I feel MUCH BETTER after hearing Frances Fragos Townsend's 2 cents worth

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

White House Strongly Defends Katrina Role

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20060213/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_congress_63

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Monday pushed back hard against Katrina-response criticism leveled by ex-disaster agency chief Michael Brown and congressional investigators. "I reject outright the suggestion that President Bush was anything less than fully involved," said White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend.





Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff "unequivocally and strongly" rejected suggestions that his agency was preoccupied with terror threats at the expense of preparing for natural disasters.

Both spoke at a conference of state emergency management directors in suburban Alexandria, Va.

Their rebuttal came as a Republican-written House report blamed government-wide ineptitude for mishandling Hurricane Katrina relief. A report by Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, reached similar conclusions and singled out Chertoff for delays.



White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend pauses during remarks to the National Emergency Management Association Mid-year conference on Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 in Alexandria, Va. Top White House and Homeland Security officials pushed back hard on Monday against criticism of the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina. 'I reject outright the suggestion that President Bush was anything less than fully involved,' said Townsend. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. They're Involved......Now Watch This Swing! nt

[LeftCoast]

2. There go those 'biased' facts again

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