Probe Of Chertoff Urged
By Jim Traficant
Many of you have read Michael Collins Piper’s book Target Traficant. Michael has a gift of expression utilizing the printed (and spoken) word.*
Reading the book, you begin to understand how obsessed our government and the Justice Department was in removing yours truly from Congress. They could not bear my voice reverberating around the Capitol completely insulated by the speech and debate clause of our Constitution.
Our government was so pleased with the Traficant conviction that they promoted Justice Department official Michael Chertoff to the No. 1 position of the powerful and important Homeland Security Department. The boss. The big guy. Big shot. Chertoff “got” Traficant. That wasn’t all. Cleveland Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Morford was elevated to the No. 2 position in the Department of Justice. In fact, Morford became the acting attorney general after the departure of A.G. Alberto Gonzalez. Morford and Chertoff “got” Traficant.
Well, now the chickens seem to be coming home to roost. What is Chertoff’s new gig? “The Chertoff Group.” Chertoff now represents companies, many of which do business with the United States government...
