CNN Anderson Cooper Is Chertoff to Blame? Chertoff Memo Coming

[WiseButAngrySara]

Up now!!!

[RSchewe]

1. Glad he is mentioning the memos. We had a few threads on that

yesterday.

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. There's one I just read on the Greatest Page. I'll post the link...n/t

[zoeb]

2. WaPo or maybe another paper did a story on this

saying Chertoff was in charge and he didn't know it. It was supposedly two days later when he put Brown in charge. It looks like the inept Brown was also their sacrificial lamb.

[achtung_circus]

4. Or a trial balloon

It looks like the inept Brown was also their sacrificial lamb.
A trial ballon
in a negative sort of way.

[zoeb]

7. Good point! n/t

[blm]

6. No way was it the Post - it was Knight-Ridder - one of the few news teams

with integrity.

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. Here's the DU link to the story. Anderson didn't add much else, but DID

cover it, and will be following Chertoff's role (as negligent mass murderer!)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1778603


Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows

BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY, ALISON YOUNG AND SHANNON MCCAFFREY

Knight Ridder Newspapers


"WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who was relieved of his duties and resigned earlier this week, federal documents reviewed by Knight Ridder show

Even before the storm struck the Gulf Coast, Chertoff could have ordered federal agencies into action without any request from state or local officials. Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown had only limited authority to do so until about 36 hours after the storm hit, when Chertoff designated him as the "principal federal official" in charge of the storm....

But Chertoff - not Brown - was in charge of managing the national response to a catastrophic disaster, according to the National Response Plan, the federal government's blueprint for how agencies will handle major natural disasters or terrorist incidents. An order issued by President Bush in 2003 also assigned that responsibility to the homeland security director."

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/politic...