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Michael Chertoff headed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in its early years, from 2005 to 2009. As the third largest cabinet branch, with 218,000 employees, DHS controls immigration, borders, and even protects the president. Chertoff talked recently with NEWSWEEK's Jerry Guo about his tenure and new dangers facing the country. Excerpts:
The House approved a measure Thursday that would make the current estate tax rate permanent, setting it at 45 percent for individual estates worth more than $3.5 million.
US President Barack Obama has approved the possible deployment of an additional 3,000 troops to support the 30,000 reinforcements already ordered to Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.
The White House has authorized an expansion of the C.I.A.’s drone program in Pakistan’s tribal area, to parallel the president’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.
The White House has authorized an expansion of the C.I.A.’s drone program in Pakistan’s tribal areas, paralleling the president’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a strong signal Thursday that he has full hands-on control of his country.
President Hamid Karzai tells The Associated Press that setting a 2011 date for U.S. withdrawal will push Afghans to take control of their own destiny.
Continuing obstacles provoke skepticism from Congress about whether the U.S. military can train the Afghans quickly and effectively enough to begin to replace American forces by Obama's proposed exit start date of July 2011.
President Barack Obama is delaying moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Brussels Friday to nail down European backing for a troop surge in Afghanistan that commanders say should turn the tide of the war by mid-2010.
The United States government has only spent 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico fight drug traffickers, according to a government study released Thursday.
Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Thursday as an unreliable ally that could spare the U.S. its bruising fight with al-Qaida if it wanted.
The Obama administration will spend at least $3.5 billion to push local officials around the country to close failing schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals.
The U.S. aerospace industry urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to press for changes to an international pact to spur the multibillion-dollar market for remotely piloted aircraft.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year, but suggesting to Congress that it covers all U.S. forces.
Stung by the continuing struggle to make a vaccine against the swine flu pandemic, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Tuesday her department would review its approach to disaster preparedness.
A review finds a significant drop in the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws after the Clinton administration.
The ink barely had time to dry on Comcast's blockbuster deal for NBC Universal Thursday before critics began fretting over how much power the merged entity will wield.
The race for a Senate seat once held by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, John F. Kennedy and "liberal lion" Edward M. Kennedy is shaping up as a battle of relative national unknowns, led by a state Democratic insider and a Republican lawmaker perhaps best known as a male centerfold and father of an "American Idol" contestant.
Tehran quietly helped the U.S. overthrow the Taliban in 2001. But as tensions with the West mount, Iran's interests in cooperating in Afghanistan may be trumped by more hostile priorities
President Barack Obama said he'd send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But the actual number could be higher.
