chertoff, lying fuck

* "Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin" or he is lying. (link)

* timmeh asked chertoff if he (and others) is going to resign :-)

* lets not forget that Chertoff was complicit in torture and the undermining of the constituion just 3 years ago (link)

* laura rosen: "Just heard snippets of the Sunday talk shows, but DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff has emerged as a truly sinister character, so refusing to step up to the plate and assume any responsibility for leading the department that certainly was the major player in the abysmal failure that took place in New Orleans. It's astonishing he doesn't have the moral impulse to offer an apology, an expression of remorse for those lost and suffering, much less his resignation. This is a man who should not sleep at night, for the rest of his days." (link)

* "An Angry 'Times-Picayune' Calls for Firing of FEMA Chief and Others in Open Letter to President On Sunday" (link)

* "The president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, Aaron Broussard, just issued an emotional appeal on NBC’s Meet the Press. By the end, he was completely broken down, sobbing uncontrollably" (link)

* wolcott: "A question: Where the eff is Dick Cheney? With Rumsfeld, Condi, and Laura Bush making cameo appearances in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, his abscence is all the more conspicuous, raising questions in my mind if no one else's about the state of his health. If he's not ill, his status as inhuman monster is confirmed."

* "Former ( International Arabian Horse Association) board member Karl V. Hart of Florida alleges that in 2000 Brown improperly accepted a check for nearly $50,000 from a prominent breeder and put it toward his own legal defense for his work as commissioner." (link)

* wapo lied and said that LA didnt declare state of emergency - but they did so *before* hurricanic landfall (link)