Michael Chertoff is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Presidents George W. Bush and (for one day) Barack Obama, and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act
He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant US Attorney General
He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005
Since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as senior of counsel at the Washington, DC law firm of Covington & Burling
He also co-founded the Chertoff Group, a risk-management and security consulting company, which employs several senior officials not only from his time as Secretary of Homeland Security (like Hon. Paul A. Schneider, former deputy secretary of DHS), but also from the time of the Obama administration (like Mark Weatherford, former deputy under-secretary of DHS), as well as Michael Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency
Chertoff was also elected as Chairman of BAE Systems for a three-year term, beginning May 1, 2012
Chertoff co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Immigration Task Force
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