Now You Tell Us (Rudy Giuliani Edition)

Hot news, folks—25 New York prosecutors say that Rudy Giuliani is a liar is a manipulator, an exaggerater, and a self-promoter (link):

Ex-Prosecutors ‘Challenge Giuliani’s Assessment’

By Sewell Chan

A group of 25 former prosecutors from the New York area — most of them veterans of the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan — have issued a public letter assailing Rudolph W. Giuliani’s record as the head of the office, from 1983 to 1989. The former mayor’s campaign dismissed the letter as criticism from lawyers who now have a vested interest in criminal defense.

The letter asserts that Mr. Giuliani, who is now seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for president, improperly used the office to promote himself, leaked information to reporters and exaggerated his accomplishments, and that such behavior “casts doubt, generally, on Giuliani’s credibility and judgment.”

The criticism is consistent with an Op-Ed article published in The Times last month by John S. Martin Jr., who preceded Mr. Giuliani as the United States attorney in Manhattan and later served as a federal judge. In the article, Judge Martin questioned Mr. Giuliani’s assertion that he “turned around” the office during his nearly six-year tenure. …

That’s fine and it’s hardly a surprise, except—why now? That hideous gurgling sound you her from Florida is Rudy sliding into the quicksand, or being digested by an alligator. His campaign is dead and just waiting to lie down. I guess you can say that in the end this letter isn’t very important anyway, but where was it six months ago when it might have been, well, important?