Either Chertoff didn't get the memo or the administration is still preposterously behind the curve on this -- which is likely the case since they let W admit on Good Morning America he was ignorant of one of the
TOP 3 KNOWN DISASTER RISKS in the nation.
Chertoff just admitted in his news conference that THERE WERE TWO DISASTERS -- 1) the hurricane, and 2) the levee failure causing flooding. That CANNOT be the spin the administration wants to put on this, because it places their incompetence and culpability in plain sight.
Their spin has to be ONE DISASTER -- a NATURAL disaster, a hurricane which no one could have prevented (although global warming makes even that almost certainly false). Admitting there was a SECOND DISASTER, one resulting largely from neglect and incompetence, hangs the CAUSE of this historic catastrophe around the administration's neck. Woops.