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June 23, 2007 | 4:57 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

For those of us not hot on history, the past six years have taught us plenty about the follies of presidents rewarding political loyalists with high-office jobs. Hurricane Katrina. The reconstruction of Iraq. The U.S. attorneys debacle. (It seems there should be some way to blame LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo’s recent run on Bush favoritism, but, alas, there is not.)
Now think about this: Rudy Giuliani, who continues to lead the polls among Republican presidential candidates despite losing the support of most evangelicals, employs his childhood friend despite Grand Jury accusations that the man is a pedophile. Salon has the story:
Giuliani employs his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa as a consultant at Giuliani Partners despite a 2003 Suffolk County, N.Y., grand jury report that accuses Placa of sexually abusing children, as well as helping cover up the sexual abuse of children by other priests. Placa, who was part of a three-person team that handled allegations of abuse by clergy for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, is referred to as Priest F in the grand jury report. The report summarizes the testimony of multiple alleged victims of Priest F, and then notes, “Ironically, Priest F would later become instrumental in the development of Diocesan policy in response to allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests.”
Blogger Andrew Sullivan asks himself why Giuliani would affiliate with an alleged pedophile, even if charges weren’t pursued.
Because he was Giuliani’s childhood friend, best man at his first wedding, baptized his son, smoothed the way for his
divorceannulment, and buried his mother. In Giuliani’s world, family is family. Loyalty is loyalty. And the children can go to hell.
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