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Chertoff gave up his lifetime appointment as a federal appellate judge six months ago to become the second Secretary of Homeland Security, taking charge of an agency that was created after 9/11 to protect the nation from terrorism. Chertoff lost friends in the attacks, and those close to him say he took the job because he felt a patriotic duty to protect the homeland. FEMA was just 1 of 23 agencies folded into the massive new department, with its 181,000 employees and $40 billion annual budget. DHS aides insist the department has paid as much attention to preparing...
Does Michael Chertoff at Homeland Security understand...
...failures, Brown has in some ways been a scapegoat for the incompetence of others. After all, as head of FEMA, Brown is just a second-tier manager in the nation's second largest Cabinet agency, the sprawling Department of Homeland Security. From the moment he declared Katrina "an incident of national significance"--a full 36 hours after landfall--the man in charge of the federal response was Brown's boss, DHS Secretary Chertoff...
...attacks." Outlining detailed lines of authority in the event of calamity, the plan "ensures the seamless integration of the Federal Government when an incident exceeds local and state capability." The plan failed miserably, as even Chertoff was admitting by late last week. The problem, says Jim Carafano, a homeland security expert at the Heritage Foundation, is that DHS's plans still assume that state and local authorities will be responsible in the first 72 hours after a catastrophe. "In this case," he says, "the state and local response was wiped out. There was no one to fill the 72-hour...
...Ervin, former inspector general for the DHS, would be a huge improvement. "I am a Republican. I am not one of these people who thinks the answer to everything is more money," says Ervin. "But I do think part of the problem is that we've tried to do Homeland Security on the cheap. We spend $400 billion on the Defense Department. It's telling that we're spending literally a tenth of that on Homeland Security...