So, you're mayor of New York. You're told that the guy you're thinking of promoting to police commissioner has ties to the mob. You forget what you've been told and promote the guy. Later you recommend him for promotion to head up homeland security. Does any of that make sense to you?

Rudolph W. Giuliani told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as New York City police commissioner, according to court records.

Mr. Giuliani, testifying last year under oath before a Bronx grand jury investigating Mr. Kerik, said he had no memory of the briefing, but he did not dispute that it had taken place, according to a transcript of his testimony.

Is this a man we want in the White House?