Surprise! The Republican fear-mongering emanating from Chernoff's churning gut is already producing the intended results:

A flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York Thursday because of what officials said may have been an unfounded security scare.

The scare came on the heels of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's comment earlier this week that he had a "gut feeling" the United States faced a heightened risk of attack this summer.

Fear fear fear fear fear Daddy fear fear Daddy fear.

And to think that I thought haruspication had gone out of fashion with the Roman empire... Read more…

WaPo:

Chertoff Urges Data-Sharing Deal With EU
VENICE, Italy, May 12, 2007 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Pieces of information gathered about airline passengers arriving in the United States can be crucial when least expected to preventing terror attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Saturday as he pushed for a deal with European countries on sharing data.

European government are trying to ensure the deal will not violate their strict privacy laws, a legacy of the continent's history with authoritarian regimes.

Well, thank goodness we've got no history of authoritarian regimes on this continent! Read more…

Chertoff better not eat in any black-owned restaurants in NOLA. Really, the arrogance of these people is stunning at times. It wouldn't surprise me if some overworked, low-level FEMA employee just shot him, the next time he got out of a taxpayer funded hookermobile car.

And we've got to do a much better job, frankly, of how we manage the process of recovery. We still have tens of thousands of people who suffer the lingering effects of Katrina. And as the city of New Orleans and as the state of Mississippi and the state of Louisiana try to recover and rebuild in what is a mammoth task, we have to make sure that FEMA does not become so enmeshed in its own bureaucratic processes sometimes that they lose sight of the need to have simple common sense and humanity in dealing with the public. So we're going to have to continue to crack down and make sure we get this job done.

As Scout points out:

Can someone please give Chertoff an organization chart for DHS so we can remind Michael that FEMA is that little box below YOU. Perhaps you should crack down on yourself Mr. Secretary. Read more…

Terror alerts, terror threats, terror among us, terror without us, terror around us, terror, terror, terror.

Headline from today’s Meet The Press: Terror is a word worn-out from over and inaccurate use; in a word, terror, and all the attached isms have become a bore. Read more…