For what?
I guess the FEDS are supposed to make life and death decisions based on MSM reports now, huh. I would assume Chertoff and Brown would not have been sitting around eating potato chips watching CNN.
Some people live in fantasyland.
It's been stated in the past that staffers sit in the basement of the White House and monitor Free Republic...I don't know if it is staffers or if it's even at the White House...But you can rest assured that gov't agents of one stripe or another monitor FR as well as numerous other political web sites...
Having said that, it would be total and complete foolishness if Chertoff did not have someone monitoring news reports...And we well know that our gov't monitors news broadcasts and publications in the Mideast and beyond...
I think the foolishness is to assume Homeland Security does not monitor Fox, Cnn, etc...I surely would...