Did you know that Michael Chertoff made his big time coming threat statements in a lengthy interview with the Tribune Company's editorial staff in Chicago in
July? 

The LA Times is now owned by Sam Zell (via his acquisition of the Tribune Company).  Below is the LA Times'' disappointing editorial endorsing Chertoff for Attorney General follows: 

Senators shouldn't accept anything less than a distinguished lawyer to
replace the attorney general.

Looking for the un-Gonzales

LA Times Editorial, August 28, 2007


Choosing a new attorney general will be easy if President Bush follows a
simple rule: Look for the opposite of Alberto R. Gonzales.

Apparently Gonzales finally recognized the damage caused by his mind-boggling explanations of his role in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys and a bizarre episode in which he tried to pressure his ailing predecessor,
John Ashcroft, into approving a legally dubious surveillance program. His news conference Monday was emblematic of his tenure at the Justice Department: He refused to answer questions and flirted with self-pity,
noting that "even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days." Those comments closed a cloying circle that began 2 1/2
years ago when Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) introduced Gonzales to the Judiciary Committee as "a Horatio Alger story -- Hispanic background, seven siblings, the first to go to college. . . . " That biography didn't prevent
Gonzales from presiding over a Justice Department that Specter later called "close to being dysfunctional."

The next attorney general shouldn't be chosen because of an inspirational life story or because he is a "close friend" of the president (Bush's description). The Senate shouldn't accept anything less than a distinguished
lawyer who can be trusted to insulate criminal prosecution from even the appearance of partisan meddling. But Senate Democrats should be careful not
to demand more -- a nominee whose policy views match theirs. The attorney general isn't simply the nation's top prosecutor; he's also a member of the president's Cabinet. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) recognized that
reality Monday when he declined an opportunity to oppose one possible successor to Gonzales, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Chertoff is hardly apolitical. In the 1990s, he was counsel for Senate Republicans in the investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton's Whitewater real estate deal. He has been an evangelist for the administration's immigration proposals and the target of valid complaints about the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina. But Chertoff is also a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, and a former judge who once headed
the Justice Department's criminal division. He, or someone with similar credentials, would be the un-Gonzales -- which is exactly what the demoralized Justice Department needs.

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2nd United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Incumbent
Assumed office  February 15, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Tom Ridge
Succeeded by	Incumbent
Born	November 28, 1953 (1953-11-28 ) (age 53) Elizabeth, New Jersey
Political party	Republican
Religion	Jewish

Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) is the current United States Secretary of Homeland Security. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals, as a federal prosecutor, and as assistant U.S. Attorney General. He was nominated to succeed Tom Ridge as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security by President George W. Bush on January 11, 2005. His nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 15, 2005, in a unanimous 98-0 vote, and Chertoff was sworn into office the same day (although a ceremonial swearing-in presided over by Bush took place on March 3).   Chertoff is co-author of the Patriot Act and in recent publications has called for restrictions on Internet access and for content restrictions.

Speculation that Chertoff may be a possible successor to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been consistent since the the controversy over the dismissal of U.S. attorneys received national attention in March 2007. The speculation has grown since Gonzales's announcement on August 27, 2007, that President Bush had accepted his resignation, to be effective September 17, 2007.

Chertoff is Jewish and is married to Meryl Justin. They have two children.

Chertoff's Early history

Chertoff was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of Rabbi Gershon Baruch Chertoff, the former leader of the B'nai Israel Congregation in Elizabeth, and El Al flight attendant Livia Chertoff (née Eisen). His paternal grandfather, Rabbi Paul Chertoff, emigrated from Russia. His grandfather was a noted Talmudic scholar.  C hertoff went to The Pingry School. He later attended Harvard University, where he was a research assistant on John Hart Ely's Democracy and Distrust, graduating in 1975. He then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978, going on to clerk for appellate judge Murray Gurfein for a year before clerking for United States Supreme Court justice William Brennan from 1979 to 1980. He worked in private practice with Latham & Watkins from 1980 to 1983 before being hired as a prosecutor by Rudolph Giuliani, then the U.S. attorney for Manhattan, working on Mafia and political corruption-related cases. In the mid 1990s, Chertoff returned to Latham & Watkins for a brief period, founding the firm's office in Newark, New Jersey.