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I had been watching CNN and MSNBC almost all day, and they were documenting the fact that people were starving to death at the Convention Center since morning. Then, late in the afternoon I heard this interview with the head of DHS:

Robert Siegel: We are hearing from our reporter, he’s on another line right now, thousands of people at the convention center in New Orleans with no food, zero.

Chertoff: As I said, I’m telling you we are getting food and water to areas where people are staging. The one about an episode like this is if you talk to someone or you get a rumor or an anecdotal version of something I think it’s dangerous to extrapolate it all over the place.

[Snip]

Robert Siegel: But Mr. Secretary when you say we shouldn’t listen to rumors. These are things coming from reporters who have not only covered many many other hurricanes, they’ve covered wars and refugee camps. These aren’t rumors, they are saying there are thousands of people there.

Chertoff: I would be…I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don’t have food and water.

Had he not heard? It was ALL over the news. No one told him? No one briefed him? A man who brushes off facts as rumors is clearly completely out of the loop, or spending entirely too much time in front of microphones spinning what's really happening. What is frightening, but most telling, is that he really is getting updated from his people on the ground and they have absolutely no idea of what's going on either. This is an indication that the Federal relief effort is in utter chaos. When Robert Siegel and I know more than the head of the Homeland Security Department, we've got problems people. And a loud Huzzah! goes out to Robert for tossing aside his "rumor" dodge. Yeah, blame it on "rumors" because your head is so far up your ass you can pull out your own colon pollops with your teeth, you fucking jackass...

Under this administration, this guy has a promotion coming...

posted by FuzzFinger @ 9/01/2005 10:09:00 PM