Mike Chertoff Invites You to Pick a Target
The tragic story of Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane crash into a New York City highrise, painful as it is to his family and friends, is not about Cory Lidle.
The tragic story of Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane crash into a New York City highrise, painful as it is to his family and friends, is not about Cory Lidle.
It is instead, an unmasking of the incomprehensible actions (or lack thereof) on the part of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. Here again is every appearance of a lightweight trying to cover a heavyweight’s job—very nearly a Bush administration trademark.
Chertoff, who screwed up the Zacharias Moussaoui prosecution and wrongfully brought down the Arthur Anderson company in a case that wrecked the company and was reversed on appeal (after Anderson went broke and let go 26,000 employees), was co-author of the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act represents the largest wholesale raiding of the constitutional cookie-jar in U.S. history.
This current ‘open flight’ around Manhatta…