Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Peter Robinson ·
May 17, 2011 at 10:01am
In a couple of hours--I write at 10AM Pacific or 1PM Eastern--I'll be sitting down for an Uncommon
Knowledge interview with Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security during the second term of President George W. Bush.
Time is short--for which, mea culpa--but would anyone care to suggest a question or two?
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Oct '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
How can we balance liberty versus security during this age of terrorism?
May '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
So much of what Homeland Security does is widely seen as a joke, especially in airport security. Lately, it's gone from joke to far worse. Please find a respectful way to ask Mr. Chertoff if he ever felt foolish enforcing these silly, hyper-risk-adverse or politically correct rules, or alternatively, if he cares to defend everything HS does. See if he'll comment frankly on the kind of political environment that makes bureaucrats come up with this stuff.
May '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Does he view the role of Homeland Security as fundamentally a law enforcement role, or a wartime defense role? Would he structure things differently today given the chance?
Did the Department of Homeland Security ever study the example of Israel's airport security? Is their system, which does not involve passing shoes through x-ray machines and exposing children to full body scans any less safe than ours? Were any elements of their system embraced? Which ones? If not, why not?
Aug '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Junk touching ... discuss
May '10
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Why do we not profile, when as Ann Coulter points out, 99.9% of the people who want to blow things up have one of the 14 variants of Mohammed somewhere in their name?
Even when Christians in Northern Ireland were blowing each other up they never took it out on us.
Oct '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Ask why Political Correctness is allowed to over-ride common sense in defending ourselves. Ask him if he read Bruce Thornton's 'Appeasment' and what he thinks. My bet is you will get a pile of Administraion BS.
Mar '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
The real value of TSA. Before September 11th, what was the weapon and bomb catch rates on average when airport security was audited, what were they when he left office?
How can we justify spending billions a year on an agency that has yet to prevent a terrorist attack, appears to have no measurable increase on security and violates Americans civil liberty every day?
As an example of the poor security and how low-tech can defeat high-tech equipment rehash the story Allen West told on the French NR cruise about the IED(diffused) he has had in his luggage for years. He has gone through 30+ airport and has yet to be caught with it by airport security.
Edited on May 17, 2011 at 10:27amJan '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Has the restructuring of the intelligence and security organizations in the last ten years actually improved our effectiveness in those areas, or has it just reshuffled the deck chairs while adding another layer of administration and bureaucracy?
Oct '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Ask why Political Correctness is allowed to over-ride common sense in defending ourselves. Ask him if he read Bruce Thornton's 'Appeasement' and what he thinks. My bet is you will get a pile of Administration BS.
Mar '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Ask him about his financial connections to the companies that make these full body scanners.
Ask him why my sister gets "extra attention" (i.e. groped) every time she flies.
Ask him why I have to prove I'm NOT a criminal just to board a plane.
Ask him I why I feel the terrorists really have won.
May '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Will the hypersecurity state ever return to normal?
Will we ever reach a day in the future when airport security can be relaxed to more reasonable levels?
Will the public facilities, like museums, stadiums, and amusement parks, that have added metal detectors and pat-downs in the last decade ever be able to get rid of them?
Feb '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Mark Wilson: Will the hypersecurity state ever return to normal?
Will we ever reach a day in the future when airport security can be relaxed to more reasonable levels?
Will the public facilities, like museums, stadiums, and amusement parks, that have added metal detectors and pat-downs in the last decade ever be able to get rid of them? · May 17 at 11:02am
Answer to that one is simple: No. Too many jobs involved. Has the federal government ever gotten rid of anything? It is unidirectional. That's one of the reasons among many the Bush administration is such a total and complete failure. Why conservatives would ever say anything nice about Bush is beyond me.
Feb '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Thomas Jefferson.
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
1) Have him fill in the blank: "the greatest threat to America's homeland security comes from . . ." -- would it be a porous border, homegrown rogue terrorists, someone from overseas sneaking in a dirty bomb?
2) Rate Janet Napolitano's performance.
Mar '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
How can an organization of "more than 230,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector"* remain nimble enough to keep pace with a determined, chameleonic enemy? Can it?
*http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/
Jan '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Hang On
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Thomas Jefferson.
Great line, but the actual quote is from Benjamin Franklin, not Jefferson.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Mar '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
I'd like him to comment on Barry's lawsuit against Arizona too. But wait, I forget, Bushie was an open borders guy too..
Bill Whalen: 1) Have him fill in the blank: "the greatest threat to America's homeland security comes from . . ." -- would it be a porous border, homegrown rogue terrorists, someone from overseas sneaking in a dirty bomb?
2) Rate Janet Napolitano's performance. · May 17 at 11:36am
Jun '10
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How serious is the threat of a terrorist attack on this country with WMD's?
Jun '10
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Who does your hair?
Apr '11
Re: Michael Chertoff Two Hours From Now
Ask him what he thinks of the idea to supplement airport security through placing 2 or 3 armed plainclothes Air Marshals on each commercial flight.