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Special Reports // 1 decade ago

DHS management chief named acting deputy

President Bush will designate U.S. Homeland Security Undersecretary for Management Paul Schneider as the department’s acting deputy secretary next week.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Chinese pipes used on U.S. border fence

The Department of Homeland Security is being criticized for using steel products from China to build a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Lawmakers up in arms over TB incident

Lawmakers want the U.S. government to explain why a man infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis was allowed to repeatedly enter the country.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Bush taps Boston lawyer for DHS GC job

President Bush nominated a Boston lawyer to be general counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Tuesday.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Labor wants DHS pledge on union data

Labor leaders have written to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urging him to declare he will not collect information about union membership.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Judge bars major illegal alien crackdown

A federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday blocked a Bush administration plan to force employers to fire up to 8.7 million illegal alien workers.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Public comment period extended on NRF

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it has extended the deadline for public comment on the National Response Framework draft.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

National Security Month a success

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that a record number of organizations participated in the fourth annual National Preparedness Month.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Texas to get small share of border fence

Texas, with the largest border with Mexico of any U.S. state, is getting the shortest stretch of fence meant to enhance border enforcement.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Border fence now 145 miles long

The Department of Homeland Security's border fence now stretches nearly 145 miles in towns from California to New Mexico.

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Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act.

He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals, as a federal prosecutor, and as assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005.

Since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as Senior Of Counsel at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling. He also co-founded the Chertoff Group, a risk management and security consulting company, which employs several senior officials from his time as Secretary of Homeland Security as well as Michael Hayden, a former Director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.

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