Chertoff is the one who mangled the hurricane response, not Brown

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Disaster Buck Stopped at Chertoff, Not Brown

by Jessica Azulay (bio)

Protocols enacted last year place responsibility for federal disaster management on the DHS chief’s desk – what’s more, they give no indication that he can pass that authority on to the FEMA director.

Sep 15 - According to rules enacted by the Bush administration, the hailstorm of criticism targeted at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be spread to the head of the Department of Homeland Security. Though FEMA’s director at the time, Michael Brown, has been widely blamed for the glacial and inadequate federal response to Katrina, December 2004 protocols put in place by the Department of Homeland Security clearly show Brown’s boss, Michael Chertoff, was technically in charge from the beginning.

According to the National Response Plan, enacted to coordinate the federal handling of terrorist attacks or natural disasters, primary responsibility for coordinating aid and support to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina sat squarely on the shoulders of the Homeland Security secretary. A DHS memo from Chertoff shows that he did not put Brown in charge until two days after the hurricane slammed into Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

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1. We can't stop until we get BUSH

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2. Chertoff is a fool

and he must go. Anything can happen in this country and he is still in charge of emergency paperwork over search and rescue.
We are not safe with him there.