Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much

I'd agree that he has no clue what's going on in his department. I follow most of the Congressional hearings pretty closely and I haven't noticed Chertoff taking much TSA-bashing -- at least more than anything else in his portfolio. If he's looking to start doing other things he hasn't done, such as cargo screening or port security, at the expense of the TSA (i.e.: making the TSA the bill-payer), he certainly didn't have to go public about it.

If he's fed up with Kippie, this is best handled internally. Going public with an internal issue is seen as a sign of weakness. For a guy like Chertoff, who is so full of testosterone that it oozes, I would think that this violates his prime directive.

'Still scratching my head...