Michael Chertoff on Homeland Security - Are We Safe?

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Partner:: Aspen Institute
Location:: The Aspen Institute
Aspen, CO
Event Date:: 07.03.08
Speakers:: Michael Chertoff,; Jeffrey Goldberg
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Summary: Are We Safe?

A Conversation with the Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff moderated by Jeffrey Goldberg at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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Michael Chertoff

Michael Chertoff was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack 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.

Since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as Senior Of Counsel at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling. He also co-founded the Chertoff Group, a risk management and security consulting company, which employs several senior officials from his time as Secretary of Homeland Security as well as Michael Hayden, a former Director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent of The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, he was Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Previously, Goldberg served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. His book Prisoners has been hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by several publications including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.

Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards including the Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize, the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist, to name a few. Goldberg was a public policy scholar in 2002 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in 2001 he was the Syrkin fellow in letters of the Jerusalem Foundation.

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01.: Introduction

02 min 39 sec

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02.: Are We Winning the War on Terror?

03 min 16 sec

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03.: Is the Iraq War Hurting?

04 min 48 sec

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04.: Is a Catastrophe Coming?

04 min 18 sec

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05.: What To Do in an Attack

03 min 56 sec

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06.: Smuggling

04 min 04 sec

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07.: Border Issues

04 min 28 sec

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08.: Hurricane Katrina

05 min 14 sec

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09.: TSA

06 min 14 sec

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10.: Improvements to be Made

01 min 56 sec

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Michael Chertoff on Homeland Security, Are We Safe Yet?

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Michael Chertoff: The Tension Between Safety & Expediency

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