MICHAEL CHERTOFF, SECRETARY OF  THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
INSECURITY
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Security Is Indivisible
By Mark Krikorian, December 12, 2008
We all got a chuckle from the story that the Secret Service let illegal aliens in to clean Chertoff's house.   But the take-home
point is this, from today's Washington Times editorial: "if the system can be fooled by a house cleaner, it can be fooled by a terrorist." As the original Washington Post story noted: "The Secret Service uses workers' ID information to conduct security checks, not immigration checks." But it's a PC fantasy to imagine that we can know who someone is without knowing whether or not he's an illegal alien.