Chertoff has already proven that he's clueless. His remarks the other day about TSA "having enough hands on deck" (a Navy term of all things for land-locked operations) ignores the fact that many of us are working mandatory overtime which, as would be intuitively obvious to the casual observer, indicates a lack of enough personnel for the mission as opposed to sufficient numbers for the job. I think this will put Chertoff in the spotlight more than away from it, and if he continues making empty-headed remarks, he could find himself on the same career path as the former head of FEMA.
Hawley was on the PBS News Hour last night doing an in-studio interview with Gwen Ifill. She asked him about the change of TSA people checking IDs and contractors loading bags. Hawley didn't have a clue what she was talking about and he started babbling about some of our airports use contractort screeners but they are trained to the same standards, etc, etc. Unfortunately, she let him off the hook and moved on to the next question. Hawley was also wearing a rug that was so bad, it made Sam Donaldson look like a GQ model.