Politics As Usual Instead of Security

Michael Chertoff possesses the impressive résumé and aggressive bearing of a big-time official, but as Secretary of Homeland Security, he behaves more like a small-time hack. His feeble judgment in matters of policy, personnel and politics—first demonstrated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year—has proved that he was never qualified to protect the United Read More

Your Right to Privacy? Not in the War on Terror

They must be very, very, very dirty pictures. They were dirty enough to drag Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales away from writing legal memoranda justifying torture and get him on a plane to Chicago. Once he arrived in the Windy City, he announced that 27 people, here and abroad, have been charged with being members Read More