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Michael Chertoff -- The Man & His Star-Crossed Past
Jim Kirwan
"The Senate voted 98-0 to approve Chertoff on February 15, 2007 Chertoff, 51, took the oath of office that night in "a private ceremony at the White House."
DHS has a $32 billion budget, 180,000 employees, and jurisdiction over immigration, customs and transportation security, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The question of Chertoff's dual-nationality doesn't seem to have concern a single U.S. senator.
Many have wondered who let the detained suspected Israeli agents go back to Israel, immediately after 911. Apparently it was Michael Chertoff.
"Chertoff allowed scores of suspected Israeli terrorists and spies to quietly return to Israel . In several cases, Israeli suspects working for phoney moving companies, such as Urban Moving Systems from Weehawken, N.J., were caught driving moving vans which tested positive for explosives. On September 14, Dominic Suter, the owner of the moving company, which was found to be a Mossad front company, fled to Israel after FBI agents requested a second interview.
One group of 5 Israelis was seen on the roof of Urban Moving Systems videotaping and celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center. These Israeli agents were returned to Israel on visa violations.
These Israeli suspects, and others, who had apparently transported explosives in the New York area, were allowed to return to Israel without being properly interrogated, or their presence and activities in the United States having been vigorously investigated." (1)
What is publicly available about Chertoff's life and his various careers is not comforting, if you care about either law or justice-and it's especially troubling, if you demand a depth of character from those who occupy the highest offices in this land. Ah, but then this is the Cheney-Bush Era of Empire, so that 'quaint idea' is probably now completely without merit.
"Chertoff is credited with authoring the Patriot Act, the 300-plus page blueprint for the modern National Security State; patterned to great extent on the successes of the KGB in the Soviet system. He's admired among his Bush cadres for making sure that government surveillance operates at maximum efficiency. Under his stewardship at the Dept of Justice, the 4th amendment has withered like summer grass. The long-held belief that citizens have a right to a "reasonable expectation of privacy" has buckled under the demands of "Big Brother" and the new "intrusive" security paradigm."
And, Chertoff's record of failure at Justice is second only to that of Ashcroft. His 4 year tenure hasn't produced even one identifiable success. (Check out his "obstruction of justice" in the John Walker Lindh case on Democracy Now) Instead, his personal ineptitude and his palpable contempt for the law have only showered more disgrace on the institution of American justice. That probably explains why he's being moved up the bureaucratic dog-pile to the top rung of Homeland Security. In Bush-world "failing upwards" is more commonplace than cowboy boots at a Crawford tent-show." (2)
As someone that controls the largest Federal Agency in the US government the life and accomplishments of Michael Chertoff ought to be available and easy to locate, but that has not been the case. Instead the important details concerning Michael Chertoff's past have been meticulously scrubbed from the net. The basics are available from Wikipedia, but the facts surrounding the depth of his family's involvement in the actual creation of the State of Israel have disappeared.
"Chertoff is the co-author, along with Viet Dinh, of the USA PATRIOT Act , signed into law October 26, 2001. As head of the Justice Department's criminal division, he advised the Central Intelligence Agency on the outer limits of legality in coercive interrogation sessions." (3)
One of the little known aspects inside all the secrecy surrounding the vile National ID Card, the HOMELAND Security Act, and the shadowy FEMA camps that many believe are about to be used,concerns the other master criminals that Cheney-Bush hired to ensure that Americans will become as completely controlled a population, as were the people of Communist East Germany or the old USSR.
For Instance: "This "card" (the National ID Card) was designed for Homeland Security by the former East German STAZI chief, Marcus Wolfe, a master of manipulation and intimidation, and Primakov the former head of the KGB in the USSR. These two former spy chiefs are who really run our SECRET National Interior Spy Service. Bush employed them specifically for what they brought from their communist states. Now they decide who lives and who dies in America! These men have not changed. They are who they are, and that's why Bush & the Bandits hired them for HOMELAND Security. If these men appeared for work in the uniforms of their former States, the public would be outraged, and rightfully so! How is it that the radical right continues to decry Communism, yet they have allowed Bush to employ top communist counter-intelligence officers to oversee every facet of our lives?" (4)
Throughout this long international nightmare there remains the still incomplete tragedy of the insertion of Israel, as a State, into what was once Palestine. This conflicted and war-torn place has been the international flashpoint of privilege over human rights and bondage over freedom for over half a century. Flames and blood from this dispute were ignited by greed and by those dark and destabilizing dreams of Empire that were beginning even before the First World War. The dual Israeli-US citizenship of our Homeland Security Czar is incompatible with his position in government today. The USA is large enough to require that all our highest officials be Americans without dual citizenships, or conflicts of national interest from any other nation. (5)
kirwan
Controlled Press Hides Chertoff's Israeli Roots
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframesread=66175
Falling Upwards the Rise of Michael Chertoff
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney0122200 5.html
Michael Chertoff Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
Our CRIMINAL Justice System
http://www.rense.com/general65/criminal.htm
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due Jane Gardner
http://thepaleoconservativeprimer.blogspot.com/
www.rense.com/general77/chert.htm