Nagin and Blanco deserve more blame. Of course.
This interview, almost two days after the levee broke, well before President Bush actually interceded and sped up the feds operations, is representative of how Chertoff did not understand the magnitude of what was happening at all.
In this case the democratic locals were not up to the task. They deserve the blame here not Chertoff
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It's not an either/or proposition. Just because the locals are guilty doesn't mean the Feds are innocent and vice versa. If this had happened under a Democrat Administration people here would be calling for Congressional hearings at minimum, and rightly so.
Don't turn a blind eye incompetence just because it happens when the White House is occupied by a Republican.