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14 December 2004

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Bernard B. Kerik
Senior Vice President
Mr. Kerik is a Senior Vice President at Giuliani Partners and is Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani-Kerik LLC, an affiliate of Giuliani Partners. Mr. Kerik most recently served as Iraq’s interim Minister of Interior and as the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy to Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority.
Mr. Kerik served as the 40th Police Commissioner of the City of New York. During his sixteen month tenure, Mr. Kerik's leadership resulted in dramatic reductions in crime through innovative and creative management. Mr. Kerik was also a principal member of the Mayor’s cabinet overseeing the rescue, recovery and investigation of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. He also served as the First Deputy and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction.
Mr. Kerik began his professional career in the U.S. Army’s Military Police Corps serving in Korea. Mr. Kerik was also assigned to the 18th Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and he later spent nearly four years working on various security assignments in the Middle East. He went on to serve as the Commander of Special Weapons and Operations and Warden of the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey before launching a career with the NYPD.
Mr. Kerik holds a B.S. in Public Administration from Empire State College (SUNY). He presently serves as a member of the Academe and Policy Research Senior Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Criminal Justice Advisory Council of St. John’s University in New York City.

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Philosophy
Giuliani Partners LLC is dedicated to helping leaders solve critical strategic issues, accelerate growth, and enhance the reputation and brand of their organizations in the context of strongly held values. Giuliani Partners' professional guidance to leaders is based on six fundamental principles:
Integrity -- Integrity requires carefully developing and upholding a set of inviolable beliefs. People of integrity are not inflexible, but their decisions are made in the context of strongly held values. Principled leaders must not only set a moral compass, but also effectively communicate a code of conduct to those they lead. They are obligated to remain faithful to their core convictions in order to demand and inspire the same in others.
Optimism -- Optimism in leadership is envisioning the best possible outcome for a situation and convincing the people around you to put forth their best effort in obtaining that outcome. The effectiveness of optimism plays on the human inclination to work toward an achievable goal. People believe in leaders who have strong convictions and confidence. The optimism of a leader directly contributes to an organization’s ability to succeed. Optimism, coupled with steadfast resolve, conveys a culture of confidence and helps organizations move successfully toward a common goal.
Courage -- Whether on a daily basis or in times of crisis, organizations look to their leaders for courage in the face of adversity. Courage is the strength to act on strong beliefs, whatever the risk. When leaders remain steadfast in their adherence to principles, regardless of professional jeopardy, they generate confidence, loyalty and respect from their peers, employees, and clients. In today’s business climate, executives must have the courage to enact corporate governance initiatives that curtail excess and uphold the interests of customers, shareholders and employees. Without bold leadership, companies suffer from a lack of effective management, stakeholder trust, and ultimately, profitability.
Preparedness -- Being prepared requires constant vigilance and foresight. Preparedness applies not only to the effective execution of operations, but also to the assurance that operations continue smoothly through any type of event. Organizations face an ever-changing series of threats to their future. That is why it is essential to identify existing threats quickly and review the processes and procedures in place to combat those threats. Careful preparation for every event that can be anticipated enhances preparation for the unanticipated.
The public and private sectors face a multitude of risks and challenges stemming from terrorism, crime, natural disasters, market performance, and countless other factors that threaten an organization’s ability to survive. Governments are already taking steps to protect civilians and businesses from the effects of a variety of threats. The private sector can do more to prepare to secure its personnel, assets, and future. Relentless preparation develops a culture of responsibility and awareness.
Communication -- Effective management of any organization requires clear goals and internal communication, both vertically and horizontally, in collective pursuit of those goals. In order to make well-informed decisions, a leader should delegate and understand the roles of each segment of his or her organization. Through relentless preparation and reliable, frequent communication, a leader can achieve this level of comprehension, which will aid in coordinating the efforts of his or her team. Access and modesty in a leader improve worker morale and provide incentives for employees to work toward a clear and common goal.
Accountability -- Accountability means measuring results throughout an organization and holding people responsible for their performance. The ability to measure performance accurately is critical to any organization looking to improve efficiency and ensure success. A system of measurement motivates employees and decision-makers alike. Accountability enables leaders to identify problems more effectively and make solutions pervasive throughout an organization.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., center, attends Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York Saturday, March 17, 2001. Seated near Clinton are Brian O'Dwyer, left, son of the late New York senator Paul O'Dwyer, New York Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue, second left, New York City Police Commisioner Bernard Kerik, foreground, and New York City Public Advocate Mark Green, right. (AP Photo/Shawn Bladwin)
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Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, talks at a news conference in New York Tuesday, May 29, 2001 following the conviction of four defendants in the August 1998, bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Barry Mawn, left, is the assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office. Bernard Kerik, second from right, is the police commissioner of New York City. The others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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New York Gov. George Pataki, left, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, center rear, and Barry Mawn, head of the the New York office of the FBI, rear right, stand behind New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as Giuliani holds up a photo of an airliner flight recorder, known as a "black box," as he appeals to the public in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, for help in locating the devices carried on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on Tuesday. (AP Photo/David Karp)
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New York Mayor Giuliani, second from right, and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, watch as a fireman carries an American flag to the highest point he could find during a press tour of the site of World Trade Center towers, the area known as Ground Zero, in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. Other people in photo are unidentified. (AP Photo/Bridget Besaw Gorman, Pool)

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The emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, left, shakes hands with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, as New York Police Commisioner Bernard Kerik, right, looks on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2001, at World Trade Center disaster command center in New York. His Highness made a donation of $1 million to the Twin Towers fund and $1 million to the Widows and Childrens fund for the New York FIre Department. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, Pool)
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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, right, is joined by Bernard Kerik, left, his police commissioner, and Thomas Von Essen, his fire commissioner, before his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Monday Oct. 1, 2001. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

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A large group consisting of bagpipe bands, uniformed services and rescue workers gather near the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York for a prayer service honoring the rescue workers at the scene, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001. Also in attendance was Mayor Rudy Guiliani, Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
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New York Mayro Rudy Giuliani, second from left, listens as New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik speaks during the mayor's daily briefing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001, at City Hall in New York answering reporters' questions about investigations into anthrax cases in the city. From left are Dr. Steve Ostroff of the Centers for Disease Control, Giuliani, New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Neal Cohen and Kerik. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Britain's Prince Andrew, second left, speaks with a smiling New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center right, on the steps of City Hall after a press conference Monday, Oct. 15, 2001, at which the prince announced Giuliani received an honorary knighthood Monday from Queen Elizabeth II for his "outstanding help and support to the bereaved British families in New York." Giuliani, who was named Knight Commander of Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, does not get the right to call himself "Sir Rudolph," but he can put the initials "K.B.E." after his name. Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, left and Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, right, listen in on the conversation. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, left, joins New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik overlooking the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack Monday, Oct. 15, 2001. (AP Photo/NYC Mayor's Photo Unit, Joseph Reyes)

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Bound for Game Six of the World Series in Phoenix, Ariz., New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, left, jokes with Mrs. Gerard Barbara, center and her daughter Karen, celebrating her 26th birthday, before boarding a plane with them and about two dozen other relatives of rescue workers who died in the World Trade Center attacks, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2001, at New York's LaGuardia Airport. New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is shown, center, and a Continental Airlines representative is upper right. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
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New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, New York Gov. George Pataki, center, and New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik arrive at a news conference outside the Ramada Plaza Hotel after American Airlines Flight 587 headed for the Dominican Republic crashed minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday, Nov. 12, 2001 in New York. Families of the victims are receiving news about the crash at the airport hotel. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

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New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, center, is flanked by Mayor's Office of Emergency Management Director Richard Scheirer, left, and New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, before dedicating a public viewing platform overlooking the site of the World Trade Center attacks, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, embraces Chief of Staff Anthony Carbonetti as Richard Sheirer, Director of the Office of Emergency Management, Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, look on after delivering his farwell speech to members of his staff and invited guests, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001, at St. Paul's Chapel in New York. One block east of ground zero, Giuliani said goodbye Thursday to the city where he battled crime, his critics and the Sept.11 crisis during eight years in City Hall. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)

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New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik speaks at a news conference, Friday, Nov. 9, 2001, while announcing that he declined New York City Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg's offer to continue on as police commissioner after his tenure under the Giuliani administration expires in January, 2001. Kerik said he plans to spend more time with his family while considering job offers in corporate security and other fields. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani holds a crystal paper weigh in his new office Monday, Jan. 14, 2002, in New York. Giuliani Partners was formed as a strategic partnership with the large accounting firm Ernst & Young. The firm's clients will be hiring many of the same personnel who helped New York City emerge from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that toppled the World Trade Center. Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and former Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen are just two of nearly a dozen ex-city officials who have chosen to join their boss in the corporate world. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)

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Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, second from right, poses with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, second from left, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, and former New York Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen at the prime minster's residence in London Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002. Queen Elizabeth II made Giuliani an honorary knight Wednesday, for his steadfastness after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Von Essen and Kerik became honorary Commanders of the British Empire. (AP Photo/Adam Butler/POOL)
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New York Governor George Pataki, center, points, while former New York City Police Commisioner Bernard Kerik, left, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani look on, during a ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center at ground zero in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, Pool)

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Port Authority Police officer David Lim, New York Police Dept. officer William Fisher, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, left to right, participate in NYSE openign bell ceremonies Tuesday Sept. 17. 2002. The ceremony marked the one-year anniversary of the day the Big Board resumed trading after the attacks on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Mexico City police commissioner Marcelo Ebrard, left, walk through the streets of the capital Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003. Mexican business leaders are paying $4.3 million to have Giuliani and his consulting firm help clean up Mexico City police and crack down on violence and kidnappings. Tuesday's surprise, two-day visit was Giuliani's first to the city. Also seen at far right is former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

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U.S. civil administrator to Iraq L Paul Bremer, center left, stands with Iraqi jail administrator Col. Nadim, center right, de facto Chief of Police in Iraq Col. Spain, right and new advisor for the ministry of the Interior Bernard Kerik at a ceremonial ribbon cutting for a recently refurbished jail in Baghdad Wednesday May 21, 2003. ( AP Photo/POOL Kieran Doherty )
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Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, hired by the Pentagon to advise Iraq's interior ministry, checks incoming traffic as he leaves after a press conference in Baghdad, Monday, May 26, 2003. Kerik spoke of the formidable task to rebuild, train and vet a new Baghdad police force, but said the situation was not as bad as he thought before his arrival a week ago. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

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Bernard Kerik, right, former New York City police commissioner and now senior police advisor to the Interior Ministry, arrives with new Iraqi Police Brig. Gen. Ahmad Ibrahim, for a joint news conference Tuesday July 8, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq where Kerik announced a US$2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone who kills a coalition soldier or Iraqi police officer. The reward was an effort to stem a spiraling insurgency that has plagued coalition efforts to bring security and basic services to Iraq. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Bernard Kerik, former New York City police chief, left, and Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of coalition ground forces in Iraq, leave the hall after a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 4, 2003. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

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Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik walks with security after a weekly news conference Monday, July 21, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. Kerik, who is overseeing efforts to create a new Iraqi police force, appealed to the Iraqi people Monday to provide intelligence on insurgents and others keeping Baghdad streets simmering with instability.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik surrounded by his South African bodyguards, leaves for the office from his hotel, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday July 28, 2003. Kerik heads the Baghdad police force and was was dubbed the "Baghdad Terminator" after he summarily dismissed a newly reinstated Iraqi official who turned out to be a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. He has determined to makeIraq police as one of the best forces. Second left, is Kerik's military aide, Army Reserve Capt. EdwardBahdi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik shows his photograph doing martial arts in a book written by him during an interview with Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday July 27, 2003. Kerik heads the Baghdad police force and was was dubbed the "Baghdad Terminator" after he summarily dismissed a newly reinstated Iraqi official who turned out to be a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. He has determined to make Iraq police as one of the best forces. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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An Iraqi police officer arrests an unidentified youth for carrying a gun in his car at checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday July 31, 2003. The United States is training police, and there are now about 17,000 officers, plus at least 1,000 traffic police, 1,000 customs inspectors and 1,000 guards at facilities, said Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner in charge of rebuilding Iraq's internal security. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner, second from right, walks with his security as he inspects the United Nations headquarters after a bomb attack, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. Kerik, as well as U.S. investigators suspect the bombing of the U.N. was an inside job and are questioning Iraqi employees and guards, many of whom were linked to Saddam Hussein's security service, a top American official said Friday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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President Bush walks with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, Friday, Oct. 3, 2003, on the South Lawn of the White House, as he departed for a trip to Wisconsin. Kerik helped set up the new Iraqi police force. Bush and Kerik made remarks about Iraq before leaving. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

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Former Mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani and former NYC Police Chief Bernard Kerik talking to the media at a news confrence at the Trinidad Hilton after Giuliani gave the feature address at a leadership perspective for difficult times on Saturday Nov. 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Shirley Bahadur)
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John Taylor, associate commissioner of regulatory affairs for the Food and Drug Administration, left, shows some mail-order drugs from overseas to Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, center, and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, right, during a tour of the JFK airport international mail branch in New York, Wednesday, March 17, 2004. The issue of prescription drug imports has split Minnesota's two leading Republicans, with Gov. Tim Pawlenty setting up a state website that directs people to Canadian pharmacies and Sen. Coleman raising questions about safety. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)

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Bernard Kerik, left, fomer NYPD Commissioner, Thomas Von Essen, center, former FDNY Commissioner, and Richard Sheirer, former director of the New York Office of Emergency Management, are sworn in before the Sept. 11 commission hearings in New York, Tuesday May 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik talk to reporters at the Piarco International Airport, Trinidad, Friday, Nov. 7 , 2003. Kerik is in Trinidad with Giuliani to talk to officials about crime fighting efforts. (AP PHOTO/SHIRLEY BAHADUR)

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Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik speaks about the Patriot Act during a Republican-sponsored conference Thursday, June 3, 2004, in Olympia, Wash. The presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry staged dueling events at the state Capitol on Thursday, sparring over the federal Patriot Act and the administration's record on veterans. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Toni L. Bailey)
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Republican National Committee members Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and Charlotte N.C. Mayor Pat McCrory, left to right, look at a video of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry at the war room of the RNC headquarters near the FleetCenter in Boston, Wednesday, July 28, 20004, site of the Democratic National Convention. The RNC plans to publicly unveil an 11-minute video Wednesday that traces how Kerry struggled with the issue of Iraq through 2003 and early 2004 as he competed and finally won the Democratic presidential nomination. The video will be sent e-mail to about 8 million supporters. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Bernard Kerik, left, former Police Commissioner of New York City, raises the arm of President Bush, right, as he introduces him at a campaign rally Monday, Oct. 18, 2004 in Marlton, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, left, and former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik add flowers to the reflecting pool at the base of the former twin towers of the World Trade Center on the third anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Sept. 11, 2004. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, Pool)

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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. Ridge submitted his resignation in writing to Bush on Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
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This image released by the White House on Friday, Dec. 10, 2004, shows Bernard Kerik's letter to President Bush asking to withdraw as nominee for secretary of the Homeland Security Department. (AP Photo/White House)

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President Bush, right, with honorees former C.I.A. chief George Tenet, left, retired General Tommy Franks, second left, and former Iraq administrator, Paul Bremmer, second right, makes remarks during the the presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards, the nation's highest civilian honor, in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
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Artist Chris Savido talks about his painting "Bush Monkeys", an acrylic on canvas portrait of President Bush made of monkeys, at an East Village gallery in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004. The painting caused so much controversy at an art show at the Chelsea Market that the president of the market had the show shut down. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., center, attends Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York Saturday, March 17, 2001. Seated near Clinton are Brian O'Dwyer, left, son of the late New York senator Paul O'Dwyer, New York Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue, second left, New York City Police Commisioner Bernard Kerik, foreground, and New York City Public Advocate Mark Green, right. (AP Photo/Shawn Bladwin)	Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, talks at a news conference in New York Tuesday, May 29, 2001 following the conviction of four defendants in the August 1998, bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Barry Mawn, left, is the assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office. Bernard Kerik, second from right, is the police commissioner of New York City. The others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
New York Gov. George Pataki, left, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, center rear, and Barry Mawn, head of the the New York office of the FBI, rear right, stand behind New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as Giuliani holds up a photo of an airliner flight recorder, known as a "black box," as he appeals to the public in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, for help in locating the devices carried on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on Tuesday. (AP Photo/David Karp)	New York Mayor Giuliani, second from right, and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, watch as a fireman carries an American flag to the highest point he could find during a press tour of the site of World Trade Center towers, the area known as Ground Zero, in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. Other people in photo are unidentified. (AP Photo/Bridget Besaw Gorman, Pool)
The emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, left, shakes hands with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, as New York Police Commisioner Bernard Kerik, right, looks on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2001, at World Trade Center disaster command center in New York. His Highness made a donation of $1 million to the Twin Towers fund and $1 million to the Widows and Childrens fund for the New York FIre Department. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, Pool)	New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, right, is joined by Bernard Kerik, left, his police commissioner, and Thomas Von Essen, his fire commissioner, before his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Monday Oct. 1, 2001. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
A large group consisting of bagpipe bands, uniformed services and rescue workers gather near the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York for a prayer service honoring the rescue workers at the scene, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001. Also in attendance was Mayor Rudy Guiliani, Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)	New York Mayro Rudy Giuliani, second from left, listens as New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik speaks during the mayor's daily briefing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001, at City Hall in New York answering reporters' questions about investigations into anthrax cases in the city. From left are Dr. Steve Ostroff of the Centers for Disease Control, Giuliani, New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Neal Cohen and Kerik. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Britain's Prince Andrew, second left, speaks with a smiling New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center right, on the steps of City Hall after a press conference Monday, Oct. 15, 2001, at which the prince announced Giuliani received an honorary knighthood Monday from Queen Elizabeth II for his "outstanding help and support to the bereaved British families in New York." Giuliani, who was named Knight Commander of Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, does not get the right to call himself "Sir Rudolph," but he can put the initials "K.B.E." after his name. Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, left and Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, right, listen in on the conversation. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)	Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, left, joins New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik overlooking the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack Monday, Oct. 15, 2001. (AP Photo/NYC Mayor's Photo Unit, Joseph Reyes)
Bound for Game Six of the World Series in Phoenix, Ariz., New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, left, jokes with Mrs. Gerard Barbara, center and her daughter Karen, celebrating her 26th birthday, before boarding a plane with them and about two dozen other relatives of rescue workers who died in the World Trade Center attacks, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2001, at New York's LaGuardia Airport. New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is shown, center, and a Continental Airlines representative is upper right. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)	New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, New York Gov. George Pataki, center, and New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik arrive at a news conference outside the Ramada Plaza Hotel after American Airlines Flight 587 headed for the Dominican Republic crashed minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday, Nov. 12, 2001 in New York. Families of the victims are receiving news about the crash at the airport hotel. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, center, is flanked by Mayor's Office of Emergency Management Director Richard Scheirer, left, and New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, before dedicating a public viewing platform overlooking the site of the World Trade Center attacks, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)	New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, embraces Chief of Staff Anthony Carbonetti as Richard Sheirer, Director of the Office of Emergency Management, Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, look on after delivering his farwell speech to members of his staff and invited guests, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001, at St. Paul's Chapel in New York. One block east of ground zero, Giuliani said goodbye Thursday to the city where he battled crime, his critics and the Sept.11 crisis during eight years in City Hall. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)
New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik speaks at a news conference, Friday, Nov. 9, 2001, while announcing that he declined New York City Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg's offer to continue on as police commissioner after his tenure under the Giuliani administration expires in January, 2001. Kerik said he plans to spend more time with his family while considering job offers in corporate security and other fields. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)	Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani holds a crystal paper weigh in his new office Monday, Jan. 14, 2002, in New York. Giuliani Partners was formed as a strategic partnership with the large accounting firm Ernst & Young. The firm's clients will be hiring many of the same personnel who helped New York City emerge from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that toppled the World Trade Center. Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and former Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen are just two of nearly a dozen ex-city officials who have chosen to join their boss in the corporate world. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, second from right, poses with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, second from left, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, and former New York Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen at the prime minster's residence in London Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002. Queen Elizabeth II made Giuliani an honorary knight Wednesday, for his steadfastness after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Von Essen and Kerik became honorary Commanders of the British Empire. (AP Photo/Adam Butler/POOL)	New York Governor George Pataki, center, points, while former New York City Police Commisioner Bernard Kerik, left, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani look on, during a ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center at ground zero in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, Pool)


Port Authority Police officer David Lim, New York Police Dept. officer William Fisher, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, left to right, participate in NYSE openign bell ceremonies Tuesday Sept. 17. 2002. The ceremony marked the one-year anniversary of the day the Big Board resumed trading after the attacks on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)	Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Mexico City police commissioner Marcelo Ebrard, left, walk through the streets of the capital Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003. Mexican business leaders are paying $4.3 million to have Giuliani and his consulting firm help clean up Mexico City police and crack down on violence and kidnappings. Tuesday's surprise, two-day visit was Giuliani's first to the city. Also seen at far right is former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
U.S. civil administrator to Iraq L Paul Bremer, center left, stands with Iraqi jail administrator Col. Nadim, center right, de facto Chief of Police in Iraq Col. Spain, right and new advisor for the ministry of the Interior Bernard Kerik at a ceremonial ribbon cutting for a recently refurbished jail in Baghdad Wednesday May 21, 2003. ( AP Photo/POOL Kieran Doherty )	Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, hired by the Pentagon to advise Iraq's interior ministry, checks incoming traffic as he leaves after a press conference in Baghdad, Monday, May 26, 2003. Kerik spoke of the formidable task to rebuild, train and vet a new Baghdad police force, but said the situation was not as bad as he thought before his arrival a week ago. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
Bernard Kerik, right, former New York City police commissioner and now senior police advisor to the Interior Ministry, arrives with new Iraqi Police Brig. Gen. Ahmad Ibrahim, for a joint news conference Tuesday July 8, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq where Kerik announced a US$2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone who kills a coalition soldier or Iraqi police officer. The reward was an effort to stem a spiraling insurgency that has plagued coalition efforts to bring security and basic services to Iraq. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)	Bernard Kerik, former New York City police chief, left, and Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of coalition ground forces in Iraq, leave the hall after a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 4, 2003. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik walks with security after a weekly news conference Monday, July 21, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. Kerik, who is overseeing efforts to create a new Iraqi police force, appealed to the Iraqi people Monday to provide intelligence on insurgents and others keeping Baghdad streets simmering with instability.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)	Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik surrounded by his South African bodyguards, leaves for the office from his hotel, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday July 28, 2003. Kerik heads the Baghdad police force and was was dubbed the "Baghdad Terminator" after he summarily dismissed a newly reinstated Iraqi official who turned out to be a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. He has determined to makeIraq police as one of the best forces. Second left, is Kerik's military aide, Army Reserve Capt. EdwardBahdi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik shows his photograph doing martial arts in a book written by him during an interview with Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday July 27, 2003. Kerik heads the Baghdad police force and was was dubbed the "Baghdad Terminator" after he summarily dismissed a newly reinstated Iraqi official who turned out to be a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. He has determined to make Iraq police as one of the best forces. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)	An Iraqi police officer arrests an unidentified youth for carrying a gun in his car at checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday July 31, 2003. The United States is training police, and there are now about 17,000 officers, plus at least 1,000 traffic police, 1,000 customs inspectors and 1,000 guards at facilities, said Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner in charge of rebuilding Iraq's internal security. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner, second from right, walks with his security as he inspects the United Nations headquarters after a bomb attack, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. Kerik, as well as U.S. investigators suspect the bombing of the U.N. was an inside job and are questioning Iraqi employees and guards, many of whom were linked to Saddam Hussein's security service, a top American official said Friday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)	President Bush walks with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, right, Friday, Oct. 3, 2003, on the South Lawn of the White House, as he departed for a trip to Wisconsin. Kerik helped set up the new Iraqi police force. Bush and Kerik made remarks about Iraq before leaving. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Former Mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani and former NYC Police Chief Bernard Kerik talking to the media at a news confrence at the Trinidad Hilton after Giuliani gave the feature address at a leadership perspective for difficult times on Saturday Nov. 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Shirley Bahadur)	John Taylor, associate commissioner of regulatory affairs for the Food and Drug Administration, left, shows some mail-order drugs from overseas to Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, center, and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, right, during a tour of the JFK airport international mail branch in New York, Wednesday, March 17, 2004. The issue of prescription drug imports has split Minnesota's two leading Republicans, with Gov. Tim Pawlenty setting up a state website that directs people to Canadian pharmacies and Sen. Coleman raising questions about safety. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
Bernard Kerik, left, fomer NYPD Commissioner, Thomas Von Essen, center, former FDNY Commissioner, and Richard Sheirer, former director of the New York Office of Emergency Management, are sworn in before the Sept. 11 commission hearings in New York, Tuesday May 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)	Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik talk to reporters at the Piarco International Airport, Trinidad, Friday, Nov. 7 , 2003. Kerik is in Trinidad with Giuliani to talk to officials about crime fighting efforts. (AP PHOTO/SHIRLEY BAHADUR)
Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik speaks about the Patriot Act during a Republican-sponsored conference Thursday, June 3, 2004, in Olympia, Wash. The presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry staged dueling events at the state Capitol on Thursday, sparring over the federal Patriot Act and the administration's record on veterans. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Toni L. Bailey)	Republican National Committee members Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and Charlotte N.C. Mayor Pat McCrory, left to right, look at a video of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry at the war room of the RNC headquarters near the FleetCenter in Boston, Wednesday, July 28, 20004, site of the Democratic National Convention. The RNC plans to publicly unveil an 11-minute video Wednesday that traces how Kerry struggled with the issue of Iraq through 2003 and early 2004 as he competed and finally won the Democratic presidential nomination. The video will be sent e-mail to about 8 million supporters. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Bernard Kerik, left, former Police Commissioner of New York City, raises the arm of President Bush, right, as he introduces him at a campaign rally Monday, Oct. 18, 2004 in Marlton, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)	Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, left, and former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik add flowers to the reflecting pool at the base of the former twin towers of the World Trade Center on the third anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Sept. 11, 2004. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, Pool)
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. Ridge submitted his resignation in writing to Bush on Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)	This image released by the White House on Friday, Dec. 10, 2004, shows Bernard Kerik's letter to President Bush asking to withdraw as nominee for secretary of the Homeland Security Department. (AP Photo/White House)
President Bush, right, with honorees former C.I.A. chief George Tenet, left, retired General Tommy Franks, second left, and former Iraq administrator, Paul Bremmer, second right, makes remarks during the the presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards, the nation's highest civilian honor, in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)	Artist Chris Savido talks about his painting "Bush Monkeys", an acrylic on canvas portrait of President Bush made of monkeys, at an East Village gallery in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004. The painting caused so much controversy at an art show at the Chelsea Market that the president of the market had the show shut down. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)