Official In Charge of Responding to the Oil Spill Was Official In Charge of Responding to Hurricane Katrina

Washington’s Blog
May 3, 2010

	Adm. Thad W. Allen.

I have provided a balanced overview of the oil spill.

I have tried to diffuse partisan comparisons of the oil spill with Hurricane Katrina.

But I just read something which is making me lose my composure a tad.

As the New York Times reports:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she was changing the federal leadership of the oil spill operations. Adm. Thad W. Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard, is now directly overseeing the work of Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, who had been in charge of the response. Admiral Allen was in charge of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

The same guy who oversaw the brilliant government response to Katrina is overseeing its response to the Gulf oil spill?

Well, that’s confidence-inspiring …

This article was posted: Monday, May 3, 2010 at 5:59 am

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