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...outcry has grown loud enough to bring out DHS officials for an aggressive counterattack. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who weighed in with an op-ed article in the Washington Post this week, told TIME in an interview that the ATS program is an "essential" way to look for the connections that terrorists have used in the past before they struck. "The ATS system", Chertoff says, "allows us to see connections like terrorists have known to have in the past and analyze them before something happens." Chertoff asserts that if this kind of data mining had been in place before Sept...
...Chertoff defends even aspects of the ATS data collection that might be deemed trivial and a needless invasion of privacy. In certain cases, for example, the U.S. can obtain the meal preferences of a passenger. Chertoff points out that such cases require special high-level approval from both the U.S. and international law enforcement authorities. The point, says Chertoff, is to use all the tools we have to act before the terrorist do. "If we sit back and just rely on a list of names, we will likely miss something. And we do not want to be in that position...
...Chertoff was also asked about the role Iraq played in anti-terrorism efforts...
...topic that never came up during the speech and subsequent question period was Hurricane Katrina. Chertoff oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose response to flooding in the Gulf Coast region was widely derided as inadequate...
...only regret is that we didn’t get a chance to talk about Katrina,” said Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr., who introduced Chertoff at the event. “We probably should have spent a little more time on domestic issues than on the international issues...