Bush appointed his own Homeland Security Advisor, Frances Townsend, to "investigate" the response to Katrina. Again, in the announcement, sticking to message and talking points, Townsend will look into "what went right and what went wrong" in the investigation, according to spokesman Trent Duffy, story
HERE.
"The president said he wanted to hold people accountable. This is one of the many ways in which he will do that," the spokesman said.
Forgive me if I don't believe him.
First of all, he chooses someone involved in the problem to investigate the problem. Blanco actually called Townsend, according to Time Magazine, seeking help from the Federal Government. See dkos diary on this
HERE
Second of all, Townsend does not have an emergency/natural disaster planning background. See her bio HERE. Some of her background is as follows...
She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for
Combating Terrorism. Ms. Townsend came to the White House from the U. S. Coast Guard, where she had served as
Assistant Commandant for Intelligence. Prior to that, Ms. Townsend spent 13 years at the U. S. Department of Justice in a variety of senior positions, her last assignment as
Counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy. Ms. Townsend began her
prosecutorial career in 1985, serving as an
Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1988, she joined the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York where she focused on international organized crime and white-collar crime cases. In 1991, she worked in the Office of the Attorney General to assist in establishing the newly created Office of International Programs, the predecessor to the Executive Office for National Security.
They appoint a person in charge of crime and terrorism to look at why FEMA didn't work. The outrages continue.