DHS Michael Chertoff with Texas Governor Rick Perry
The New York Times presents a photograph of Alberto Gonzalez at an event to commemorate Katrina -- Albert is sitting alone, with his eyes closed. Maybe he is thinking about the nightmare that would occur if Chertoff became Attorney General. Albert only pressed for breaking the Geneva Convention, pushed the death penalty and had lots of people in the Justice department fired.
But Chertoff would do much worse. On one of his "hunches" he could imagine that he needs to change policy and try to deport all the undocumented immigrants in the U.S. He sort of looks like the Emporer in Star Wars, only skinnier.
Pardon my concern, but I have a hunch he would make a very nasty Attorney General.
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Democrats Say They Will Press Gonzales Inquiries
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID JOHNSTON
New York Times
Published: August 29, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28
...The White House said it would move quickly to find a replacement for Mr. Gonzales. A spokesman would not confirm the names of candidates under consideration.
Several names continued to circulate on Tuesday on Capitol Hill and within the department, including those of Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security and a former senior Justice Department prosecutor; Theodore B. Olson, who was solicitor general earlier in the Bush administration; and Larry D. Thompson, a former deputy attorney general.
Colleagues said Mr. Chertoff was especially eager for the appointment. Although lawmakers saw him as a leading candidate, several Democrats suggested he would come under unflattering scrutiny if nominated because of his role in the government’s initially disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina two years ago and his involvement at the Justice Department in legal issues related to interrogation of terror suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks.
“There would be a lot of careful questioning of Chertoff,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee. “There is not confidence among Democrats that he has an instinctive desire to side with the rule of law over politics.”
Mr. Chertoff, meeting with local officials in Mobile, Ala., on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, was evasive on Tuesday when asked about speculation that he was being considered as Mr. Gonzales’s replacement.
“The president will make the decisions he will make and will make any announcement when he chooses to do so,” Mr. Chertoff said. “I think I have given all the answer I am going to give as far as press speculation goes on who will fill that job..."
For complete article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/washington/29gonzales.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1188390590-6renIroogep3Jq9q7oLH9w
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