[carlr]

"It shows that the president is running the disaster, the White House is running it as opposed to Brown or Chertoff," Haddow said. Brown "is a convenient fall guy. He's not the problem really. The problem is a system that was marginalized."

And that conclusion was reached how?
That paragraph tells all one needs to know as to the motivation behind the article.

[Steve_Seattle]

"It shows that the president is running the disaster, the White House is running it as opposed to Brown or Chertoff," Haddow said. Brown "is a convenient fall guy. He's not the problem really. The problem is a system that was marginalized."

Typical damned if you do, damned if you don't. If Bush hadn't met with his staff, hadn't formed a hurricane respose group, they'd say he was negligent and asleep at the wheel; but because he did meet and did form a group, they're now saying he "marginalized" the system. How I detest these people!