what about this, michael chertoff in the corporation's he is connected to?he now runs his chertoff group, which has a lot of people from homeland security to have gone into the private sector. one company they were advising in 2009, 2010 was rapiscan, the maker of these x-ray body scanners. rapiscan and the tsa say what was consulting on was international contracts and nothing domestic, nothing having to do with the scanners. i found some freedom of information request asking for emails. it turns out secretary chertoff did not use e-mail when he was at homeland security. i have other emails and there was no smoking gun that shows he had a role. we know he supported this within the agency. we don't know that is profiting directly from the scanners. what we do know is for a long, long time, there was a lot of opposition about the scanners for privacy reasons, for safety reasons. all around 2006, there was a big ramp up of a lobbying campaign by both companies, rapiscan and l-3. there were big contributions, a political action committees set up. they started ga

national policy must be challenged" former dni, mike mcconnell, former homeland security secretary, michael chertoff and former deputfens w lin noted ability of cyber terrorists to cripple -- cripple -- our critical infrastructure. they sounded an even more urgent alarm about the threat of economic cyberel espionage. citing a report by office of national counterintelligence executive, the of the catastrophic impact that cyber espionage, particularly that pursued by china, could have on our economy and competitiveness. they estimated that the cost easily means billions of dollars and millions of jobs. this threat is all the more menacing because it is being pursued by a global competitor, seeking to steal the research and development of american firms to undermine our economic leadership. the evidence of our cyber security vulnerability is overwhelming. it compels us to act now. some members have called for yet more studies. even more hearings, additional markups. in other words, more delay. the fact is since 2005 alone, our committee alone has held 10 hearings on the cyber throat, including today's

nonsense with the charity scanners where michael chertoff is making thirty four million dollars as a lobbyist so in these absurd x. ray machines and and all this security theater i mean i've i've been to two gigs with the president you know the correspondents' dinner and there was something else where he was there and i was in a meeting with joe biden a while ago and you just walk through a magnetometer that's it it's like. this has to be here you know what i don't think i'm no fan of the t.s.a. of a same time while we're talking about things like trayvon i don't know about this vigilante and i think that it's important you know to passengers be aware and things like that but i mean i think it's a little bit iffy to be talking about the land here in the same time as headlines are taught you think if your enemy isn't a pilot comes i would not be not right or wrong not that i'm not are you about that in terms of making policy i don't know if you want to build policy around that land here but i guess what we've done though i mean isn't that what we've done because if they don't you know

what meryl did not say what i want everyone to know, michael chertoff, her husband is also the chairman on the committee of tribunal. as she said i'm the director of the genocide prevention program at the museum which has really been an intrical part of the museum's mission since we opened our doors 20 years ago. if you go upstairs and after you go through our permanent exhibition on the holocaust you'll come to our interactive insulation and the of the genocide of the darfur and rwanda and we're working public and policymaker attention on the ongoing problem of genocide in our time. i would like to thank our partners this evening, first of all our new partner at the aspen institute and we're also joined this evening by the u.s. institute of peace which is really a very close and trusted partner for the museum. one current initiative that we are working on with the usip which i would like to highlight is our joint working group on the responsibility to protect which is co-chaired by secretary madeleine albright and ambassador rich williamson and it's a bipartisan group. as some of you k

what meryl did not say was that michael chertoff, her husband, is also the chairman on the committee of conscience and we enjoy working with the chertoffs in general so thank you, meryl. i'm the director of the genocide program at the holocaust museum which is the mission since we opened our doors 20 years ago. if you go upstairs and after you go through our permanent exhibition on the holocaust you'll come to our interactive installation which focuses on the genocide of rwanda and in darfur and we are working on a lot of different levels and a lot of different ways to really focus public and policymaker attention on the ongoing problem of genocide in our time. i would like to thank our partners this evening, first of all, our new partnerships the aspen institute and we're also aside this evening by the u.s. institute of peace which is really a very close and trusted partner for the museum. one current initiative that we are working on with the usip which would like to highlight is our joint working group on the responsibility to protect which is cochaired by secretary madeleine albr

. >> michael chertoff said he was the secretary of the homeland security, and set me has been beforehis committee, as he had 1 foot in the door and 1 foot about four years ago testified about the threat posed by terrorist organizations on the united states and the then secretary chertoff said we need to maintain the focus on al qaeda, a very shining object and a real threat, but he said the real threat is hezbollah. hezbollah has with al qaeda could only dream of having. they have established relationships with the most powerful international joint trafficking and organized crime syndicates it faced by law enforcement, and they obviously maintain close relations with other is a committed terrorist organizations around the globe. whoever told you hezbollah is now 15 cities and think they woefully underestimated. part of the problem that we've got is we don't really know and that is what worries me a great deal. congressmen lungren, you brought out the importance of connecting the dots. that is important but what we need to get the business of is actually producing more dots to come ba