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Michael Chertoff's office is full of boxes. He's been the nation's Homeland Security chief for 30 days and still he hasn't paused to unpack. There are boxes in the corner, under his desk, stacked in front of the bay window. "They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down," Chertoff says. Not that sitting is a priority. Chertoff speed-walks to meetings where he peppers subordinates with pointed questions and blazes through topics he wants to cover. He has a bad habit, aides joke, of running ahead of schedule. "It takes all the energy...
...gave up a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to take Washington's most thankless job, Director of Homeland Security. But Michael Chertoff, 51, has big plans to streamline the department, allocating aid for states more wisely and informing the public of possible threats without alarming them. He sat down with TIME's Brian Bennett for his first extensive interview...
...HAVE SAID SECURING THE HOMELAND IS NOT A SPRINT, IT'S A MARATHON. EVER RUN A MARATHON? No, I've never run a marathon. Generally I run four to six miles. I have kind of been toying with the idea of doing a marathon, but I don't quite understand why I would want to do it. I guess I should have said, "It's not a sprint, it's a middle-distance...
Ever since Bernard Kerik, George W. Bush's choice to head the Department of Homeland Security, withdrew his name from consideration last December, the President had been playing it safe with his second-term nominations. And so it came as a surprise to almost everyone, in Washington and in foreign capitals, when the President last week announced John Bolton as his pick for the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. A senior State Department official whose 24-year career in and out of government has been defined by a self-professed distaste for treaties, contempt for diplomatic niceties and hostility...
...Iraq could have in mind. Intelligence officials tell TIME that interrogation of a member of al-Zarqawi's organization, who was taken into U.S. custody last year and has been described as a top aide, indicates that al-Zarqawi has given ample consideration to assaults on the American homeland. According to a restricted bulletin that circulated among U.S. security agencies last week, the interrogated aide said al-Zarqawi has talked about hitting "soft targets" in the U.S., which could include "movie theaters, restaurants and schools...