Michael Chertoff is a former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2005–2009) who previously served as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice. A prominent figure in national security law and policy, he contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on topics related to justice and counterterrorism.
IN THE LITANY OF CRITICISM of American foreign policy, one refrain is constant. Americans are accused of showing contempt for international law and the international community by challenging the newly ratified International Criminal Court. Nongovernmental organizations in particular have accused…
ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, acts of war were unleashed on the United States by a stateless international enemy which we know as al Qaeda. Actually, al Qaeda formally declared war against the United States during the late 1990s, but most of the American public did not pay much attention. That changed, of…