Chertoff is the guy who screwed up so bad with the Katrina disaster, and denied that the government did not predict that the disaster could occur. Hmmmm...sounds like a good replacement for Alberto Gonzales. They're both loyal to Bush Co. and could care less about the American people.
WASHINGTON - White House Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend has turned down a request that she consider being the next Homeland Security Secretary, stoking speculation that former prosecutor and federal judge Michael Chertoff may be the front-runner to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Townsend, a native Long Islander, said she declined the job of Homeland Security Secretary currently held by Chertoff in a recent conversation with the White House, said a source with direct knowledge of the conversation.
A spokesman for Chertoff declined to comment this morning about whether his boss had been asked to step into the attorney general's post. Chertoff, a 53-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer may be a tough sell to a Democratic-controlled Senate because of his department's incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina and his support of the administration's aggressive anti-terror tactics.He also made key Democratic enemies in the mid-1990s as counsel to the GOP Whitewater committee investigating the business dealings of President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is now a New York senator and a leading candidate for president.
But Chertoff also has impeccable legal credentials. He was a federal judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which handles appeals from New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and the Virgin Islands. Before that, he was assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's criminal division from 2001 to 2003.(Click on source link below to read the rest of this article)
Source: Speculation grows about Chertoff as attorney general -- Newsday.com
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