'Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly"
Surely they misheard this quote..It makes absolutely no sense..
Perhaps someone can translate?
It's simple. They are afraid that feds will say before they took control on Friday, it was a local problem and they bungled it. If there is a clear transfer of power on a certain date, that becomes the demarkation of blame. Clearly things were much better on Friday and Saturday then they were on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Governor is afraid that if it looks like she was in control on the bad days, she will get blamed. The truth that she WAS in control is secondary to being blamed for it.
What she should have been worried about is establishing central control and saving the lives of the Citizens of New Orleans. Instead she's worried about blame. It's pathetic.