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Remember how the Republicans tried to cover up the federal response to Katrina by spreading blame to local officials – including the mayor and Democratic Governor of Louisiana?

Well, the story making small headlines in the “liberal media” recently (other than the White House withholding information from the congressional investigation panel) is the latest from the Government Office of Accountability:

For the first time, a nonpartisan government investigation Wednesday put principal blame on Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not lower-level officials, for the fumbled response to Hurricane Katrina.

The Government Accountability Office, an independent agency of Congress, said in its preliminary report that Chertoff had failed to move quickly to mobilize resources despite advance warnings that Katrina was likely to be a devastating storm. And, the report said, Chertoff's failure to name an individual to spearhead the response was a prime factor in the delays and confusion that followed.

Read on here.