Chertoff?!!! After all of the lawyer bashing during the campaign!

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U.S. attorney in New York (his boss was Rudy Giuliani), Senator Alfonse D'Amato hired him as minority counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee, elevated to the level of Court of Appeals judge--the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals . . .

Chertoff argued the government's case against Zacarias Moussaoui in a secret hearing before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Chertoff argued to the 4th Circuit that the Court could not order the government to produce its main witness against Moussaoui because the witness, was out of the country at an undisclosed location. Never mind that the witness was in the custody of the federal government at the time.

Chertoff was undoubtably chosen because of his willingness to subvert and ignore the constitution and disregard established defendant rights in the government's prosecution of their 'war on terror'. Ashcroft reincarnate.

Is anyone suprised that it appears that the only lawyers that this administration opposes are ones who won't kowtow to their fascist assault on civil liberties and constitutional rights. Brother!