CAN HOMELAND SECURITY SURVIVE THIS?
Why Does Bush Keep Nominating Unqualified People?
And with questionable backgrounds? And tied to Rudy Giuliani? And from New Jersey? Is this a serious business, anti-terrorism or no? First they offer up a high school drop-out with miles of skeletons in his closet, just because he knew Rudy. Now they profer a newbie judge and former Giuliani unterprozekutor with no experience in counter-terror, and no history of running a huge bureaucracy, which is all Homeland Security is. Of course, they're both major ass-kissers, ruthlessly ambitious and partisan as Hell. Is that all the job requires, in the "Post 9/11" Neocon mind?
What bothers me is what bothered me about Kerik: His personal history. Lotta darkness, there. Kerik's Mom's a murdered hooker. Up front, but still way dark. Different kinda darkness here: Chertoff's Dad's a rabbi. But what kind of rabbi? Humanistic? Reconstructionist? Reform? Conservative? Orthodox? Ultra-orthodox? Messianic? A real Zionist, maybe? A Meyer Kahana fan? A virulently anti-Arab racist? Did he pass that along to his son?
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We don't know: The nominee bruits about his own religion, but he says nothing, really. There's the darkness: Information black-out. I'd like to know if he's some kind of a fanatic. That would be really dark.
Chertoff seems to have no problem pinning the World Trade Center bombing on "Arab or Arabs unknown." All our info on the attacks passed through Chertoff, before we got to see it. He took the lead on the Justice investigationof 9/11. His verdict that Arabs did it was certainly a shot in the arm for the extreme right-wing in Israel. They've had carte blanche, or rouge, ever since 9/11, from our State Department. And they've used it to devastating effect, on Mideast relations, Palestinian nationhood, and peace in general. All that has reflected badly on the U.S., and hurt us in the so-called "War on Terror." It's been like one long recruiting video for Al Qaida: Daily images of Israeli's killing Palestinians, and Americans killing Iraqi's.
Meanwhile, here at home, Chertoff was in charge of rounding up the usual suspects: Any Arab or Muslim they caught "spitting on the sidewalk" was locked away without trials or lawyers, even though none of them has subsequently been found guilty of anything connected to a terrorist act. Even the U.S. Department of Justice criticized that. Even though it's wrong, and un-Constitutional.
So, is Chertoff a rabid anti-muslim racist? Is he working for Eretz Israel, or us? Should he be running our Department of Homeland Security? Is anybody going to ask?
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