Michael Chertoff
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The man who co-wrote a sweeping security law later ran the agency that used it, then left to sell security gear to the same government.
Who they are
Michael Chertoff, co-author of the PATRIOT Act and second Secretary of Homeland Security.
What they do
A case of a person moving between writing rules, enforcing them, and then selling to the agencies he once led.
How it works
In 2005, Chertoff, who helped write the PATRIOT Act, became Secretary of Homeland Security. After leaving that post, he headed the Chertoff Group, a firm that represented Rapiscan Systems, a major maker of whole-body imaging machines. During a previous push for a TSA contract, Rapiscan employed Chertoff. The record does not show any formal contract or funding line between the Chertoff Group and DHS or TSA.
Why it matters
It shows how the same people can shape security policy, run the agencies that carry it out, and then profit from selling to those agencies.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "In 2005, the co-author of the egregious PATRIOT act - Michael Chertoff - became the new secretary of the Deparment of Homeland Security." Documents named in the corpus: PATRIOT act; Deparment of Homeland Security. Cross-sourced to en.wikipedia.org, motherjones.com, theintercept.com — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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PATRIOT Actco-author of the legislation — does not establish: It does not establish any formal command relationship between the PATRIOT Act and the pandemic strategy.
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Chertoff Groupperson moving between bodies (left DHS to head the Chertoff Group) — does not establish: That the Chertoff Group held any contract, funding line, or formal inst
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