Brownie calls for Chertoff to resign.

[techs]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/03/katrina.brown/
The former federal emergency director who resigned after the heavily criticized response to Hurricane Katrina admitted Friday that he should have been more forthcoming about problems with the government's response to the storm but faulted the performance of his former boss, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and called for his resignation.

Michael Brown, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was well aware that his agency was overwhelmed during the immediate aftermath of the storm, he told CNN, but blamed a "beltway" mentality that believes that "the American public can't handle the truth" for not making his concerns about the response public.



Is it just me or does Chertoff look like an anorexic survivor?

 

[colonel]

I dont why they got FEMA in the DHS department but someone has to pay for all the inocent death people in New Orleans

 

[Lemon law]

Some two of three months ago I posted a thread that much of the much of the Katrina blame
did rest with Chertoff. Who was Brown's immediate boss and if nothing else should have seen that
Brownie was not doing a hecka of job and stepped in himself.--which did not mean that Brown was not incompetent--he just was not the lone ranger.

We also have to realise that homeland security was created in the hysteria aftermath of 911 with typical GWB admonistration planning. Under Tom Ridge homeland security was somewhat the department of pork distribution with a small division that raised daily flags on security alert levels depending what mood GWB wanted the hysteria level to be on that day.

Once Chertoff took over he took some steps to reorganise the department and was still in that process when Katrina hit. Given it takes some organization for any agency to function---but the point is, when an emergency hit, no one was there to pull out all the stops------all that is still the state of affairs as I write this---plenty of resources exist---just no one seems capable of getting them moved from where they are to where they are needed.

But if terrorists strike at some location in the near future------I sure would not depend on Chertoff to
respond with any kind of effective responce. Its one thing to have policies and proseidures in place.
And quite another to make them work in an emergency life and death situation.--you can't tell someone drowning to wait a few weeks to get help.

Really sad when news organizations were better prepared than our Federal government.---which fiddled while New Orleans drowned.

 

[conjur]

There were plenty calling for Chertoff's resignation back in Sept, myself being one of them.

 

[conehead433]

If we could get everyone in the government to resign we could quit paying them. We wouldn't even notice they were no longer there.

 

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: conjur
There were plenty calling for Chertoff's resignation back in Sept, myself being one of them.

To Conjur,

I highly respect your posts---and if you posted on that subject long before me, I certainly believe you. After all, I did not join until early November.

But the question is still, if I know it, and you know, and even the average lamp post now knows Cherty should resign, why is it only now that this revelation reaches critical mass?

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Lemon law

Originally posted by: conjur
There were plenty calling for Chertoff's resignation back in Sept, myself being one of them.

To Conjur,

I highly respect your posts---and if you posted on that subject long before me, I certainly believe you. After all, I did not join until early November.

But the question is still, if I know it, and you know, and even the average lamp post now knows Cherty should resign, why is it only now that this revelation reaches critical mass?

Because this administration's scandals and political mistakes are like a snowball rolling downhill.

Iraq
Abramoff
Katrina
DeLay
etc.

they are adding up and the media is starting to finally smell blood and grow some nads (albeit very small ones).

But, it does look like Chertoff will soon be "spending more time with family":

Conservative weekly: Chertoff has 'only a few days left'
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Conservat...weekly_Chertoff_has_only_few_0303.html

According to an article at a top Conservative weekly, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has "only a few days left," RAW STORY has found.

On Thursday, former FEMA director Michael D. Brown said that Chertoff deserved to be fired for his performance during Hurricane Katrina, and another official who oversaw the federal response, Matthew Broderick, director of operations for DHS, resigned.

Excerpts from the article written by John Gizzi, Political Editor for Human Events Online:

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In the aftermath of the public revelation of the presidential "teleconference" and mounting criticism of the performance of Michael Chertoff, Administration sources told HUMAN EVENTS today that the secretary of Homeland Security has "only a few days left" in the Bush Cabinet.

As one source acquainted with the former federal prosecutor and U.S. appellate judge said under promise of anonymity, "They will give [Chertoff] a little time so it won't hurt his reputation too much, but he's probably got only a few days left."

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Now, at least one source close to him says the end of his tenure as the nation?s second secretary of Homeland Security is near.

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The rest of the article is at this link.