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
was deeply and personally engaged in the process from before the hurricane. I was deeply and personally involved in the process from before the hurricane.
We are very mindful of this. We haven't suspended the laws that govern the way in which people have to behave ethically and legally.
We are taking a giant step forward in implementing this risk-based strategy.
We are still in the emergency. People must take seriously the fact that we have enormous ongoing challenges which we have to address right now or we're going to continue to have serious problems,
There's no question that with the addition of National Guard and regular troops we've secured the city,
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.
There's not enough time to answer the first part of your question,
We can't be in the position any longer where we are paying the burden and bearing the burden for countries that won't cooperate with us and take their own citizens back.
We've got the adequate personnel now who are able to make sure that we have a comprehensive evacuation effort.
We have to operate with a new level of cooperation and commitment with members of the international community,
We have to have seamless interaction with military forces, ... Mike Brown has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the federal response to this unprecedented challenge. I appreciate his work, as does everybody here.
We're working very closely with the governor and the other state officials to make sure that we are completely connected in terms of their needs and what capabilities they're asking us to bring to the table, ... American Morning.
That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.
Mike Brown talked about the need to take seriously this hurricane ... It was difficult to know where on the Gulf Coast it was going to land.