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FEMA disregarded its own hurricane response plans by not allowing the Interior Department and other federal and local agencies to aid in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit.
A couple who wrote a large-sum check to pay off their credit card bill raised the alarm with the DHS. The transaction was delayed while the feds analyzed it.
Chertoff - deliberately or through sheer incompetence - delayed the federal response to Katrina by days, potentially causing unneeded casualties on a catastrophic scale.