Project Katrina

This story in the Times-Picayune should be filed under the tell us something we don’t already know category.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff acknowledged "many lapses" in the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina during a contentious Senate hearing Wednesday in which lawmakers slammed him for failing to properly direct disaster-response teams that "ran around like Keystone Kops."
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Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Chertoff failed President Bush by not warning him that Michael Brown, who directed the rescue efforts as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "was in way over his head." Chertoff’s failure to tell his commander-in-chief what "all of America" already knew, Coleman said, led Bush to make his now infamous remark five days after the hurricane hit: "Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job."