'I've got this down,'' Michael Chertoff boasted to aides last weekend as he staved off questions on television about handling the Katrina disaster. It turned out that the secretary of Homeland Security did not begin to have it ''down'' when he subsequently was interrogated by Tim Russert on NBC's ''Meet the Press.'' Chertoff's miserable performance on the air reflected a fiasco at all levels of government.
Robert Novak at the Chicago Sun Times (requires registration, but it's worth it.)
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