AP Wire: White House, Chertoff faulted over Katrina

[PhilipShore]

Miami Herald
Associated Press
White House, Chertoff faulted over Katrina
Feb. 01, 2006

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13767748.htm

WASHINGTON - The White House and Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff failed to provide decisive action when Hurricane Katrina struck, congressional investigators said Wednesday in a stinging assessment of slow federal relief efforts.

The White House had no clear chain of command in place, investigators with the Government Accountability Office said, laying much of the blame on President Bush for not designating a single official to coordinate federal decision-making for the Aug. 29 storm. Bush has accepted responsibility for the government's halting response, but for the most part then-FEMA Director Michael Brown, who quit days after the hurricane hit, has been the public face of the failures.

"That's up to the president of the United States," GAO Comptroller General David M. Walker told reporters after being asked whether Chertoff should have been the lead official during the emergency.

[babylonsister]

1. CNN also just covered this; I'm glad Certoff is getting the attention

he so justly deserves.

[Wickerman]

2. wow! Bush, a poor manager! Whodda thunk it?

not anyone who worked with him when he ran oil companies or catering bidnesses. :eyes:

Come on, George, release all the documents!

[donco6]

3. When someone "takes responsibility" . . .

that usually means they'll fall on their sword. Can we expect that from George? Nah. He doesn't know what responsibility means.

[debbierlus]

4. Bush is the poster boy for failure

Look up failure in the dictionary - there's the chimp

And, every other cliche -

TOTAL FAILURE

[Moderator]

5. You duplicated yourself

This is a duplicate topic of your own post. Posts in LBN are organized by topics. Feel free to add this to the older post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2077990