Chertoff, quite literally,
talking out of one side of his face.
"I believe the secretary of Homeland Security will have to be mindful of the need to reconcile the imperatives of security with the preservation of liberty and privacy," Chertoff said in his prepared statement to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a member of the committee, said Chertoff's reputation was that of a "thoughtful straight-shooter," but the lawmaker used the word troubling to describe the Justice Department actions during Chertoff's tenure, including the development of legal theories "circumventing legal prohibitions against torture and inhuman treatment of detainees."
And I thought that was just a meaningless phrase.
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