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
there is no specific, credible intelligence information indicating that an attack in the United States is imminent.
There has been a huge development overnight ... the historic French Quarter, dry last night and it is now filling with water. This is water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain; the levees failed overnight.
We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.
We offered to move him to another office far away from the FEMA building, where he could do no harm, ... We told him that he would have a nice desk, a telephone and a secretary, and that he could spend all day rewriting his resume.
We owe the American people a full accounting from all levels of government concerning what went right and what went wrong with the initial Katrina response,
There are many things that did not work well with the response,
We will have time to go back and do an after-action report, but the time right now is to look at what the enormous tasks ahead are, ... Meet the Press.
We are emphatically behind the idea that we must in this country be full partners with the rest of the world in a robust and free-flowing pattern of travel and trade.
extremely pleased with the response that every element of the federal government, all of our federal partners, have made to this terrible tragedy.
but other parts of the system have nearly collapsed under the weight of numbers.
New Orleans is of particular concern because much of that city lies below sea level,
Don has the leadership, ideas and optimism that the residents of the Gulf Coast Region deserve,
Then first stage is, of course, life saving, ... We've made a lot of progress in that respect.
That's one of the issues we have to look at.