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

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Sun Sep 4 16:27:19 PDT 2005


farmelantj at juno.com wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:35:07 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>

> writes:

>

>> 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?

>

>

> I don't know but I think that the practicing of law has really

> clouded Justin's judgment. I think that most of us here realize that

> lawyers can be and often are liars and crooks. And more than a few

> are idiots and nitwits too. But sometimes fellow lawyers have a hard

> time seeing that.

It depends on the relationship. Some relationships strip off the veneer. I have some knowledge of Chertoff from when he was U.S.Attorney in Jersey. It was a drug money laundering case. I cannot go into detail. He's vile.

john mage



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