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Chertoff's 'Gut Feeling' about a Possible Terrorist Attack
Michael Chertoff has created a furor by telling the Chicago Tribune editorial board he has a " gut feeling " that the US could face a terror attack this summer. However, the Secretary of Homeland Security refused to be more specific, and has not increased the color-coded alert level or told possible first-responders to be prepared. Bruce…
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readMichael Chertoff has created a furor by telling the Chicago Tribune editorial board he has a "gut feeling" that the US could face a terror attack this summer. However, the Secretary of Homeland Security refused to be more specific, and has not increased the color-coded alert level or told possible first-responders to be prepared. Bruce Hoffman, who studied terrorism at Rand, is Professor of the Security Studies program at Georgetown University.
