Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoffis an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Presidents George W. Bush andBarack Obama, and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth28 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
interprets the law, straight without injecting your personal preferences.
That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight,
Don has the leadership, ideas and optimism that the residents of the Gulf Coast Region deserve,
My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.
This is a system in desperate need, ... and people are rightly upset and distressed.
I understand there are frustrations here, ... As the governor has acknowledged, we can't always get to people what we hope to get and as quickly as we hope to do it.
speaks for himself and he's entitled to his point of view, and I don't have anything to add.
So it's not meant to substitute for the trailers, but it's meant to recognize the fact that as we speak not everybody can or necessarily wants to get into trailers,
It's important to allow the new people who have the responsibility ... to have access to the information we need to do better, ... We don't want to sacrifice the real ability to get a full picture of Mike's experiences; we don't want to sacrifice that ability simply in order to make an image point.
shocked people out of a bit of complacency.
absolutely an appropriate response while this and other intelligence information continued to be examined and analyzed.
As you know, the president has established the 'White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response.' He will meet with us tomorrow to launch this effort. The Department of Homeland Security, along with other Departments, will be part of the task force and will assist the administration with its response to Hurricane Katrina,
There's no question that at least a medium-term, if not a long-term, challenge is for us to settle on a final location for the department.
Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.