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Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff hasn't been getting a lot of good press lately, with highly critical evalutions of his department's performance in the Katrina response effort and in vetting the Dubai ports deal. Now he's starting to bite back at the media. Here's Chertoff at the National Chemical Security Forum today:

Chemistry is a little bit of a technical subject, and I read in The Washington Post this morning that I was being a little bit too technical in the words I was using when I spoke yesterday. This is a group that I think will understand big words. If members of the press need help in translation afterwards, I'll be happy to do that.