Homeland Security, round 2

From the Times:

Michael Chertoff, a federal judge who was an architect of the administration's approach to fighting terrorism when he was a Justice Department official, was nominated by President Bush today to be the next secretary of homeland security.

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Mr. Chertoff had been the Senate Republicans' chief counsel during the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton's and his wife's business affairs.

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In recent years, he has been best known for helping to craft the Bush administration's anti-terrorism campaign following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Chertoff, who was head of the Justice Department's criminal division, was a proponent of military tribunals to try prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba after the American-led campaign in Afghanistan.

Best to put a witchhunter at the head of the witchhunting department is the logic I guess.