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.
