The Associated Press moved a story to many papers that incorrectly likened Bernard Kerik’s nanny troubles to a 1993 Clinton nominee for the Justice Department’s civil rights division. AP has now corrected this story and also admitted to making the same error back in 1995. The correction:
In a Dec. 10 brief and
story about Bernard Kerik’s withdrawal as homeland security
secretary-designate, The Associated Press reported erroneously that
Lani Guinier, who was President Clinton’s choice to head the Justice
Department’s civil rights division in 1993, had not paid taxes for a
domestic worker. A spokesman for her at Harvard Law School said there
was no such problem, and the White House never indicated that there
was. Clinton said he withdrew her nomination because of her legal
writings on racial issues. The same incorrect reference to Guinier and
unpaid taxes on a domestic worker was in a 1995 AP item about Clinton
choices who had problems in the confirmation process.
