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Profile this.

Back in November, when the latest Julie Myers fiasco broke out, I said I had no tears for her. She’s the crony DHS head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau whose unpreparedness for the job I’ve spotlighted repeatedly over the years. When word spread about her photo-op at a Halloween party with a [...]

You don’t say!

“Coming clean.”

Fraudulent Emergency Mismanagement Asshats.

Don’t let the door…

Chertie has chosen to lie in bed with the very people who make a living intimidating and suing vigilant Americans who take homeland security seriously.

Update: 7/11 11:15am: Chertoff forgot to share his tummy troubles with the White House, which denies there’s any emergency meeting about an increased threat of attack. Buffoonery: ” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had told the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board his “gut feeling” was that the United States faced an increased risk of attack [...]

Keeping tabs on the head of the Department of Homeland Insecurity: He’s off to Dearbornistan for a private meeting with a shady imam.

Update: Chertoff plays down report of imminent al Qaeda attack. Plays up shortage of lettuce pickers. And here’s more Chertoff finger-wagging.
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Actions have consequences. One of the negative consequences of the Department of Homeland Security’s push for shamnesty is its shrinking credibility. From the dog-and-pony show raids before shamnesty hit the Senate floor to the smearing [...]

Name-calling Michael Chertoff decries name-calling by exclamation point-wielding bloggers.

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He says, “Get real.” We say: Get a clue.
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Related: Hugh Hewitt’s interview with Chertoff earlier this week.
If Chertoff makes the Sunday rounds, will someone please ask him about his smearing of immigration enforcement proponents and expressed contempt for grass-roots conservatives. Please?

This is Manuel Flores. He is an illegal alien fugitive from the law. He is accused of raping and sodomizing his girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter.
Nine-year-old daughter.
Manuel Flores is free, reportedly headed back to Mexico, because federal immigration officials screwed up, according to a local Denver report. I linked to this story earlier today, but it [...]

7:35pm Eastern update: Here’s the cloture vote.

I’ll be guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor tonight and tomorrow night. We’ll be covering the immigration debate wall-to-wall. Catch the show at 8pm Eastern.
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Here’s your lunchtime blood-boiler: Video of the Michael Chertoff comment I mentioned this morning.
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: You know, Wolf, first, I understand there’s some people [...]

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has a great column in National Review Online defending the Justice Department’s actions in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He concludes:
The post-9/11 detentions were lawful, ethical, strategically appropriate, and involved an infinitesimal portion of the Muslim population in the United States. To have conducted the investigation [...]

During his DHS confirmation hearing, Michael Chertoff will likely receive heavy criticism for his role in the DOJ round-up of Middle Eastern illegal aliens in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News has launched the first volley in what is likely to become a meme:
[W]hile Chertoff may [...]

Judge Michael Chertoff for DHS chief? It’s good news. Yes, it is annoying to hear President Bush emphasize that Chertoff is “against racial profiling.” But a look at Chertoff’s strong, aggressive record and statements on homeland security shows that Chertoff supports exactly the kind of hard-headed, threat profiling measures and immigration enforcement opposed by the [...]

Legal Affairs has unveiled a poll asking readers to name “the country’s most influential and important legal thinkers�the ones whose ideas are pushing the law forward (or backward, as the case may be).”
The magazine lists 125 academics, judges, and writers/commentators. To compile the list of legal academics, the editors say they relied on rankings by [...]