Trust your gut

Fred's post on Chertoff got me thinking...

Chertoff and Lieberman are screeching like crazy lately.

Chertoff has a gut feeling that there's going to be an imminent attack. Is this just more crying and whining designed to round up the lost lambs of the bush base?

Or is it time for 9-11 part deux?

I wonder what part of his Gut has informed Chertoff of this imminent attack?

Does it have something to do with Phillip Perry, Cheney’s son in law, his connection to Chertoff, Lieberman, DHS and dismantling safety protections?

These guys are too arrogant to refrain from crowing about an attack so that they can be the first ones to claim credit, sadly (oh, so sadly), that they saw it coming.

They are the ones making it easier for our country to BE ATTACKED- as Art Levine notes in this telling article in Washington Monthly:

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"The result has been that our chemical sites remain, even five years after 9/11, stubbornly vulnerable to attack. Philip Perry has hardly been alone in tolerating this. Others in the White House and Congress have been equally solicitous toward the chemical industry. But as part of a network of Cheney loyalists in the executive branch, Perry has been a key player in the struggle to prevent the federal government from assuming any serious regulatory role in business, no matter what the cost. And a successful attack on a chemical facility could make such a cost high indeed. A flippant critic might say the father-in-law has been prosecuting a war that creates more terrorists abroad, while the son-in-law has been working to ensure they’ll have easy targets at home. But it’s more precise to say that White House officials really, really don’t want to alienate the chemical industry, and Perry has been really, really willing to help them not do it."

The full article here- Dick Cheney's dangerous Son in law


This is what American has become. This is OUR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY on nepotism, corruption, and power-madness.

Levine ends with this:

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“In January 2007, Perry announced his intention to step down as general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security and was rumored to be returning to Latham & Watkins. Elizabeth Cheney, Perry’s wife, had given birth to the couple’s fifth child in July 2006, and Chertoff spoke of fully supporting Perry’s “decision to put his family first.” But there were other reasons for Philip Perry to leave government, too. After all, he’d done what he came to do.”

Foxes in the henhouse. They are not only as corrupt as you think, they are far, far worse.