Former NYPD chief to head Homeland Security
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WASHINGTON: Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who helped rally the cityâs police force and citizens following the September 11 terror attacks, is President George W Bushâs pick to run the Homeland Security Department.
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WASHINGTON (CBS/AP)- Tom Ridge&#39;s successor as chief of the Homeland Security Department will have to unify a sprawling bureaucracy, a deadly serious job where failure could put the United States at risk of another terror attack.
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Federal judge Michael Chertoff, who  testified against torture and preached the need to protect  civil liberties, won unanimous Senate confirmation on Tuesday  to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department.
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Bernard Kerik's nomination to run  the Homeland Security Department shows President Bush wants the  no-nonsense former police chief to settle turf wars in the  sprawling bureau and better coordinate its wide-ranging  responsibilities, analysts said on Friday.
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President George W. Bush picked former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to be US Homeland Security Secretary, according to administration officials.
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President Bush nominated federal judge Michael Chertoff as the new homeland security chief Tuesday, completing the second-term Cabinet with a former prosecutor who recently called for a new look at the tough terrorist detainee laws that he helped craft after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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President Bush on Tuesday chose federal appeals court judge Michael Chertoff to be his new Homeland Security chief, turning to a former federal prosecutor who helped craft the early war on terror strategy.
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President Bush has picked former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik as his homeland security secretary and an announcement is expected as early as Friday, Republican officials said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush has nominated a former New York City police commissioner to head the department that oversees the security of the United States.
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The Homeland Security Department picked an industry information security specialist Monday as its cybersecurity chief, filling a job that has had no permanent director for a year.
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By Warren Vieth and Edwin Chen WASHINGTON, Los Angeles Times. Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on Friday abruptly withdrew himself from consideration as the United States&#39; next homeland security
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Tom Ridge, who shepherded the largest reorganization of federal government since the World War II era, will leave behind a Homeland Security Department that has
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Former police commissioner and U.S. homeland security nominee Bernard Kerik said today that he'll leave Giuliani Partners, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's consulting firm.
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President Bush picked former police commissioner Bernard Kerik, the steady former military man who helped New York get back on its feet after the Sept. 11 terror attack, to head the federal agency charged with making sure it never happens again.
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President Bush will announce former  New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik as his nominee to  become homeland security secretary at a White House ceremony on  Friday morning, White House officials said.
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Washington -- Tom Ridge, who as the first secretary of homeland security led the post-Sept. 11 effort to protect the United States from a terrorist attack, announced Tuesday that he will leave his job no later than Feb. 1.
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A longtime federal emergency official says Bernard Kerik (KEHR&#39;-ihk) will &quot;move the country in the right direction&quot; as head of the US Department of Homeland Security.