> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:35:07 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> writes:
>
>> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>>
>
>>> I know Chertoff slightly. I think he's being honest. I doh't
>>> think he'd tell what he thought to be a lie if prompted ina
>>> briefing. He was, among other things, a (really good) US Attorney
>>> and a federal appellate judge, two things that give one an
>>> allergy to bald faced lying.
>
>>
>> Justin, what he's saying just isn't credible. Precisely what
>> happened in NO was widely forecast. FEMA had to have known it. How
>> could he say that they had no idea of the suffering in the
>> convention center when it had been all over the TV for days? If
>> he's not lying, he's an idiot, and you can't be an idiot and be a
>> US attorney, can you?
>
>
> I don't know but I think that the practicing of law has really
> clouded Justin's judgment. I think that most of us here realize that
> lawyers can be and often are liars and crooks. And more than a few
> are idiots and nitwits too. But sometimes fellow lawyers have a hard
> time seeing that.
It depends on the relationship. Some relationships strip off the veneer. I have some knowledge of Chertoff from when he was U.S.Attorney in Jersey. It was a drug money laundering case. I cannot go into detail. He's vile.
john mage