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Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff Describes Working Under President Bush, Taking Down Enron, and Building The Patriot Act

May 16, 2023
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Michael Chertoff is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W. Bush. He was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. Chertoff previously served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005. Since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as senior of counsel at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling. He also co-founded the Chertoff Group, a risk-management and security consulting company.

For links to the 9/11 episodes Josh references in the interview, see below:

Dave Paventi - https://rb.gy/hjonc

Tom Wilson - https://rb.gy/gzvyw

Michael O'Connor - https://rb.gy/wdrdz

Ivonne Sanchez - https://rb.gy/1haxt

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