White House may have complied with Grand Jury in Kerik Case! Released Info!

Lies to White House Officials Key to Kerik Case
By Paul Kiel - November 12, 2007, 4:09PM

A significant portion of the federal criminal case against former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik involves alleged lies Kerik told White House officials in both written and oral statements when he was seeking positions in the Bush Administration.

So far, there have been no reports of the White House receiving, let alone complying with, grand jury subpoenas in the Kerik case. However, a review of the indictment suggests that the White House may have turned over a number of records to federal investigators in addition to perhaps making current and/or former officials available for interviews with federal investigators and possibly for testimony to a grand jury.

How extensive was the White House's cooperation with the federal criminal investigation of Kerik? Will we see White House officials testifying at trial about their conversations with Kerik?

The indictment lays out a number of alleged lies told by Kerik to White House officials. False statements comprise seven counts of the sixteen-count indictment, including statements Kerik made to three unnamed White House officials, identified in the indictment as White House Official A, B and C, respectively.

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NOW ....Read the first Comments at TPM's SITE in Reply to this story.........Aghhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Comments (6)
E. J. wrote on November 12, 2007 4:21 PM:

Ummmm...

What jumps off the page here:

They can find no reason to share any info on the dismantling of the U.S. Constitution, but let some moron fib to their faces...hoo boy, they're gonna take that sucker DOWN! And give it ALL up!

Disgusting.
jeffgee wrote on November 12, 2007 4:57 PM:
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Does the WH want to torpedo Giuliani's campaign? He seems to be the most likely to carry out Bush/Cheney's neocon fantasies. But maybe Bush wants Hillary to be the next president so the GOP can again blame a Clinton for the future fallout from Bush's failed adventures.
konger wrote on November 12, 2007 5:21 PM:
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Wow, they're starting to eat their own!
Alguien wrote on November 12, 2007 5:32 PM:
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jeffgee wrote on November 12, 2007 4:57 PM:
Does the WH want to torpedo Giuliani's campaign? He seems to be the most likely to carry out Bush/Cheney's neocon fantasies. But maybe Bush wants Hillary to be the next president so the GOP can again blame a Clinton for the future fallout from Bush's failed adventures.
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Either that or they believe it would be better to let it all out early in the campaign, and hope/pray that nobody will remember any of this by next year.
I guess it makes sense, considering the proverbial short attention span of the American public and the post-Holiday hangover most of us will be under after the latest news on the U.S economy...!]
cynicalgirl wrote on November 12, 2007 5:43 PM:

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So do we know if the nanny existed? An article in the NY Times led us to believe that there was no nanny, but the indictment seems to think she existed. He could use her non-existence as a defense, but he'd have to admit that he lied when he withdrew his name.
JasonZ wrote on November 12, 2007 6:19 PM:

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Will Rudy's buddy Mukasey make sure justice is served? I doubt it.

STOP blackmailing Rudy!

can you imagine the dirt he has on him?

remember, he was Rudy's DRIVER.

how many assignations did he take him to.

god knows what other dirty dealings he was in on.

how else does one explain the meteroic career rise of a psychotic weasel with no college degree (I only mention that because he was legally ineligible for at least one, maybe more, of the jobs Rudy gave him). why anyone took his nomination as Ridge's replacement is beyond me; he's the caricature of a thuggish, ignorant, ballbusting cop. I guess it just goes to show you how far we've sunk, how credulous/complicit we've come.

makes sense, though....a halfwit like B*** gets in office, then somehow gets "re-elected." why not a cretin like Kerik to defend our fatherland?

I never even thought about that.

But then again, I rarely think anymore.

you know that when a political question seems unanswerable, it usually boils down to 'follow the money.'

but Rudy didn't have all that much money when Kerik had a chance to be around for some very sleazy stuff, so the only alternative was for Rudy to help him along in his career, during which Kerik apparently was quite adept at lining his pockets/feathering his nest, etc.

as time passed, I imagine Kerik was in on lots more dirtywork, and things may just sort've spiralled from there, at which point there was no way for Rudy to cut him loose. Remember, he made him one of Giuliani Partners. He didn't have to do that....or did he? And WHY ON EARTH did he vet him for head of Homeland Security?

The only two reasons for the WH to do what they've done is the blackmail angle, or that they're really PO'd at being played so badly by Rudy. Dunno what Jeb's influence is on this, but I can't imagine the WH is any different than the majority of Republicofascist stringpullers, who all seem to be lining up behind America's mayor.

it remains to be seen what happens during the trial, which I think will be delayed til long after the election, at which point he'll be pardoned by Bush (before trial, perhaps, ala his father and the Iran/Contra Six), or by....UGHHHH!!!!!!.....President Giuliani, using Kerik's 911 heroism as a pretext. Either way, Kerik walks, because he's got plenty of dirt on both Rudy and the B*** junta (wouldn't you LOVE to hear what he has to say about his aborted employment in Iraq, under that crook Bremer?)

that said, I'm anticipating this more than I was the Libby trial, which turned out to be the biggest fiasco since Election Theft 2000.