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…BROWN: Well, a lot of anger because I recall telling Secretary Chertoff back in 2004 and 2005 that this country was not ready for a catastrophic event. I had been to the tsunami in southeast Asia, and I came back and I told the president and I told Chertoff that we’re not ready. We don’t have the plans, the processes in place to do this.
And I think two years later, when we look at these photographs, it’s proof that we’re not ready for this kind of thing. And I think, too, when you look at — right now, they’re trying to redo the natural response plan. This is the fifth rewrite of this thing since DHS was created. We’re in the middle of hurricane season, they put one out without even talking to state and local governments. It shows that DHS is just completely dysfunctional.