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
Mike managed over 160 disasters during his tenure at FEMA, and his service in those disasters has been commended by many, ... He has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the federal response to the unprecedented challenge posed by Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee breach. He is a good man, and I personally appreciate his work and his commitment.
My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.
One of the things we'll look at is why in the middle of this emerging crisis there was kind of a conflict on the information,
Of course, demand was very high, and demand outstripped supply,
There are people who have been sweltering in shelters, waiting for food and water,
making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.
because our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor.
We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.
We cannot afford to let our guard down,
Through this kind of electronic passport we can verify travelers' identity, protect against identity theft and make it very difficult for forgers or impostors.
There are a lot of things that didn't work well. We are not where we need to be as a nation in the area of preparedness.
While it is very important to focus an enormous amount of attention and effort on what is going on here, we can't afford to let our guard down in respect to other threats that might happen,
We need to build that capability in FEMA,
We've got tropical storms and hurricanes brewing in the ocean.