[Snidely Whiplash]

Chertoff and Brown are lawyers. They were more concerned about legalisms and bureaucratic turf issues.

Aye. Apparently the White House staff spent no small amount of time Friday & Saturday before the storm hit dithering about technical legalities and stupid jurisdictional issues. Sure, things improved once the President got back to Washington, but that was, what, Tuesday? Damage had already been done.

SW

[kabar]

Yup. GWB missed a great opportunity.