Mr. Chertoff's charmed life

[Algorem]

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/OPINION02/602090312

Article published Thursday, February 9, 2006

POLITICAL and civic reputations have taken a great tumble since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city of New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast, but one official has escaped responsibility for the federal government's miserable response to a widely predicted and surely preventable event - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Oh, for the days of Harry Truman, who kept a reminder on his Oval Office desk that "the buck stops here." Mr. Chertoff fired the luckless Michael D. Brown, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, even though Mr. Brown reported to the secretary...

The General Accountability Office, an independent investigative agency, said in a preliminary report that Mr. Chertoff had failed to move quickly to mobilize resources despite advance warning that Katrina was likely to be a devastating storm.

Yet there was Mr. Chertoff, beaming at President Bush as he and other Cabinet officers awaited the State of the Union message, which devoted almost no attention to hurricane reconstruction. Why does this high-ranking official have such a Teflon shield in the face of one of the worst federal disaster responses in U,S. history?...

[DemInDistress]

1. They (neocons) control the government...they control MSM

they control SCOTUS and even the Vatican..lol

[JeffR]

2. Watch for Chertoff

To get a Medal of Freedom. It'll happen.

[rodeodance]

4. wonder if bush would risk this?

[Skittles]

5. if Uncle Dick and Uncle Karl told him to do it

bush would do it

[rodeodance]

3. Chertoff got a bit tarnished by Brownie today that is for sure.