It's a Catch-22 for sure.
The federal government are not first responders. However, what happens if state and local officials (as well as FEMA) bungle the case, as they did with Katrina?
what SHOULD have happened this time. what Brown is doing right now in his testimony. GO ON OFFENSE AND BLAME THE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE. rather then taking the blame for something the federal government didn't do.
The bungling was all Nagin and Blank-O