Thread: Senate puts Chertoff on notice

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Senate puts Chertoff on notice
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published November 14, 2005

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Concerned that the nation's borders are not properly protected against terrorists, illegal aliens and drug smugglers, a Senate committee warned Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that if he fails to correct the situation promptly, they will.

Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican and chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the panel's ranking Democrat, want to know whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) should be merged to "enable them to operate more effectively."

In a report made public last week, the Homeland Security Department's Office of Inspector General recommended that the two agencies -- with overlapping jurisdiction for border security and immigration enforcement -- be merged, questioning whether they had the ability as separate organizations to carry out their homeland security missions.

The report, requested by Mrs. Collins and Mr. Lieberman, said a lack of effective coordination between the agencies had affected apprehension, detention and removal efforts.

"This report presents a strong case that the status quo cannot be allowed to continue," Mrs. Collins said. "[It] verifies what so many law-enforcement officials, current and former employees of the agencies, and well-respected outside groups have said -- these two agencies are dysfunctional in their current structure."

Mr. Lieberman said the report "exhaustively documented serious coordination problems" between ICE and CBP, adding that the "organizational difficulties have impeded the agencies' investigations, intelligence sharing and their efforts to apprehend, detain and deport aliens."

Several ICE supervisors and field agents have said the agency has struggled to establish a mission strategy and have criticized poor administrative systems.

Mr. Chertoff, in naming his former Justice Department chief of staff, Julie L. Myers, to lead ICE, has committed to giving the agency a chance to succeed.

Under a pending realignment plan, ICE and CBP remain as stand-alone agencies, reporting directly to Mr. Chertoff.

Mrs. Collins said she "discussed the matter" with Mr. Chertoff and that he should have more time to make structural changes. But, she warned, if significant changes are not made in a reasonable time frame, her committee would consider legislation merging the agencies.

CBP Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, who resigned from his position effective this month, said during an interview last week that he supported a merger of the two agencies, although it was Mr. Chertoff's decision.

But in a Dec. 16, 2002, letter to Mr. Chertoff's predecessor, Tom Ridge, before the creation of CBP and ICE, Mr. Bonner recommended against creating separate border-enforcement agencies, saying the split would be "exceedingly complicated and muddy."

Meanwhile, a House Homeland Security subcommittee will hold a hearing tomorrow to discuss whether CBP and ICE should be merged.

CBP Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, who resigned from his position effective this month, said during an interview last week that he supported a merger of the two agencies, although it was Mr. Chertoff's decision.

But in a Dec. 16, 2002, letter to Mr. Chertoff's predecessor, Tom Ridge, before the creation of CBP and ICE, Mr. Bonner recommended against creating separate border-enforcement agencies, saying the split would be "exceedingly complicated and muddy."

They are ALL LIARS!!

Throw these BUMS OUT!!

You DO NOT merge, realign, de-merge, separate, REORGANIZE THE BUREAUCRACY when you have a critical mission to PERFORM!!

FIRE CHERTOFF!! HE is the bum that wrote the official account of 9/11 and "identified" culprits whose names were not on the airline passenger manifests; whose passport in the case of ATTA had an outdated passport picture meaning that passport was faked and planted at 9/11; which means WE DON"T KNOW WHO is responsible for 9/11; or whether or not Osama bin Laden had anything to do with it; or whether or not Afghanistan had anything to do with it--a country WE INVADED based upon the CHERTOFF account of 9/11 not one word of which can be VERIFIED and much of it can be easily DISPUTED.

GET TROOPS TO THE BORDERS AND PORTS NOW AND STOP THIS BUREAUCRATIC NONSENSE!!

WE can not believe ONE WORD coming out of Washington. These people control the White House, the US Senate, the US House Representatives, and the US Supreme Court.

They will do anything, My Friends, to get their way.

DON'T SPEND, SAVE!!

Activate: "ABLE SAFE"

CODE: "All I Want for Christmas Is My Country Back"

Lets BUST "EM!!

Well, I put my Senators on Notice every day. That when election time comes, they will need to be looking for work like the Rest of the American Citizens. Oh yeah if I talk to one Staffer here in Cincy. I make sure she knows to pack her bags and get ready for Dewine to be Booted out of office.

Good going, Senators Lieberman and Collins. Stay on the idiot, Chertoff.

You forgot to mention his inexcusable handling of Hurricane Katrina, Judy. This man needs to go. AND, NOW might be too late.

OH MI GOD!! Yes, Bootsie, and add Katrina where he's relying on the local newspaper while munches on bagels and slurps his juice for INTEL on victims of Katrina. AND this is the same guy who was in charge of the 9/11 investigation as Head of the Criminal Division of the US Justice Department. He can't figure out the status of Louisiana following a Category 5 Hurricane but he could figure out who done it in New York and Washington on 9/11?

Oh pleeease.

He'a CON MAN.

GET HIM OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT!

I can't stand to look at him.

He is the CREEPIEST looking CREEP up there! Gives me the willies. Not the SLICK ones either! His brain is FRIED. AND, what ELSE is our Wackident gonna give him to do??

What Washington needs is a HUGE VACUUM CLEANER. Just get on top of the tallest building, plug that sucker in and start SUCKING.

Yes, a Traitor Suck Vac !! Lets invent one and get rich!! This is the type of "innovation" we need to rejuvenate in the USA. Think of all the good jobs we'll create manufacturing that those suck pak machines?

We could have a whole line.

1. Traitor High Sunction/Auto Space Eject Vac

2. Con Job Debunker High Pressure Decompression Vac

3. General Illegal High-Powered Pick-Up/Remover Vac

4. Aider and Abetter Squash/Vac Combo

5. Globalist Garbage High Density Landfill Ready Compactor/Vac Combo

6. Criiminal Illegal High-Detection Track/Pack/Disposal Vac

That should be good to get us started!!

Then, we will invent the GURGITATOR To empty them!

Yes--it would be the:

Hydrogen-Powered Gurgitator Terminator Wet Vac--Five Easy Steps:

Add water, mop, suck, empty and..... FLUSH!!

Now, THIS is a downward spiral I could get used to.