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Former Homeland Security Adviser Explains Why He Admires the UAE's Dictators
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2010-08-13 03:00
In a recent New York Times op-ed piece, Richard Falkenrath, who served as deputy homeland security adviser in the Bush administration and now works for former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's consulting firm, explains why the BlackBerry ban that the United Arab Emirates announced last week "met with approval, admiration and perhaps even a touch of envy" from "law enforcement investigators and intelligence officers."
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According to the bio at the bottom of the nauseating op-ed, "Richard A. Falkenrath, a principal of the Chertoff Group, a risk-management consultancy, is a former deputy commissioner for counterterrorism for the New York Police Department and deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush." Strange that they left out the final sentence: "He is also a complete d*ck."
A very nice, succinct retort at Reason, I might add.