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01-12-2005, 08:19 AM
Bush Names New Head For Homeland Security
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
January 12, 2005
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- President Bush nominated Michael Chertoff, a federal appeals court judge, to be the next secretary of homeland security on Tuesday. Chertoff's nomination took Washington by surprise since his name never surfaced among those being considered to take over for outgoing DHS head Tom Ridge.
The announcement was greeted with bipartisan approval due to Chertoff's long record of stellar public service. Before being named to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Chertoff had been an assistant U.S. attorney general, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a federal prosecutor in New York City, and a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.
More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/january/0112_bush_chertoff_d hs.shtml)
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
January 12, 2005
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- President Bush nominated Michael Chertoff, a federal appeals court judge, to be the next secretary of homeland security on Tuesday. Chertoff's nomination took Washington by surprise since his name never surfaced among those being considered to take over for outgoing DHS head Tom Ridge.
The announcement was greeted with bipartisan approval due to Chertoff's long record of stellar public service. Before being named to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Chertoff had been an assistant U.S. attorney general, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a federal prosecutor in New York City, and a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.
More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/january/0112_bush_chertoff_d hs.shtml)