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Remarks by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff to American Society of Newspaper Editors

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Remarks by Secretary Michael Chertoff to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., Release Date: January 18, 2007.

  • “I think we owe you clarity about who is an authoritative source. I think we ourselves have realized, in part, as part of our after-action on Katrina and some other things that have happened, that we have to be very straight on what is authoritative. And I think we need to build those relationships and that understanding and debate that ahead of time, because if we wind up without having that common understanding before an emergency, we could find ourselves making judgments about what we tell people that will have really serious, life-altering consequences that can’t be taken back. And they will have real operational consequences.”
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