The latest warning to come from the Bush Administration is straight out of the mouth of Michael Chertoff. The Homeland Security Chief, well known for his part in the Hurricane Katrina debacle made a few statements regarding terrorism today before departing for Britain. One of these remarks included 'clean-skin' terrorists.
From The Daily Telegraph:
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Michael Chertoff, who arrives in Britain tomorrow for talks with John Reid, the Home Secretary, said the US was determined to build extra defences against so-called "clean skin" terrorists from Europe."We need to build layers of protection, and I don't think we totally want to rely upon the fact that a foreign government is going to know that one of their citizens is suspicious and is going to be coming here," he said.
Mr Chertoff insisted that the US required additional information, including email addresses and credit card details, to vet European passengers and rejected "the idea that we're going to bargain with the European Union over who's going to come into the United States" under the visa waiver scheme.
So if a terrorist doesn't have clean skin, then what? Did the others not take a shower recently? These remarks are hardly appropriate and especially not in the manner in which he said them. Indirectly referring to people with dark skin as dirty is a disgusting practice that Mr. Chertoff inadvertently revealed about himself.
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