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September 02, 2005
In Over Its Head
It's still repugnant to accuse President Bush of not caring about the citizens of New Orleans. But saying that his administration, and especially his beloved Department of Homeland Security, were farcically unprepared for a long-term urban catastrophe? That will be common knowledge by Monday.
Chertoff's Department of Homeland Security demonstrated today that it could organize an impressive press conference in Washington, lining up every participating civilian or military service from the Coast Guard to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to promise its cooperation. But on the ground in Louisiana, where it counts, DHS is turning out to be the sum of its inefficient parts. The department looks like what its biggest critics predicted: a new level of bureaucracy grafted onto a collection of largely ineffectual under-agencies.
| By mesh | 12:40 PM
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