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    Michael Chertoff

    2nd Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States

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  1. Sep 5, 2015 · 1.Attorney General – Michael Mukasey. 2. Head of Homeland Security – Michael Chertoff. 3. Chairman Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Richard Perle. 4. Deputy Defense Secretary (Former) – Paul Wolfowitz. 5.

  2. London School of Economics. Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W. Bush. Chertoff also served for one additional day under President Barack Obama. He was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act.

  3. Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953, Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American lawyer who was secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (2005–09). Chertoff was educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1975; J.D., 1978) and graduated with top honours. He was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (1980), New York (1987 ...

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  4. On February 15, 2005, Michael Chertoff became the second Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During his tenure, Chertoff worked to strengthen our borders, provide intelligence analysis and infrastructure protection, increased the Department’s focus on preparedness ahead of disasters, and implemented enhanced security at airports and borders.

  5. Sep 7, 2021 · As we mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Observer Research Foundation America brings you essays and conversations about a single day that forever reshaped longtime alliances and approaches to world affairs. As part of this series, we feature a virtual fireside with Michael Chertoff, former secretary of the Department of Homeland ...

  6. Chertoff has served as a United States Court of Appeals judge, federal prosecutor and assistant U.S. Attorney General. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Chertoff attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975. He then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978, going on to clerk for appellate judge Murray Griffin for a year before ...

  7. Sep 9, 2021 · Michael Chertoff ’78. Chertoff: Iran remains a threat, certainly regionally. China is a threat, not in the sense that we are going to have a terrorist attack but we could have a dialing-up of geopolitical rivalry across a whole spectrum of areas: military dominance, economic dominance, and cyber.