This is a phenomenal pick. Chertoff is TOP DRAWER. Brilliant, engaging, has worked the press in the past, good conservative credentials, but not an ideologue. Bush could not have made a better pick for this post.
fine, he's a good guy, conservative, with good legal/judicial credentials.
what does any of that have to do with running Homeland Security? Any law enforcement experience? Any "on the ground" experience with any of the types of agencies who conduct Homeland Security?
I think you are correct.
Kinda makes you wonder what he was thinking accepting the Kerick nomination first.