United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff reflects on the aftermath of September 11, the changes in security policy that resulted from that event, and the challenges that still face the country - Georgetown University
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Michael Chertoff
As Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009, Mr. Chertoff led the country in blocking would-be terrorists from crossing our borders or implementing their plans if they were already in the country. He also transformed FEMA into an effective organization following Hurricane Katrina. His greatest successes have earned few headlines – because the important news is what didn’t happen.
At Chertoff Group, Mr. Chertoff will provide high-level strategic counsel to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of security issues, from risk identification and prevention to preparedness, response and recovery. “Risk management has become the CEO’s concern,” he says. “We help our clients develop comprehensive strategies to manage risk without building barriers that get in the way of carrying on their business.”
Before heading up the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Chertoff served as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Earlier, during more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted cases of political corruption, organized crime, corporate fraud and terrorism – including the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Mr. Chertoff is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1975) and Harvard Law School (1978). From 1979-1980 he served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr.
In addition to his role at Chertoff Group, Mr. Chertoff is also senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, and a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff reflects on the past five years at the Department of Homeland Security and evaluates three major metrics of the department's achievements.
"FEMA has been very substantially and successfully retooled," he says, commenting on one area of success at the DHS.
I guess if you are making a POLICE STATE, You need ignorance like this because they ignore constitutional rights. To give up Liberty for security you deserve neither.. Jefferson. TSA-Chertoff Sticking your hands down pants at airports or Radiate with body scanners, Rape or Radiate policy, when will Americans stand up to this Chertoff Lunacy, He is so much like the Germans-Hitler 1931. Next thing He will want to cancel the right to bare arms thats how Hilter-Stalin-Mao they all started with Homeland security system, everyone tagged-DNA recorded and filed, then came GUN CONTROL, disarm the public and the rest is ARREST, American Justice is JUST US and your NOT one of US. Thanks fora got my memories moving, Nazi mentality making a come back.
Her is a grade a fool, Chertoff F-off, This wimp of a human , left the Security Homeland and is a top executive, peddling the BODY SCANNERS SELLING THEM TO AIRPORTS BUS Stations AND TRAIN STATIONS knowing full well they cause skin cancer Dr. Russell Blaylock writes, Chertoff F--k off also suggested that most of the people will hate to get rough pat downs and will OP for the scanners not knowing the cancer involved. Yes He is a chip off the old Nazi block, Homeland security is USA version of 1931 Gestapo THE SCHWARTZE KORP is back with Chertoff at the lead, what a creep. I am old enough to have seen this before.