Chertoff's Excuse Du Jour

[Drocket]

SEC'Y CHERTOFF: Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, "New Orleans Dodged The Bullet," because if you recall the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse. It was on Tuesday that the levee--may have been overnight Monday to Tuesday--that the levee started to break. And it was midday Tuesday that I became aware of the fact that there was no possibility of plugging the gap and that essentially the lake was going to start to drain into the city. I think that second catastrophe really caught everybody by surprise.[/ur]

This guy is in charge of the Dept. of Homeland Security, with thousands of people reporting to him. There were people on CNN, talking to refugees begging for help. And this jackass's best source of information is a newspaper. And apparently, the wonderful headlines in the papers was good enough that he didn't bother to question it, or call up and ask anyone in the area what was going on. Instead, he sat in his cushy office, reassured that everything was going just swimmingly.

If Bush has a single ounce of human goodness in his body, he'll fire this man within the next week. I'm not holding my breath.

 

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[quote name='Drocket']This guy is in charge of the Dept. of Homeland Security, with thousands of people reporting to him. There were people on CNN, talking to refugees begging for help. And this jackass's best source of information is a newspaper. And apparently, the wonderful headlines in the papers was good enough that he didn't bother to question it, or call up and ask anyone in the area what was going on. Instead, he sat in his cushy office, reassured that everything was going just swimmingly.

If Bush has a single ounce of human goodness in his body, he'll fire this man within the next week. I'm not holding my breath.[/QUOTE]

This administration has been plagued with incompetence from the start. From "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in the United States" with Condoleeza Rice, to Rumsfeld with the Abu Ghraib scandal, to the Bush administration cutting funding with the Army corp of engineers, to the CIA leak, to the pre-war intellegence with the Iraq intelligence, to this --- how much more can this country take?