Not surprising at all ~
What is NOT surprising is W's support of the PC-Idiot-Useless-POS, Chertoff and his refusal to consider firing him--long overdue.
Given the way DHS put together it's staff here in DC (hiring people with phoney degrees, and trailing baggage from Clinton scandals ~ for example, plus the assorted leftover sex criminals from Time magazine), I'm not surprised at anything.
Chertoff probably knows he has a big problem, but who does he fire first.