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...toll may be much lower than initially feared. In the early days of the crisis, Mayor Ray Nagin predicted that New Orleans and its environs would see 10,000 dead. But by Saturday fewer than 200 bodies had been found, leading retired U.S.M.C. Colonel Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland-security director, to declare that "the numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions" of Nagin and others. Ebbert says it will take authorities two weeks to make a reliable estimate of the casualties, and the precise figure will take longer. Minyard says identifying each and every...
Honoré seems uniquely qualified for the task. Until June 2004, he was the Standing Joint Force Headquarters--Homeland Security commander, responsible for studying a national response plan to a weapons-of-mass-destruction attack as well as for the onslaught of storms like Katrina. The office had conducted a study of what New Orleans should do after a direct hit by a massive hurricane. It concluded, says Honoré, that "there would be a lot of water" but never took into account levees bursting. A plan was in place to evacuate the city, he says as he surveys the detritus...
...government's disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina, even removing the embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is proving to be a tortured, drawn-out affair. Precisely one week after George W. Bush publicly commended FEMA's Michael Brown for "doing a heck of a job," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff sent the deer-in-headlights leader back to Washington and put Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen in charge of relief efforts...
...need to start thinking of homeland security the way we think of national security, Ervin and others argue. That would mean billions more. But it also might mean a chain of command that made more sense. No one can say the military is functioning seamlessly these days, but there is, at least, someone in charge...
...melting birthday cake. Like a scene out of a Michael Moore mockumentary, he was heading into a long-planned Medicare round table at a local country club, joking that he had "spiced up" his entourage by bringing the First Lady, then noting to the audience that he had phoned Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff from Air Force One. "I said, 'Are you working with the Governor?'" Bush recounted. "He said, 'You bet we are.'" But the President was not talking about the killer storm. He was talking about immigration, and the Governor was Arizona...