U.S. Customs Chief Quits ("He and...Chertoff have been at odds...")

[truthpusher]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170739,00.html

U.S. Customs Chief Quits
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
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WASHINGTON — The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (search) announced his resignation Wednesday after overseeing the agency's transition to a front-line component of the war on terror.

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His departure has been expected for months. He and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have been at odds over issues including whether to transfer control of the civil air patrols over the Washington area from Bonner's agency to the U.S. Coast Guard.

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complete story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170739,00.html

[rodeodance]

1. gotta get along with Chertoff. He bites.

.....His departure has been expected for months. He and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have been at odds over issues including whether to transfer control of the civil air patrols over the Washington area from Bonner's agency to the U.S. Coast Guard.

[rodeodance]

2. So, anyone know if he was an experinced man?

[TomInTib]

3. So that's FEMA, FDA, Customs and Borders

Feel safer yet?

[Historic NY]

4. Interesting.....are they not carping about the borders too...........

now another guy exits stage left. The Smoke & Mirrors Homeland Security Dept is falling apart. Perhaps a new job for Drownie..Brownie.

[aquart]

5. Homeland Security needs to go.

Any agency called "homeland" needs to go. I know the Democrats originally proposed it, but I'll bet it looked a little different.

This agency endangers our lives.

[IndyJones]

6. That agency has done nothing to make us safe. It's been

smoke and mirrors to make people feel safer.

[ToolTex]

7. Who's daughter is Chertoff married to?

I saw it a few days ago, but it was late and I don't remember.

[Ben Ceremos]

8. If I recall

either Chertoff or his 2nd in command is married to the daughter of Gen.(Traitor) Myers. I also seem to recall that she, Julie Myers, is the one that Bush wanted to appoint to head the White House' Katrina Commission...please correct me if I am wrong.

[dusty64]

9. I'd really like to know how

that chertoff creature has been let completely off the hook for the complete failure of his department. Just asking. :shrug:

[Lindsay]

10. Brownie is the designated fall guy.

At least as long as the Repugs are in power. Nothing else to see here, move along.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. CNN: U.S. border protection chief resigns (supported "minutemen")

U.S. border protection chief resigns
Wednesday, September 28, 2005


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Robert C. Bonner, said Wednesday that he will retire.

He and the Bush administration have been at odds over his support for using civilian "minutemen" along the U.S.-Mexico border to assist border patrol agents. President Bush has equated the self-proclaimed volunteer group with "vigilantes."

Bonner told CNN on Wednesday that he was not asked to resign. He told reporters that it was "just time."...

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His departure will leave three top positions within the department vacant: the chiefs of Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

It was during his tenure that the three separate agencies, with its 42,000 employees, merged into the Department of Homeland Security when it was formed in 2003....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/28/bonner.retirement/index.html

[FyurFly]

12. I predict....

A Mass Exodus of Chimpy's cohorts as we draw closer to 2006.