The Katrina Debate

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Top Defense and Homeland Security Officials Shun Email

They Haven’t Got Mail - The Katrina hearings haven’t only revealed critical information about White House responses to the hurricane. They’ve also uncovered the online secrets of Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff: "...congressional investigations of government responses to Hurricane Katrina have revealed that two of the nation's key crisis managers, the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security, do not use e-mail...Spokesmen for the two officials maintain that Rumsfeld and Chertoff were kept informed during Katrina the same way as they keep in touch during other crises: through aides and a variety of other communications methods..."
House Releases Lengthy, Scathing Report on Govt's Flawed Response to Katrina, and other related postings on Katrina. Source: | beSpacific