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January 12, 2005
CHILLING APPOINTMENTS
Here's why we need an alternative press: Compare Doug Ireland's piece today in the L.A. Weekly, "Mike Chertoff's Dirty Little Secrets," about the nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security -- as well as Ireland and Elaine Cassel's comments about Chertoff in interviews this morning on Democracy Now! -- with Eric Lichtblau's piece on Chertoff in The New York Times.
Also not to be missed: Sixteen minutes into the interview, Ireland's comments on the appointment last week of black reactionary Claude Allen as Georgie Boy's chief domestic policy adviser. Allen's appointment is even more chilling than Chertoff's nomination, Ireland believes, because it signals "the aggressive nature across the board" of a second Bush regime. Ireland speaks of the billions of dollars in faith-based initiatives as, in effect, a "religious tax" and sees Allen's installation as part of a would-be "Bush theocracy."
Unfortunately, the Democracy Now! link to Cassel's article of a year ago in Counterpunch, "Michael Chertoff: Ashcroft's Top Gremlin," is dead. (Maybe somebody at Counterpunch will revive it, please?) In the meantime, here's a link that works.
Posted by at January 12, 2005 10:43 AM
