Resolute & vigilant defiance

Michael Chertoff: Stop Fomenting Panic—That’s What Terrorists Want

During the past decade, my security colleagues and successors succeeded in strengthening our security and disrupting a significant number of terrorist plots in our homeland, including an attempted bombing in Times Square. Tragically, on very few occasions—such as the Boston Marathon bombing—terrorists have succeeded. Yet after each of these events, Americans drew together in defiance of the enemy.