Chertoff Outlines Security Goals by 2009

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By EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press
October 5, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reaching a new agreement with Canada to share air passenger information by the end of 2008 seems futile, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the White House in an internal report on his department's priorities.

An Oct. 3 memo to the president's chief of staff -- marked ''For Official Use Only'' and obtained by The Associated Press -- outlines the department's goals and the likelihood they will be met by the end of the Bush administration in January 2009.

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