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Michael Chertoff - New HomeLand Security Secretary per Fox News
crushelits | Jan. 11, 2004 | crushelits

Posted on 01/11/2005 6:41:46 AM PST by crushelits

Michael Chertnof - New HomeLand Security Secretary per Fox News


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; US: New Jersey; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chertnof; chertoff; dhs; fox; homeland; immigrantlist; michael; michaelchertoff; new; news; secretary; security; term2
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Whoops -- correction to my post #18 -- that should be Whitewater hearings, not Watergate hearings (Chertoff isn't THAT old!).


21 posted on 01/11/2005 7:04:38 AM PST by shhrubbery!
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To: TomGuy
Don't mean to put a damper on things--watching President Bush make the announcement about Chertoff.

Don't know if it is my tv, but Chertoff doesn't look altogether healthy.

22 posted on 01/11/2005 7:04:49 AM PST by NautiNurse (Osama bin Laden has more tapes than Steely Dan)
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To: NautiNurse

He's in fine health.

He's an AWESOME pick.


23 posted on 01/11/2005 7:06:50 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: NautiNurse

Chertoff is naturally thin and has those dark circles under the eyes. He looked that way ten years ago. I doubt either of those things are a sign of ill-health, at least in his case.


24 posted on 01/11/2005 7:07:15 AM PST by shhrubbery!
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To: crushelits
Bush picks a bureaucrat harvard lawyer who never carried a gun, never wore a badge,never was in the military, never worked on the frontline, to head Homeland Security... one "farce" at the border continues.

Flames up....pubbiecrats

25 posted on 01/11/2005 7:07:34 AM PST by gitmogrunt (undecorated and proud. God Bless our troops and their Families.)
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To: crushelits
Pres. Bush just said: "He's stood AGAINTS Racial profiling"

To quote Ann Coulter, "When 100% of the Terrorists are Muslim it's not racial profiling, it's called A DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPECT!"

26 posted on 01/11/2005 7:09:03 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: TomGuy

Thanks, the ACLU, NY Slimes, LA Slimes, Washington Compost and ABCNNBCBS will be trashing him before the day is over.


27 posted on 01/11/2005 7:09:14 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Help to insure freedom with a monthly donation to Free Republic!)
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To: shhrubbery!

Thanks, that's good to know. He appears older than stated age.


28 posted on 01/11/2005 7:09:23 AM PST by NautiNurse (Osama bin Laden has more tapes than Steely Dan)
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To: NautiNurse

That's just his "look". He is not a featherweight, don't let that look fool you. Great nominee!


29 posted on 01/11/2005 7:09:54 AM PST by pieces of time
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To: traviskicks
never heard his name before. dunno...

Think Whitewater hearings. He's a familiar name and face to many of us.

30 posted on 01/11/2005 7:10:26 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: TomGuy

Why would Bush take a good conservative off the appeals court and then risk having to go through the whole confirmation process of a new appointee?


31 posted on 01/11/2005 7:11:05 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: gitmogrunt

Never carried a gun?

Maybe you should do some research before you post.

This leads me to believe that the rest of your post is ill researched.


32 posted on 01/11/2005 7:11:16 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: gitmogrunt

i agree that he's not much but a "safe" pick. he's a career lawyer among career lawyers. that said, hopefully he will be a fierce advocate for the laws - including the immigration laws. but, alas, the president doesn't really seem worried about our southern border.


33 posted on 01/11/2005 7:11:23 AM PST by GodfearingTexan
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To: crushelits
I remember him fondly

Senator Clinton Again Lone Voice Against Chertoff

By TIMOTHY STARKS New York Sun June 11, 2003

Senator Clinton yesterday stood alone in a vote against judicial nominee Michael Chertoff, who had served as an aide to Senator D’Amato in the Whitewater investigation.

It was the second time she has gone solo in trying and failing to block Mr. Chertoff’s confirmation to a federal post. [excerpt]


34 posted on 01/11/2005 7:11:29 AM PST by syriacus (Was Margaret Hassan murdered because she could have testified about the oil for food corruption?)
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To: gitmogrunt
Bush picks a bureaucrat harvard lawyer who never carried a gun, never wore a badge,never was in the military, never worked on the frontline, to head Homeland Security... one "farce" at the border continues.

Let's not confuse your immigration agenda with homeland security. Name one of the 9/11 terrorists that entered this country illegally?

35 posted on 01/11/2005 7:12:23 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: xzins

Must be an old bio. He's on the Third Circuit right now


36 posted on 01/11/2005 7:12:47 AM PST by Military family member (Go Colts!)
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To: syriacus
http://committeeforjustice.org/contents/news/news061103_nysun.shtml

In 2001, Mrs. Clinton was the only senator to vote against Mr. Chertoff for the assistant attorney general position.

"Based on all the information she had, she did not believe he should be elevated to a position of such high responsibility," a spokeswoman for Mrs. Clinton, Karen Dunn, said.

37 posted on 01/11/2005 7:13:35 AM PST by syriacus (Was Margaret Hassan murdered because she could have testified about the oil for food corruption?)
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To: ConservativeMan55; gitmogrunt; GodfearingTexan

I think Gitmo prefers someone with the character of Benard Kerik.


38 posted on 01/11/2005 7:13:55 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: shhrubbery!
More:

Justice Dept. Warns of Risk to Prosecution and Security

excerpt:

In an argument intended to salvage the only major prosecution to result directly from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff said that Mr. Moussaoui had no constitutional right to question enemy combatants held overseas, even if they might have information that could help him defend himself against charges that carry the death penalty.

"This is not a Sixth Amendment case," Mr. Chertoff told a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, alluding to the right of criminal defendants to seek out witnesses on their behalf under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution. "What the defendant wants is to expand the Sixth Amendment."

Mr. Chertoff, who runs the Justice Department's criminal division and whose presence here was intended to underscore the significance of the case to the Bush administration, said that "the damage to the United States will be immediate and irreparable" if a court allowed Mr. Moussaoui and his lawyers to interrupt the interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects held abroad.

~snip~

39 posted on 01/11/2005 7:14:02 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: crushelits

He is not a Christian but he is a strong Conservative. He did a great job during the White Water Hearings.


40 posted on 01/11/2005 7:14:17 AM PST by bmwcyle (Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
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