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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (119)	9/14/2005 9:46:18 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2253

When terrorists plant a nuclear device in your house and then throw some biological stuff in your garden, the feds are not going to ask you, "may I take care of this matter for you?". No, they don't. The reason is because the feds have primary responsibility for terrorism but not for hurricanes. That can certainly be changed if, after after-event evaluation, it is deemed the best course of action. But at the time of Katrina, it was what it was. somebody screwed up. The plans didn't work. No question about it. But the deferral to the state by the state, as called for by the existing protocols, was not one of the screw-ups. Following protocols cannot legitimately be construed as a NO screw-up. Maybe it's better to change the federalism paradigm for hurricanes going forward, but that's a bigger question and a separate question from the sorry NO plan or the sorry NO execution. The sorry plan and the sorry execution--those were screw-ups.