All in the Family

Ran across this guy who is currently top lawyer at the US Department of Homeland Security. His name is Philip J. Perry and he has held a handful of interesting positions recently, including acting Attorney General and member of the Senate's Special Investigation of Campaign Finance Abuses. What his bio doesn't mention is that he's Dick Cheney's son-in-law. It seems he recently spent time (between appointments?) at a D.C. law firm lobbying DHS for corporate clients, just before joining the department. Even growing up in Louisiana did not prepare me for this sort of Banana Republic stuff.