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Chertoff Group

institution
The man who helped write the security rules later went to work for a company that sells security machines.
Who they are

Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Chertoff Group, a risk-management and security consulting company he co-founded after leaving government.

What they do

A revolving door between government and the security industry.

How it works

Chertoff was Secretary of Homeland Security when the PATRIOT Act was carried into law. He then left government to head the Chertoff Group. The Chertoff Group represents Rapiscan Systems, one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines. During a previous push for a TSA contract, Rapiscan employed Chertoff. The record does not show that the Chertoff Group held any contract, funding line, or formal instrument with DHS or TSA, or that Chertoff's interest in Rapiscan is ongoing or influenced policy.

Why it matters

It shows how a person can move from writing the rules to working for a company that sells to the agencies those rules govern.

The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "The PATRIOT act was carried through into law, and Chertoff left government to head the Chertoff Group , ‘making the world safer’ sort of stuff." Cross-sourced to chertoffgroup.com, en.wikipedia.org, motherjones.com, theintercept.com — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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