And, yes, I DO take it personally: I was focused on Katrina like I've not been focused on anything for a long time

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Monday, February 13, 2006

I was focused on Katrina like I've not been focused on anything for a long time

and, imho, these denials are empty, false and pathetic...

The Bush administration on Monday pushed back hard against Katrina-response criticism leveled by ex-disaster agency chief Michael Brown and congressional investigators.

"I reject outright the suggestion that President Bush was anything less than fully involved," said White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff "unequivocally and strongly" rejected suggestions that his agency was preoccupied with terror threats at the expense of preparing for natural disasters.