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Michael Chertoff

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And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.


— Michael Chertoff


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And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane.


— Michael Chertoff


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First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.


— Michael Chertoff


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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.


— Michael Chertoff


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So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.


— Michael Chertoff


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The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.


— Michael Chertoff


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We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.


— Michael Chertoff


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Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.


— Michael Chertoff


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Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.


— Michael Chertoff


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Did you know about Michael Chertoff?

Attorney not replaced and stayed with the U. Clinton explained that her vote was in protest of the way junior White House staffers were "very badly treated" by Chertoff's staff during the Whitewater investigation. from 1979 to 1980.

law firm of Covington & Burling. 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. Attorney General.

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