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Everyone tells me Michael Chertoff is a smart fellow, and no one can question his dedication. After all, he gave up a nice lifetime job as a judge on a federal circuit court of appeals. Still, he talks in a way that makes alarm bells sound in my mind as I recall long dull meetings in the bureaucracy. He calls for a "properly risk-managed approach to critical infrastructure" and "an integrated, sensible, systems-based approach." And according to according to
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, he aims for "internal integration into a unified command structure:" I have to say that I have never known anyone who talked this way who was also an effective leader.
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Title Annotation:Department of Homeland Security's Michael Chertoff
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2006
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