened to collapse more obviously because of being unable to get out from underneath his baggage. The two pillars are made of sand.

What was "heroic" about Shrub-GUILIANI-KERIK at 9-11? They just happened to be in power when it happened. If anything, they should have reaped "finger-pointing". KERIK was stepping out of the shower when the planes hit and joined GUILIANI walking up some streets coated in powder. Shrub showed up days later with his cheerleading megaphone atop a pile of bodies, after days when the people were stunned by the absence of leadership. So much for "heroism".

But the Shrubbites have managed to doublespeak 9-11 into permission and adulation for anything, meaning their arrogance in acting like they can do anything they want. Leading to their sloppiness (arrogance) in screwing up the vetting on KERIK, which, by the way, was the poor performance of Alberto GONZALEZ's shop, another screw-up waiting to happen (GONZALEZ, that is).

This brings us back to "security". The Shrubbites can't VET for the same reason they can't manage "security": Because they only hear what they WANT to hear.