#6 RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!

I don't intend to speak to President Trump’s recent executive order to, how shall I say it, modify the travel plans of certain individuals into the United States.  I understand that this is very sensitive topic, on which reasonable and fair individuals may differ, and I can see both sides of the argument.  Nor do I intend to speak to the confusion which emanated over the roll out of the new policy with members of Congress, our allies and with the government workers who are expected to implement this new policy.  On this later point, Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary acknowledged that while the roll out was immediate and may not have been perfect, there was a need to retain the element of surprise, purely for security reasons.  The argument goes that if we were to telegraph our actions ahead of the ban, “the people who want to harm us would flood into the country”.  While there has been discussion that “the flood” would be avoided by current policies, reasonable people may agree or disagree with this, the point is not completely void of  merit.

However, the point I do wish to speak to today, is the clearly massive security breach which was caused by one of President Trump’s key security consultants, Rudy Giuliani, who has had the President’s ear for a long time now.  .

Here is today’s reporting from Business Insider, and I went back and watched the Fox interview to which it refers, to confirm that this reporting does not represent a distortion by the liberal press. It does not.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani told Fox in an interview on Saturday (1/28/17) that he helped draft President Donald Trump's "extreme vetting" executive order after Trump called him and asked how to do a "Muslim ban" "legally."

"When he first announced it, he said 'Muslim ban,'" Giuliani, who served as the vice chairman of Trump's transition team, told Fox. "He called me up. He said 'put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.'"

Giuliani then put a commission together with Judge Mike Mukasey, Congressman Mike McCaul, Rep. Pete King, and a "whole group of very expert lawyers on this," he said.

"We focused on, instead of religion, on danger," Giuliani continued. "The areas of the world that create danger for us.  Which is a factual basis, not a religious basis.  Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible. And that's what the ban is based on."

Now it seems to me, Mr. President, that if you do wish to institute a Muslim ban and your goal is to circumvent the constitution, and you want to be sure you do it legally, by all means, you may certainly try. More power to you, Sir.  You are the legally elected leader of our country, and you have every right to exercise all the powers granted to you under the constitution. But here is a thought, Mr. President, one thing you might want to avoid, in cases like this, is actually telling the world that you are actively trying to circumvent the constitution and trying to do a “Muslim Ban” “legally”, and worse, actually having YOUR White House Cyber Security Advisor brag about it to the world and look so happy doing it!  

Now Mr. Giuliani has served his country well, and gets high marks for his leadership in New York City days after 9/11, but I am baffled by his apparent desire for outright transparency on this topic. It's not clear to me if Rudy is a few cards short of a full deck these days, or if his ego took such a blow by not being named Secretary of State that he feels compelled to show the world just how brilliant he really is, or maybe, just maybe, he was kidnapped and tortured by radical Islamic terrorists, and they got him do to what all torturers want of their victims – to tell the truth

Whatever the explanation is, if I am Shawn Spicer or Kelly Anne Conway, I would immediately begin work to remove Rudy from his role and put him out to pasture, as soon as humanly possible. You certainly don't want someone in your administration who is so honest, so transparent, so open, so….truthful.