Allbaugh said that before they rolled FEMA into HSD...the FEMA Director was in constant contact with the POTUS...and could just call when he needed to get help or tell the POTUS of conditions and such,...
Now that it is in the HSD...the Fema Director is so far down the totem pole...that there is no direct contact anymore...
MY TAKE: the 9/11 families and the 9/11 Commission, and the libs in Congress were SO SET on starting this monster department in the first place, and unfortunately, Bush went along (probably against his own common sense)...
and NOW...all of the ones that wanted this are blaming probably the one person that KNEW it wouldn't work...
JMHO, of course.
Homeland Security Department was planned 5 years in advance of 9/11. 9/11 was the excuse to implement it.