5.16.2006

TPM Muckraker: Chertoff Then and Now

TPM Muckraker ably points out that despite President's Bush "bestest" plan to militarize the U.S.-Mexico border with underpaid, overworked, and thoroughly discouraged U.S. Army reservists, titular head of Department of Homeland (in)Security Chertoff said six months ago that putting the reservists to work on the border would be silly and oh, so very expensive.