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Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows
Knight Ridder ^ | 9/13/05 | Jonathan S. Landay, Alison Young and Shannon McCaffrey

Posted on 09/14/2005 9:48:57 AM PDT by lowbridge

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1 posted on 09/14/2005 9:49:01 AM PDT by lowbridge
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bump


2 posted on 09/14/2005 9:51:36 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
RAT bait and switch.
3 posted on 09/14/2005 9:52:08 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: lowbridge

And evil BUSH is in NYC @ the UN instead of the outter banks, that S O B!~}


4 posted on 09/14/2005 9:52:15 AM PDT by funkywbr
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Even if Chertoff signed off 2 seconds after the hurricane passed, it still doesn't explain why Blanco refused them access to the Superdome.


5 posted on 09/14/2005 9:52:23 AM PDT by Bommer
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Yep. This won't be the "story that brings the Feds down".


6 posted on 09/14/2005 9:55:06 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: lowbridge

Left now upset that Bush administration did not declare absolute dictatorship, pushing aside the Democratic regimes and setting it self up as emperor of Black New Orleans?


7 posted on 09/14/2005 9:57:18 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: lowbridge

Brown's head was given to them, now they are moving up the ladder to Chertoff. Predictable, which is why you never give them an inch from the outset.


8 posted on 09/14/2005 9:57:20 AM PDT by oceanview
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But according to a memo obtained by Knight Ridder, Chertoff didn't shift that power to Brown until late afternoon or evening on Aug. 30, about 36 hours after Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi. That same memo suggests that Chertoff may have been confused about his lead role in disaster response and that of his department.

Considering the shakeup of bureaucracies by placing FEMA under Homeland Security, is there any wonder that people were confused about who was supposed to do what? How many DemocRATS insisted on creating the Department of Homeland Security and putting FEMA under it.

9 posted on 09/14/2005 9:58:44 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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"Even if Chertoff signed off 2 seconds after the hurricane passed, it still doesn't explain why Blanco refused them access to the Superdome."

Yep, and you won't hear a thing about Nagin or Blanco and their lack of response and outright refusal to let relief efforts in.

Even the so-called 'investigation' being pushed by some in Congress only focuses on the Federal Governments response and nothing at all is being investigated regarding the City or NO or the State of LA's response.


10 posted on 09/14/2005 9:59:11 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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Relentless aren't they.


11 posted on 09/14/2005 10:01:16 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If the dome was the hull of a slave ship. Ray Nagin was the slaver and Bush is Abraham Lincoln)
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If Chertoff goes, so should every freaking member of the bloody legislative branch who voted for that bloated charlie foxtrot.


12 posted on 09/14/2005 10:02:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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So, he was supposed to anticipate that the hurricane would hit NO and he was supposed to know that right after the hurricane hit the levees were going to break the next day? He issued the order when the flooding was announced. The levees broke Monday night and were noticed Tueday the 30th. That's when the order was signed. What on earth do these people want?


13 posted on 09/14/2005 10:03:11 AM PDT by McGavin999 (We're a First World Country with a Third World Press (Except for Hume & Garrett ))
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That's 36 hours after Katrina made landfall, not 36 hours after he realized that the attempts to contain the flood had failed, not 36 hours after he realized that LA National Guard and Red Cross workers were unable to get relief into NO and not 36 hours after violence made more delays inevitable.

THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN ANOTHER HIT PIECE TRYING TO BLAME LA'S AND NO'S MISTAKES ON THE FEDS.


14 posted on 09/14/2005 10:04:47 AM PDT by ekwd
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What on earth do these people want?

They want it all,
They want it all,
They want it all,
And they want it now.

15 posted on 09/14/2005 10:06:07 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: lowbridge

Sorry, Knight Ridder, I don't believe you.


16 posted on 09/14/2005 10:06:14 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: lowbridge

Would the next scapegoat please stand and be counted.

The dems are like the Palestinians, Give them gaza they want Jerusalem/
Give the Dems Brown they want Bush.

Stop cowtowing to the partisan hacks.


17 posted on 09/14/2005 10:07:28 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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What on earth do these people want?

More scalps from the Bush administration. The resignation of Brown made them bloodthirsty for more.

18 posted on 09/14/2005 10:07:31 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: oceanview
This is what happens when you put lawyers (Chertoff,Brown) in charge of life and death situations.

Dithering and CYAing.

19 posted on 09/14/2005 10:08:41 AM PDT by sinkspur (It is time for those of us who have much to share with those who have nothing.)
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To: McGavin999
What on earth do these people want?

NOTICE how this report "CONVENIENTLY" melds the STORM and the FLOOD together. Citing 36 hours after the storm hit rather than a WHOLE 12 hours after the FLOODING started??

This is SPIN and it is being reproted as FACT, typical of Knight Ridder and the rest of the LEFTIST MEDIA in this nation.

20 posted on 09/14/2005 10:08:49 AM PDT by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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