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Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff ’75 returned to his alma mater last night to defend the Bush administration’s anti-terrorist tactics—including its domestic wiretapping program—in a speech before a packed audience at Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtoom...
...Immigration Project’s other co-president, second-year law student Alison Kamhi, asked Chertoff about his department’s immigration policies during a question-and-answer session. He did not address many of the group’s specific criticisms, but said that the Homeland Security Department should step up border enforcement, implement a temporary worker program, and make sure that applicants for citizenship have abided by existing immigration laws...
...consequences have to be measured with real world decisions when deciding on matters that deal with life or death,” said Chertoff, who lived in Currier House as an undergraduate and earned a law degree from Harvard in 1978. “Terrorism in real life doesn’t wait until you are done reviewing the evidence...
...Chertoff, who has served as Homeland Security secretary since January 2005, said that the government’s programs were critical to the prevention of future terrorist attacks...
...Politicians in the U.S. and U.K. reacted to the alleged London plot with a mixture of hysteria and grandstanding. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff ’75, HLS ’78 practically broke down in tears: “Very seldom do things get to me. This one has really gotten to me.” And, as a “close the barn door” policy, the government immediately imposed draconian restrictions on U.S.-U.K. flights, which they have only gradually loosened...