[lbo-talk] Chertoff: "Katrina Scenario Did Not Exist"

[Autoplectic]

On 9/4/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> 
> >I know Chertoff slightly. I think he's being honest. I
> >doh't think he'd tell what he thought to be a lie if
> >prompted ina  briefing. He was, among other things, a
> >(really good) US Attorney and a federal appellate
> >judge, two things that give one an allergy to bald
> >faced lying.
> 
> Justin, what he's saying just isn't credible. Precisely what happened
> in NO was widely forecast. FEMA had to have known it. How could he
> say that they had no idea of the suffering in the convention center
> when it had been all over the TV for days? If he's not lying, he's an
> idiot, and you can't be an idiot and be a US attorney, can you?
> 
> Doug

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It's not so much that he's lying or even that he's an idiot, it's that
the skills he has are simply irrelevant to dealing with what happened.
They don't teach civil/environmental engineering or logistics or
operations research at law school or in seminars for DA's. In that
sense, he's caught up in a network of incompetences and dissembly
driven by our kakistocrat-in-chief.