Chertoff never gets tired of saying the same tired things:

September 10, 2008
Chertoff: Aviation still vulnerable to terror
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:38 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top domestic security official said Wednesday aviation remains vulnerable to terrorist attack seven years after 9/11.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the al-Qaida terrorist network continues to focus on the aviation system as a target. He said that the Bush administration has made strides in reducing the nation's vulnerability but that the risk remains.

Chertoff was speaking at the National Press Club. Thursday is the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, in which terrorists crashed hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the president thinks about 9/11 every day and is always concerned about another attack.

''The terrorists are very determined, and they have to be right only once, and we have to be right every single time,'' she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/wash...Terrorism.html

Gotta keep the fear level up in the minds of the couch potatoes.

Election coming. Gotta keep it in the family & try to boost boss-man's legacy.

True. Skeletor is the past master of putting lipstick on a pig.

Problem is, it's still a pig.

Skeletor is a piece of human garbage who will hopefully never work in government again after Jan 2009.

Great. As long as he doesn't go to work in upper echelons of any airline.

Ya think?

Bruce

He'll become some form of "Security Expert" dragged out by the "news" media each and every time there is a "breach of security" at an airport. For his "expertise" he will be paid decent 6-figure income.

Sigh.

Did anyone think we would be here seven years after?

Actually, my belief was that it would be much worse by this time.

Then again, 1984 was only about thirty years off.

So, he's not done the job he was tasked to do. I'm sure he's got his golden parachute when he leaves (yes I know he's a gov't employee and they don't get golden parachutes but pretty sure he's got a security job lined up in the private sector somewhere)

I remember them telling us that if we changed how we live, we'd let the terrorists win. By that definition, we seem to have let them win.

My thought's exactly. I wonder why no one asks him why he's not taking responsibility for the failure? After all, it is HIS fault (and his underling Kippie) for not securing aviation security.

Wow, that's so sexist!

I wonder if he made the speech because he had another gut feeling.

Mike

And he's absolutely right.

The billions spent on TSA have done nothing to make aviation more secure -- it's the world's most expensive dog-and-pony show.

Cold War is over... have to find something else for those nameless faceless weapons / security firms to make their $$$ ... bada bing GWOT!